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Magic Leap has raised over $800m in its latest funding round. Forbes reports the augmented reality start-up raised $827m in Series C funding, bringing the company’s total investment to more than $1.4bn. The report cities filings obtained via a private market data tracker. The news has yet to be confirmed …
Read More »Why new VC firm Presence Capital is focused on virtual reality start-ups
$10m inaugural funding will be investing in VR and AR projects that could 'transform the world'
Read More »Amazon granted augmented reality patents
Reflector-based depth mapping and object tracking systems outline headset-free solution for living room
Read More »Alex McDowell to keynote first Vision VR/AR Summit
Production designer behind Watchmen, Man of Steel and Minority Report to lead new conference in February
Read More »$3k HoloLens dev kits will start shipping early next year
Microsoft will start shipping dev kits for its augmented reality headset HoloLens during the first quarter of 2016. It will start accepting applications for pre-orders in January. Each dev kit will cost $3,000, with a limit of two devices per application. Dev kits will initially only be shipped to the …
Read More »Skylanders Battlecast brings physical decks to the card-battling genre
Activision has announced a new iOS and Android card battling game that will integrate real-world playing cards. Skylanders Battlecast offers traditional online PvP as well as a single player campaign. Players will be able to add to their card collections either by scanning real-life cards or by purchasing in-game digital …
Read More »Unity launching VR and AR conference next year
Vision Summit will be held in Hollywood in February 2016
Read More »Analyst speculates that Nintendo NX could be the first ‘social VR’ platform
Nintendo has not been shy in downplaying virtual reality’s social credentials – but perhaps this is exactly the reason why its new NX console WILL be a VR machine. That’s the conclusion drawn by financial analyst Digi-Capital, which reckons that either virtual reality or augmented reality could be the next …
Read More »Hololens will not be games-centric at launch
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that the early days of Hololens will not be focused on the handset’s gaming credentials. For sure in the first version, it’s going to be more about developers and enterprise scenarios,” he told ZDnet. Gaming will always be a scenario and there will be …
Read More »Neil Young: ‘VR and AR won’t take off for three to five years’
Industry veteran highlights the many barriers both technologies face before they will achieve mass adoption
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