VR Training Company Gemba Secures $18M Series A to Expand Enterprise Metaverse
Gemba, the corporate VR learning platform, announced it’s closed an $18 million Series A funding round, which the company says will be used to continue expansion into Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America. The latest funding round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, now valuing the UK-based company at $60 million. In 2017, Gemba […]

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Lenovo Unveils Mixed Reality Headset For Businesses

Enterprise VR gets an upgrade in the form of a new standalone device. Multinational technology company Lenovo today unveiled the ThinkReality VRX, an all-in-one mixed reality headset designed for businesses. The enterprise-focused device boasts high-resolution colored passthrough, advanced pancake (folded) optics, and supports cloud-based rendering solutions like NVIDIA CloudXR. As previously mentioned, the ThinkReality VRX is […]

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Varjo Launches Its XR Cloud Streaming Platform, Support for Unity & Unreal Planned
Varjo today announced the launch of Varjo Reality Cloud, the company’s XR cloud streaming platform that’s aimed at making XR more scalable in enterprise settings by doing the heavy lifting of rendering in the cloud. At the outset the company is targeting the automotive industry, but plans to enable enterprises more broadly with support for […]

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HP Announces VR Headset Management Tool for Large-scale Deployments
HP appears to be strengthening its position as a provider of XR software for enterprise companies. Today it announced the release of a mobile device management (MDM) solution that’s designed to make deploying and managing large-scale VR easier. Called HP ExtendXR, the software as a service (SaaS) was built in collaboration with ArborXR, an AR/VR […]

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Facebook’s Metaverse Takes a Baby Step with Customizable ‘Horizon Workrooms’ Environments
Facebook launched Horizon Workrooms back in summer, bringing to Quest a new enterprise-focused virtual collaboration platform that connects both VR and video chat users in the same place. Soon the app will let you choose from different environments which will be customizable to some degree—a prescient step on the way to Facebook’s vision of its metaverse. […]

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Facebook Rebooting VR Enterprise Offering, Bringing Business Tools to Consumer Quest Headsets
At Facebook Connect 2021 today, the company announced it will be releasing a new Quest for Business program that’s rebooting its enterprise-focused VR software by bringing its growing suite of business tools to the consumer version of Quest 2, which you can buy from anywhere. Facebook will be allowing what it calls ‘Work Accounts’ for […]

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Immerse says VR training could help deal with the ‘great resignation’

The great resignation is rippling through the American workforce. Virtual reality training is one of things that might put a halt to it. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Dean Takahashi

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Immerse says VR training could help deal with the ‘great resignation’

The great resignation is rippling through the American workforce. Virtual reality training is one of things that might put a halt to it. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Dean Takahashi

‘Shariiing VR’ Adds an Incredibly Useful Tool to SteamVR That We’d Love to See in All Headsets
Shariiing VR is a piece of add-on software for SteamVR which allows an outside user to annotate a VR user’s view in real-time, which can be incredibly useful for helping new VR users once they’re inside the headset. It’s so simple that we’d love to see the capability come to every headset. If you’ve ever […]

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Varjo Teases Its “biggest announcement ever” Coming Later This Week
Varjo, the Finland-based company making enterprise headsets with industry-leading specs, is getting ready to reveal something big on June 24th. Urho Konttori, Varjo founder and Chief Product Officer, teased that the company’s next reveal will be “so epic that it’s probably the biggest announce ever by Varjo.” Our biggest announce this year is about to […]

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