Tag: virtual reality

November 2, 2022

In the last decade, advancements in technology have reshaped how retail companies do business. Following COVID-19, new and immersive technologies like virtual reality (VR), extended reality (XR) and mixed reality (MR) are changing consumer behavior, employee expectations and the shopping […]

June 7, 2017

Yahoo Japan has invested an undisclosed amount of money in The Venture Reality Fund, which is focused on making investments in virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. The two firms also aim to accelerate growth in the AR and […]

May 10, 2017

Virtual reality and augmented reality are still in their infancy. But with hundreds of companies, tens of thousands of employees, and over $4 billion in investments to date, the industry is taking a big swing at the future success of VR […]

April 11, 2017

Virtual reality needs analytics to show developers where people are visiting in virtual worlds. And Virtualitics has raised $4.4 million to provide analytics for VR and augmented reality applications. Pasadena, Calif.-based Virtualitics has created data visualization and analytics tools for […]

January 19, 2017

HTC has launched a $10 million virtual reality fund for content and technologies that will drive sustainable development around the world. Taiwan-based HTC makes the HTC Vive VR headset, and its VR for Impact program was unveiled at the World […]

November 29, 2016

There are lots of brands out there that pledge to give back to good causes. But it’s rare that customers actually get to see first hand what kind of an impact their purchase makes. That’s where GIMME360 is trying to […]

November 2, 2016

The U.S. virtual reality market will grow gradually in the next two years, but then growth will kick in and the industry will hit $38 billion in revenues by 2026, according to a forecast by Greenlight Insights. The forecast was […]

April 15, 2016

Virtual Reality (VR) was once the type of thing you’d see in the movies or hear about occurring in the very distant future but many of us have already experienced forms of this. There’s a huge debate raging in the […]

April 8, 2016

Market researcher Strategy Analytics said it expects global virtual reality headset revenues will reach $895 million in 2016. About 77 percent of that value will be accounted for by newly launched premium devices from Oculus, HTC and Sony. These three brands […]

March 1, 2016

Virtual reality is still in its early days, but it’s amazing how capable it is of making your bank account look a lot less impressive. HTC revealed today that is has sold more than 15,000 HTC Vive VR kits in […]