Tag: Virtual reality
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AmazeVR Raises $15 Million to Bring Music Fans Virtual Reality Concerts With Artists Like Megan Thee Stallion
AmazeVR, a West Hollywood-based virtual reality startup that allows users to experience musical artists’ VR concerts, has secured $15 million in new funding.The funding round was co-led by Partners Investment and Murex Partners and was oversubscribed …
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First VR Device for Pain Gets FDA Approval
For the first time, a virtual reality device received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to address pain.Los Angeles-based therapeutic virtual reality startup AppliedVR’s device to ease chronic lower back pain gained FDA approval this week…
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AppliedVR Raises $36 Million to Combat Chronic Pain Without Opioids
When Matthew Stoudt co-founded AppliedVR in 2015, few were talking about using virtual reality as a way to treat pain. Now, the Los Angeles-based startup is awaiting approval from the Food and Drug Administration for one of its signature products …
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What It’s Like to Turn Yourself Into a Hologram
Standing in a Century City WeWork, I watched as an eerily lifelike hologram was beamed in and silence filled the room. Once a technology reserved for theater, holograms have become cheaper and more accessible for the masses. So as Zoom became the defa…
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Behind the Scenes of The Rattle’s Secretive Artist Co-Op
The Rattle opened a studio in Silver Lake last year, which it operates as something between a startup accelerator, art co-op, coworking space and venture studio. Its goal is to rethink the way musicians and artists are compensated for creating somethi…
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A New Breed of Clinical Study Emerges After FDA OKs Virtual Trials
As the pandemic slowed and halted clinical trials to test new drugs, the need for a virtual solution became clear to clinical researchers. El Segundo-based Lightship hopes to keep clinical trials going with a virtual process that allows patients to pa…
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Forget Opioids, Virtual Reality Could Be the Future of Pain Management
It’s hard to overstate just how painful a process treating burn victims is – for burn victims, air itself is excruciatingly painful. They have to undergo weeks of undressing wounds, cleaning the tender skin of debris, slathering the area with ointment…
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ForeVR Games Turns Sports into Virtual Reality Experiences
The maker of a bowling virtual reality game that takes the sport to the moon, ForeVR Games wants to turn real-life sports into virtual reality experiences. And it just got a big boost. The Los Angeles-based VR gaming startup announced Tuesday that it …
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Bitmoji Gets an Upgrade as Snapchat Doubles Down on Fashion
Bitmojis are getting an upgrade on Snapchat with a new 3-D design that rolls out Monday.Snap Inc. is decking out its avatars with more than 1,200 combinations of poses, gestures and backgrounds like cow prints and beach locations. The new avatars are…