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Igloo Vision creates virtual reality set pieces on a large scale with the goal to get as close to one big VR headset as possible for groups of up to 750 people! In April, Shropshire-based immersive technology startup Igloo Vision announced that it raised £435,000 in funding with the government’s Enterprise Investment Scheme. This funding will be used not only to develop its existin...
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SwimAR, a lightweight, hydrodynamic training device using augmented reality that attaches to normal swimming goggles. In keeping with our recent uptick in coverage of virtual reality and augmented reality startups, today we’re going swimming. With augmented reality.  Swimmers in training need to know their swim data to know what they need to improve on, what their strengths and weakne...
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Vr Revival provides an interactive and personalised platform for an uplifting social experience using a virtual reality app and headset for people with dementia. Virtual reality can be used for the obvious fun and games, but as we have highlighted over recent months, it can also be used as a tool for making work safer and easier, and a device through which to improve lives. We have written before...
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Holomeeting - The lowdown on the startup that is helping to create the office of the future and using mixed reality to enable its users to collaborate, communicate and create like never before... Whilst more and more of us are working remotely, we generally all still need to collaborate and work with others. Therefore there is an ever growing need to find innovative ways to help us do just t...
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The Virti simulation platform puts users in a range of realistic simulations designed by healthcare professionals, testing their decision-making ability and knowledge.  Virtual reality is going to be a big part of the future and a big part of training students, new employees, teaching new skills to existing employees, and so on. The research tells us that VR not only reduces training costs b...
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Dual Good Health - The health tech startup that's using virtual reality to teach CPR in an entirely innovative way...Basic skills for helping to keep people alive in an emergency - most notably, CPR - are not ones that are taught in school. They aren’t taught as a routine part of college or university. They aren’t even taught when you join the workforce. Everybody thinks they’d ...
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Ibrahim Farook, Founder of edtech startup Bright Idea Education and Bright Idea Enterprise, chatted to Startacus at Digital DNA 2018 about his passion for making a real difference for people with dyslexia, and his mission to empower the next generation, by digitalising education, using AR and VR. Ibrahim Farook, Founder of Bright Idea Education and Bright Idea Enterprise, is a proud Dys...
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Kodama - The innovative French startup that's making 3D creation easier than ever before with their 3D game system that offers everybody a new way to interact with screens. The world of 3D design is evolving. Simply sitting with a mouse or tablet and stylus, building 3D objects on a 2D plane is all well and good, but what if all you have to do to go from working on your charac...
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Gravity Sketch - 3D Design made even easier thanks to this London based startup and its intuitive multi-platform 3D creation tool  We’re all familiar (apart from Dave that is) with the intricate process of 3D design, for sure. All the polygons and the...vertices, and the...so on. At some point we’ve all rubbed our strained eyes and wished there was a better, easier, quicker way t...
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Virtual reality allows you to detach from your physical surroundings and interact with a digital environment. The technology creates specific software environments that allow people to become so immersed it replaces awareness of their actual surroundings.  The technology has been around for years now and while originally used in gaming, it's gaining ground in many other areas. Ironically, it...
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