Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2019

Mindesk , a startup developing a platform for real-time CAD collaboration in AR/VR, today announced a $900,000 seed round from HTC Vive, Barcamper Ventures, A11 Venture and Invitalia Ventures. Last November the company participated in Autodesk University, where they unveiled an integration with Unreal Editor in partnership with Epic Games.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Passing by this discreetly placed booth at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, you’d have no idea this was home to HBO’s first internally built experience in VR. It leverages Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 and is built to run natively on HTC’s Vive headset system.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. A new, strategic partnership between Warner Bros. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Just like last year, they will run essentially concurrently again in and around the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. What to Expect from HTC.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) is kicking off tomorrow at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Owlchemy Labs, founded in 2010, has raised $5 million in seed funding from Capital Factory, Qualcomm Ventures, Colopl VR Fund, HTC and The Venture Reality Fund. Read more here. Read more here. 3) Vivid Vision said today it has raised $2.2 million in a seed round to build VR tools that could be used to treat eye problems known as “lazy eye.”San

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Filling up the halls of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, GDC has been a big event for the VR industry over the past few years, but it is seeing something of an explosion this year, which runs from February 27th – March 3rd. : Tuesday, February 28th, 10:00am – 11:00am. Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC).

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