| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.03.2022 | The Value Of The Metaverse: Why Your Company Should Explore The Future Of The Internet | Hayes is CEO of 8i — end-to-end volumetric video technology that captures, transforms and streams 3D holograms to any device in the world. |
| 14.10.2021 | 8i shows off its real-time holograms | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Today 8i showed off its technology for quickly rendering volumetric video for real-time hologram images. The Venice, California-based c... |
| 14.10.2021 | 8i shows off its real-time holograms | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
Today 8i showed off i... |
| 14.10.2021 | 8i Announces the Launch of Real-Time Holograms, an Industry First | Capture, Transform, Stream Holograms are no longer the stuff of science fiction.
VENICE, Calif. (PRWEB) October 14, 2021
8i, the market leader in the capture, transformation, and streaming of holograms (aka volumetric video or 3D video), to... |
| 05.01.2021 | Omnivor raises $2.7M as pandemic spurs interest in holographic media from Nike, T-Mobile, others | Investors are putting more fuel behind Omnivor, a Seattle startup gaining traction with its 3D holographic content media production platform.
Sway Ventures led a $2.7 million seed round, which included participation from Kernel Labs, the Se... |
| 06.02.2019 | Future of video? Watch our first interview shot with volumetric tech, with help from a Seattle startup | To rotate the figure click, hold, and drag.
I need to sit up straight.
That was my first reaction after watching GeekWire’s first-ever interview done in volumetric video.
Last month we had a chance to sit down with Adam Kirk, CEO of Omnivor... |
| 17.01.2018 | Volumetric photogrammetry — big words, bigger impact on VR | Ben Bloch Contributor
Ben Bloch is a Los Angeles-based serial entrepreneur. He is best known for his focus on emerging business opportunities at IBM, followed by contributing his leadership in three startup exits, including clean-tech compa... |
| 15.12.2017 | Celebrity hologram startup 8i to lay off half its staff | 8i, the New Zealand and Los Angeles-based augmented reality startup bringing celebrity personalities into immersive experiences, is laying off about half of its 70-person staff, according to a report in Variety and confirmed by the company.... |
| 22.06.2017 | 8i lets you superimpose holographic characters into photos with Holo mobile app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Holographic tech startup 8i is launching its Holo mobile app, which enables you to add 3D holograms of people and animated characters i... |
| 22.06.2017 | 8i lets you superimpose holographic characters into photos with Holo mobile app | Holographic tech startup 8i is launching its Holo mobile app, which enables you to add 3D holograms of people and animated characters into your real-world photos and videos. You can, for instance, take a hologram of Spider-Man and add him i... |
| 14.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, February 14 | OPEN MIC
It’s feedback time.
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| 14.02.2017 | 8i Raises US$27m in Series B Funding | 8i, a Wellington, New Zealand, and Los Angeles, CA-based company that develops holographic technology for virtual and augmented reality, raised US$27m in Series B funding.
The new round, which brought total funding to $41m, was led by Time ... |
| 13.02.2017 | 8i raises $27 million round for augmented reality holograms | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Holographic-tech startup 8i is announcing that it has raised $27 million from media, tech, and telecommunications strategic investors. ... |
| 13.02.2017 | Time Warner leads $27M investment in celebrity hologram company 8i | For the celebrity-obsessed, augmented reality may offer the bizarre opportunity to get closer than ever to pop culture’s most recognizable stars and performers.
For the last several years, 8i has been embracing a technology called volumetri... |
| 23.11.2016 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, November 23 | ET CETERA
A few brief notes before the holiday begins…
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| 13.10.2016 | Buzz Aldrin stars in VR messages that will keep Mars astronauts from being lonely | Excitement is building about a possible manned mission to Mars, and virtual reality is going to play a role. Startup 8i and Time Inc. announced a partnership to bring holographic messages from former astronaut Buzz Aldrin and musician Reggi... |
| 13.10.2016 | Buzz Aldrin stars in VR messages that will keep Mars astronauts from being lonely | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Excitement is building about a possible manned mission to Mars, and virtual reality is going to play a role. Startup 8i and Time Inc. a... |
| 14.07.2016 | Stop referring to Pokémon Go as augmented reality | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
You won’t get far today without actually bumping into a smartphone-addicted zombie playing Pokémon Go, the hit mobile title from Google... |
| 24.05.2016 | The reality of augmented and virtual reality venture capital | Tim Merel Contributor
Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital.
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Will Apple, Facebook or Microsoft be the future of augmented reality?
VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper)
AR/VR is the ne... |
| 11.02.2016 | Who Will Own The Virtual Reality Interface? | Linc Gasking Contributor
Linc Gasking is founder and CEO of 8i.
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Who Will Own The Virtual Reality Interface?
Virtual reality and augmented reality are having a moment.
Last month, both multimedia formats had a ... |
| 21.01.2016 | The Future Of Virtual Reality Lies Beyond Gaming | Guest author Richard MacManus is the founder of ReadWrite. This article originally appeared in his Augment Intelligence newsletter.
If you’re thinking that virtual reality (VR) is all about gaming, then think again.
Are you a sports fan? Th... |
| 08.01.2016 | The Value In Virtual And Augmented Reality | Linc Gasking Contributor
Linc Gasking is founder and CEO of 8i.
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Who Will Own The Virtual Reality Interface?
In 2015, the virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) industry was widely heralded as the next... |
| 04.01.2016 | 8i unveils web VR player for its 3D imagery of people | 8i announced today it has launched a web player, the 8i Portal, for its volumetric 3D video of people in virtual reality.
Using 8i’s technology and VR goggles, you’ll be able to walk around a person inside a virtual environment to see their... |
| 29.12.2015 | 6 ways virtual reality will shape up in 2016 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The VRX event last month in San Francisco brought together 500 of the top executives in the VR space across gaming, entertainment and b... |
| 29.12.2015 | 6 ways virtual reality will shape up in 2016 | The VRX event last month in San Francisco brought together 500 of the top executives in the VR space across gaming, entertainment and brand marketing to demonstrate the latest hardware, unreleased content and real-world uses of virtual real... |
| 16.12.2015 | The big startup trend for 2016 is… | Virtual reality technology is set for a “big boom”, opening up huge opportunities for Australian startups going into next year, Virtual Reality Ventures managing director Stefan Pernar says.
With investment flowing and the hardware finally ... |
| 09.12.2015 | 8i’s new 3D virtual reality video tech lets you see people from any direction | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
8i announced today that it has created volumetric 3D video of people in virtual reality. This means you’ll be able to see a person insi... |
| 09.12.2015 | 8i’s new 3D virtual reality video tech lets you see people from any direction | 8i announced today that it has created volumetric 3D video of people in virtual reality. This means you’ll be able to see a person inside a virtual environment using VR goggles. And you’ll be able to walk around them and see the entire pers... |
| 27.11.2015 | Founders Fund on Its Processes, Deal Flow, and Newest Big Bets | Founders Fund, founded 10 years ago, wasted little time in establishing itself as a venture firm that’s willing to make unusual and often outsize bets.
Recently, at the their San Francisco offices, we sat down with the firm’s chief scientis... |
| 15.10.2015 | 8i Raises $13.5M in Venture Capital Funding | 8i, a Wellington, New Zealand-based virtual reality startup, raised $13.5m in funding.
Backers included RRE Ventures, Founders Fund Science, Horizons Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, Samsung Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures, Bertelsmann Di... |
| 14.10.2015 | 8i Raises $13.5M To Chase The Human Side Of Virtual Reality | There I stood, about a foot away from a mother and her newborn baby. The mother was talking to her daughter in a video captured in virtual reality for the child to see one day when she’s older. It was realistic. Almost scarily so. I was abl... |
