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Virtual and augmented reality investment at 2013 levels in first quarter

Venture Beast

The first quarter of this year saw AR/VR investment volume at a quarterly level last seen back in 2013, and even with COVID-19, it could be a trend. Read More.

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Facebook acquires Seattle virtual reality gaming company BigBox VR, makers of Population: One

GeekWire

Seattle startup BigBox VR , the company behind multiplayer virtual reality game POPULATION: ONE , has been acquired by Facebook. Super excited about creating the future of VR + social + games! It served as a test of sorts to see how online multiplayer would work in virtual reality. GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper).

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For the love of gaming: Husband and wife co-founders raise $2.6M for social platform Game Jolt

GeekWire

Eight years after they left Zulily to concentrate full time on their social platform for gamers, husband and wife co-founders Yaprak and David DeCarmine are growing Seattle-based Game Jolt and raising new funding. “We’re building the social community platform for gamers and the types of content they love.”

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Nonprofit takes D&D digital to help kids who struggle socially, and to study its own impact

GeekWire

The founders of the nonprofit had gathered heaps of anecdotal evidence that tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons could help kids who struggled socially — whether they had autism, ADHD, anxiety or other challenges — learn to more successfully interact with others. It seems, instead, that they shook their die and rolled a virtual 20.

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Links for July 21 2013

Eric D. Brown

Creating an Open, Transparent Organization through Social | Enterprise Social Software Blog | Socialtext. Quote : Not only can social break down the walls between departments, but a social solution can help break down the hierarchies too. Sunday Links CIO Innovation social' So You Want To Write A Digital Strategy?

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Links for August 11 2013

Eric D. Brown

Quote : The small business often has the advantage of proximity to their customers, but this proximity also means that it may be difficult to "see the wood for the trees" Yet thanks to new social, mobile and connected technologies, there is much a small business can do to identify new areas of value in their products and services.

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VMworld 2013 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote for VMworld 2013. From there, she launches into a discussion of the “customer virtualization journey”; it’s the same 3-step journey of IT production, business production, and IT-as-a-Service that we’ve heard about for several years. and vCloud Suite 5.5.

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