Developer Spaces Dedicated to AR And VR Are Becoming More Popular Than Ever
[Philip Lelyveld comment: The author completely deleted the Rothenberg Ventures space from the history books and choose not to mention Los Angeles, which is a major global hub for consumer, industrial, and location-based VR and AR development - especially in the holostic tech+content experience space and in all of the deals and strategic alliances with Asian groups and investors. Interesting choices.]
One of the first VR spaces was the Upload Collective in San Francisco, which launched at the beginning of the year as a hybrid coworking space and incubator. It has the unique resource of having Robert Scoble nearby as Upload’s entrepreneur in residence, and its incubator program includes mentors like VR pioneer Tony Parisi and Marco DeMiroz, General Partner at the Virtual Reality Fund.
The Realities Centre debuted in London earlier this month, a coworking space devoted to VR, AR, and MR makers with an incubator program that will launch in early 2017.
The World VR Forum in Geneva is set to officially open its VR lab next month, run in partnership with two production companies, Freestudios and Masé Studios, offering coaching, equipment, and postproduction facilities for selected projects.
“It’s time to foster and federate talent, investors, and the Swiss audiovisual industry in order to promote a Swiss VR excellence.” Sophie Sallin, Head of the World VR Forum’s VR Lab program, told me.
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