CES 2021 moves to a fully digital party from January 6 to 9, 2021, extending COVID’s winning streak on the most productive aircraft. It is very likely that the online editing is a shadow of itself. Expect to hum Zoom webinars, online product demos, and a handful of virtual truth side events. The good news is that many people, millions of people, will be able to attend.
While CES and every other conference has been laid low by the virus, Telehealth, long primed to explode, has blasted off, as need has finally overcome institutional obstacles.
Telefitness Ro’s new company gets $200 million in C Series funds. Ro, now in unicorn territory, worth more than $1.5 billion, operates virtual fitness clinics for the physical conditioning of men and women, and will use the budget to increase care and expand operations with remote patient surveillance, urgent care and chronic disease management.
Telehealth startup Heal Collects $100 million in Series D funding. The investment round comes from health insurance company Humana, and brings the company’s total investment to $200 million. Since the Covid outbreak Heal has seen its telemedicine services grow 800% and house calls have increased over 30%. Heal will use the funding to expand into more markets centered around major US cities.
More than a million people paid for tickets to the Tomorrowland virtual music festival. The occasion took over last weekend with tickets for the occasion that were sold for between 12.50 and 20 euros. The pay-per-view virtual festival featured more than 60 artists, adding Katy Perry, Amelie Lens, David Guetta, Martin Garrix and Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike. It was built using Unreal Engine, which was recently used to create a patriotic cellular AR occasion in the case of Finland’s National Independence Day, which attracted 700,000 other people worldwide. Prediction: Very soon, another 40 million people will pay $10 to see Taylor Swift get Travis Scott’s remedy in Fortnite, thus turning the music industry.
Facebook is launching video conferences. Google and Facebook are coming to get their Zoom users with loose offers, but you still don’t know if it works. Skype Enterprise is now a component of Office365 and Google Meet is blocked unsealed in the Gmail interface.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is Japan’s biggest hit this year. Este global virtual virtual de tipo 3-d Switch en Second Life se ha extendido como Hello Kitty y ha vendido cinco millones de sets en Japón en Japón. Five times more than the best-selling game of the moment in Japan, Final Fantasy 7.
Polyarc, author of Moss, has closed $9 million B-Series funding for the progression of AR games. The tour was conducted through Hiro Capital, followed by Vulcan Capital and Galaxy Interactive. Polyarc will delight in creating Moss to create a narrative-based AR game. XR content turns out to be back in favor.
LG uses ultra-soft AR glasses in partnership with NTT DoCoMo from Japan. As GioGlass revealed last week, LG Designs will not be unveiled until 2021. The company stated that the glasses were intended for hands-free videoconferencing and were almost as soft as a pair of normal glasses. It’s a bit of a puzzle. There’s going to have to be cameras in front of the participants somewhere, right? Are they avateering? Or do your glasses release a small drone camera for the film’s remote participants?
Fox fills empty stadiums full of enthusiasts who employ augmented reality. Fox Sports partners with Silver Spoon Animation to fill empty sports stadiums with virtual baseball games for enthusiasts using Epic’s Unreal engine. It was in the laughing aspect of the strange valley. Honestly, this has been described as an experiment.
AfterNow launches the beta edition of its XR AfterNow Prez Remote collaboration tool. The app works on Oculus and Microsoft HMD and aims to publicize zoom collaboration and fatigue. You can sign up for the beta here.
JigSpace has noticed a 900% increase in the number of users of its JigSpace Workshop platform since the Covid outbreak. JigSpace Workshop is designed for a simple presentation of augmented reality of three-dimensional resources, whether for marketing, education or more.
Blippar expands its control team with Emma Witkowski and Steve Doyle. Both recruits come from decades of delight in the most sensible agencies that operate with brands such as Facebook, Nissan, Lionsgate, Nordstrom and Nestlé.
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“This Week in XR” is written and edited with Michael Eichenseer.
Forbes contributor Charlie Fink is the Author of “Remote Collaboration & Virtual Conferences, The Future of Work” (2020), “Convergence” (2019) and “Charlie Fink’s
Forbes contributor Charlie Fink is the Author of “Remote Collaboration & Virtual Conferences, The Future of Work” (2020), “Convergence” (2019) and “Charlie Fink’s Metaverse” (2017). In the early 90s, Fink was EVP & COO of VR pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. Previously, he was VP of Disney Feature Animation Story Development (85-92), SVP & CCO of AOL Studios (‘95-’99), and President and CCO of American Greetings and Blue Mountain.com (‘00-’05). He teaches XR at Chapman University in Orange, CA.