August 30th, 2018If one thing has become clear about virtual reality in the last two years, it’s that it’s going to take time to develop into what we all want it to be. Right off the bat VR was capable of some awfully impressive things, and it has definitely gotten better over the course of roughly two-and-a-half years of public attention. Even now...
February 23rd, 2018iB Cricket , a revolutionary Virtual Reality Cricket Sport (vSport), developed by ProYuga Advanced Technologies was launched in the presence of the Hon’ble President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind. He played the first ball of iB Cricket, which is going to be released worldwide in April 2018.
It was all smiles when President of India...
February 22nd, 2018Facebook users should gear up for some stimulating news. The Facebook Inc.’s Andrew Bosworth, head of virtual and augmented reality products and hardware, announced that the social media company will make its "biggest AR/VR news" to date at the upcoming Facebook Developer (F8) Conference in May.
Under 70 days to go...
December 14th, 2017Start-up Village Collective, in association with Facebook, will partner academic institutions to train students on latest technologies developing globally, starting with virtual reality technology.
"Most of the companies work with US universities to reach out to students and build innovative product and application on emerging...
December 4th, 2017Comic characters and story creator for digital and mobile platform startup Graphic India Pte Ltd has raised $5 million funding from Liquid Comics LLC. Start Media LLC, 3One4 Capital, Julian Farrior, co-founder of Backflip Studios Inc., and Neeraj Bhargava, founder of Zodius Capital were also present in the round.
The raised...
November 27th, 2017Cricket master-blaster Sachin Tendulkar backed virtual reality gaming startup Smaaash has raised $3.8 million funding from VC firm Sixth Sense Ventures.
Mumbai based investor firm has invested this money which is the part of a larger round spread over by the next week. Post these rounds, the gaming startup is expected to reach a...
October 10th, 2017Palo Alto, California and Bengaluru based startup GridRaster, bagged a seed funding of $2 million from a clutch of investors including Exfinity Ventures, Lumia Capital, Pipeline Capital, NexStar Partners, Unshackled Ventures and Explorer Group.
The startup works on enabling high-end virtual and augmented reality experiences on...
October 9th, 2017Scientists have developed a new technology that allows users to interact in a virtual reality environment using only mouth gestures such as a smile.
The proliferation of affordable virtual reality head- mounted displays provides users with realistic immersive visual experiences.
However, head-mounted displays occlude the upper half...
April 18th, 2017Absentia, a bengaluru based virtual reality startup raised Rs 8 crore in a pre-series-A round. Investors like Exfinity Venture Partners, former Infosys executives V Balakrishnan and Mohandas Pai, Deepak Ghaisas and Girish Paranjpe participated in the round of funding.
The company will use this fund to build Norah AI, an artificial...
July 6th, 2016Mumbai-based virtual reality content studio SpectraVR has raised an undisclosed amount as seed funding from US-based technology venture capital firm Rothenberg Ventures.
SpectraVR is a virtual reality media production and technology startup, the first in this space in India. It was founded by Sushant Baliga and is specialized in...