Move Over Google Glass: meta 1 Turns Augmented Reality To 11
We’ve written numerous times about the Oculus Rift, a product by Oculus VR that gives video gamers a full virtual reality experience. Now a product called the meta 1 aims to bring virtual reality to...
View Article10 Questions for Oculus Rift CEO Palmer Luckey
The Oculus Rift is a stunning virtual-reality headset for gamers. In PopMech’s test, we found that “the experience is so immersive that it’s actually a bit disorienting.” Today, we sit down for a few...
View ArticleVR Gaming Gets Another Kickstarter: The Omni Gaming Treadmill
If you’re a regular visitor to Crowdfund Insider you’ve no doubt heard of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality gaming headset approved by grandmothers everywhere. Now the Rift’s logical companion is...
View ArticleOculus VR Working On HD, 4K Oculus Rift For Consumers
Oculus VR is a crowdfunding darling, having raised a $16 million Series A round on top of another $2.4 million on Kickstarter. Now the virtual reality gaming headset manufacturer is gearing up for...
View ArticleCrowdfunding News Roundup: November 2, 2013
Real Business | Crowdfunding know-how is key to growth This article in Real Business reiterates a handful of points on the subject of crowdfunding: businesses by and large don’t know what it is, they...
View ArticlecastAR Closes Funding On Kickstarter At $1.05 Million
Woodinville, Washington based Technical Illusions is celebrating today after the close of their wildly successful Kickstarter funding round. The company raised $1,052,110 for the castAR, a pair of...
View ArticleAvegant Glyph VR Headset Headed To Kickstarter January 2014, See Why...
6This could be big. Oculus VR launched the Oculus Rift on Kickstarter and went on to grab almost $2.5 million in funding. Some are saying that Avegant’s upcoming Glyph headset could surpass it. After...
View ArticleWATCH: Business Insider Staffers Amazed By The Oculus Rift
Business Insider recently got their hands on an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and tried some things like riding a virtual roller coaster and exploring the planets. Their reaction? Amazement...
View ArticleGizmodo’s Eric Limer On Oculus Rift: “It is going to change the world”
Oculus VR isn’t a stranger to rave reviews of the forthcoming Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset poised to be really disruptive in the video game industry. However, a recent piece in Gizmodo gives...
View ArticleOculus Rift: Best of CES Winner 2014
For anyone who has actually had the luck to try out the Oculus Rift this should not come as a surprise. The Oculus Rift “Crystal Cove” prototype has won the Best of CES 2104 prize. The accolades...
View ArticleValve, Oculus Rift Team Up In Effort To Make Steam A VR Gaming Leader [Deck]
@hugotheonly1 I’m a big fan if oculus, and will buy one but the valve demo really blew me away. VR is going to be amazing — David Hensley (@TheDavidHensley) January 16, 2014 Valve is a name that has...
View ArticleOn Kickstarter: Avegant Glyph Destroys Crowdfunding Goal In Under 48 Hours
Back in December, we noticed that there was a lot of hype around the Avegant Glyph and a forthcoming Kickstarter campaign that would accompany the launch of the device. It seems the hype was...
View ArticleVirtuix Crowdfunding For Equity On SeedInvest After Million-Dollar...
Virtuix found itself at the center of a revolutionary shift in the video game industry after they raised over $1.1 million on Kickstarter. The campaign funded the Virtuix Omni, an immersive...
View ArticleThe Oculus-Facebook Buyout: The Best Ad For Equity Crowdfunding Ever
I have written about the misconception by some members of the general public that equity crowdfunding and rewards-based crowdfunding are the same thing. Many people are misinformed and do not...
View ArticleANTVR Launches Crowdfunding Campaign on Kickstarter For New Universal Virtual...
Hoping to bring an Oculus alternative virtual reality system to the video gaming world, the company ANTVR launched a $200,000 crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for its all-in-one virtual reality...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Now: 5 Cool Projects For Father’s Day 2014
It seems, every year, kids young and old run to the store to find something special for their dads, but end up just giving him a tie or a sports-related item. This has even turned into a ritual of...
View ArticleElders React to Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Experience (Video)
As we struggle to fire up all cylinders back at the office after a long weekend of transition from late Summer to early Fall, we thought we would share an entertaining video showing “elders”...
View ArticleCanadian Company Hits Kickstarter With New Virtual Reality Headset The Totem
Earlier this month, Montreal-based Vrvana, Inc. launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $350,000 for its new full-featured virtual reality headset, Totem. The device is described as a...
View ArticleNimble Sense Brings Hands to Virtual Reality; Now Available to Early Backers...
On Tuesday (October 28th), San Francisco-based Nimble VR, a virtual reality technology company, launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Nimble Sense, the first depth sensing camera designed to...
View ArticleSeed&Spark Partners With Wemo.io to Launch Content Production Grant to...
Seed&Spark, a crowdfunding and distribution platform for independent filmmakers and Wemo.io, a virtual reality technology and platform company, today jointly launched a diversity-minded grants...
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