| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.09.2020 | With PUBG banned, WinZO looks to fill the void in Indian gaming – raises $18 million from top VCs | WinZO has raised $18 million from top global VCs – Singapore’s Makers fund and New York-based Courtside Ventures, both of whom are pioneers in gaming investments.
The startup has grown 15 times over the last 12 months, and since the pandemi... |
| 03.10.2019 | The Void reveals Avengers: Damage Control location-based VR experience | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After a tease in August that a Marvel-themed VR experience was coming to The Void’s virtual reality centers, the companies have confirm... |
| 02.08.2019 | This Week In XR: Unity In The Money, Free Roam Star Trek, AR[T] From Apple, More | The mega-IP "Star Trek" is coming to free roam LBVR SandboxVR as the chain, armed with a 70M ... [+] investment from Andressen-Horowitz, announces rapid expansion to 16 locations. SandboxVR |
| 29.07.2019 | The Museum of Future Experiences offers a spooky, surreal take on VR | Here’s what I knew when I visited the Museum of Future Experiences: The startup is part of the current batch of companies at Y Combinator, and it’s doing work with virtual reality. Beyond that, I had no idea what to expect.
The MoFE is curr... |
| 25.07.2019 | Location-based virtual reality goes to the mall as The Void plans a rollout in 25 more locations | The Void, a developer of immersive virtual reality entertainment centers, is partnering with the multinational, multihyphenate mall developer Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield to build 25 new locations around the world.
Location-based virtual reali... |
| 16.07.2019 | Report: James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems Invests $20 Million In VR Startup The Void | Lupa Systems — the venture capital arm led by former 21st Century Fox chairman James Murdoch — has reportedly invested $20 million in The Void
James Murdoch — the former CEO of 21st Century Fox, former chairman and CEO of News Corp, and you... |
| 17.03.2019 | Ralph Breaks VR hands-on — Going inside a 3D animated movie at The Void | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A lot of people saw Ralph Breaks the Internet last year, as it generated more than $500 million in film box office revenues. But how ma... |
| 17.03.2019 | Ralph Breaks VR hands-on — Going inside a 3D animated movie at The Void | A lot of people saw Ralph Breaks the Internet last year, as it generated more than $500 million in film box office revenues. But how many of those moviegoers got to step inside the movie?
That’s what I got to do in the Ralph Breaks VR exper... |
| 16.11.2018 | Wreck-It Ralph Smashes Into The VOID | Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph is a colorful blast of adventure, full of nostalgia. The film premiered in 2012 and was a huge success, grossing $471 million worldwide against a $165 million budget. It won the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature ... |
| 14.11.2018 | Wreck-It Ralph is getting a warehouse-sized VR experience at Disney parks | For the last year or so, Disney has been dabbling with massive virtual reality experiences that let players strap on a portable VR rig and run around in a warehouse-sized environment. In partnership with The VOID (part of Disney’s 2017 acce... |
| 05.07.2018 | VR arcades are playing a leading role in the consumer market | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The “VR hype cycle” used to explain the relatively slow rate of adoption for VR refers mostly to the consumer market, and in large part... |
| 06.06.2018 |
Qualcomm, Disney, UTA Back The VOID For VR Entertainment
| Three, Southern California investors--Qualcomm Ventures, Disney, and the United Talent Agency--have backed the developer of a network of "experience centers" focused on virtual reality entertainment, as part of a newly disclosed S... |
| 26.05.2018 | Location-based virtual reality is increasing its footprint in the U.S. | Earlier this year, in a small, grey-walled storefront inside a very large mall in Torrance, Calif. (just past the AMC Center) , the virtual reality game-maker Survios planted its first flag in the market for location-based gaming.
It’s one ... |
| 21.01.2018 | Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire — a step inside The Void’s new VR experience | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Before I went to Disneyland this week, I made it to what is a far more interesting attraction for Star Wars geeks. In the Downtown Disn... |
| 21.01.2018 | Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire — a step inside The Void’s new VR experience | Before I went to Disneyland this week, I made it to what is a far more interesting attraction for Star Wars geeks. In the Downtown Disney retail area, I went to The Void and awaited my turn at the Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire virtual re... |
| 19.12.2017 | Star Wars VR experience is coming to The Void’s new Southern California and Vegas venues | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Void has won a heap of praise for its New York-based virtual reality experience: Ghostbusters: Dimension. And now the Lindon, Utah-... |
| 25.11.2017 | Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire VR experience hits London on December 16 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The VOID just announced a third location for its top-of-the-line Star Wars VR installation. London now joins Orlando and Anaheim offeri... |
| 20.11.2017 | In ‘Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire,’ virtual reality finds a new hope | While I stood anxiously atop a floating platform on my way to what felt like certain doom, I paused to remember my mission as I felt the pulsing heat of the lava planet Mustafar rising up from below me. With the fate of the galaxy in the ha... |
| 11.10.2017 | Here’s the trailer for the new Star Wars VR experience coming to Disney parks | Star Wars VR is going to Disneyland.
Well, sort of. It’s going to the area just outside Disneyland — Downtown Disney (in Anaheim) and Disney Springs (next to Disney World in Orlando).
As we noted in August, Lucasfilm has been working with V... |
| 15.08.2017 | The Void CEO: Star Wars can make VR accessible | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As CEO of The Void, Cliff Plumer has to think big. Virtual reality fans are dishing out money for PC-based and mobile-based VR systems.... |
| 03.08.2017 | Star Wars VR attraction coming to Disneyland and Walt Disney World in 2017 | We’ve seen Star Wars experiment with VR, but the sci-fi brand is going to become a full virtual experience at Disneyland and Walt Disney World later this year.
The Walt Disney Company is partnering with VR studio The Void to create Star War... |
| 03.08.2017 | The Void is bringing a location-based Star Wars VR experience to Disney resorts | Location-based VR startup The Void announced today it will be partnering with Lucasfilm and ILMxLAB to bring a Star Wars-branded experience to Disney resorts. The new experience,”Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire,” will be coming to Downtown... |
| 03.08.2017 | Star Wars VR attraction coming to Disneyland and Walt Disney World in 2017 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’ve seen Star Wars experiment with VR, but the sci-fi brand is going to become a full virtual experience at Disneyland and Walt Disne... |
| 11.07.2017 | Disney puts a new spin on its accelerator | Over the past few years, Disney’s accelerator classes have been transitioning away from what was once a roughly standard early-stage growth framework. Rather than the “adopt-a-company” models prevalent among most accelerators, it has been l... |
| 12.06.2017 | Nomadic nabs $6M for its modular VR system for retail spaces | Virtual reality might be a bit too expensive for home use to take off right now, but for consumers going to dedicated retail spaces to experience it there has to be an added something to make it worth their while.
In its quest to build loca... |
| 02.05.2017 | XR is a new way to consider the reality continuum | S. Somasegar Contributor
S. Somasegar is managing director at Madrona Venture Group and the former head of Microsoft’s Developer Division.
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| 28.04.2017 | Exploring Virtualities, a Utah VR arcade and theater startup taking over a dying mall | Virtualities founder Ryan Burningham has a new idea for abandoned retail spaces — VR.
VR theaters and arcades like Virtualities are starting to pop up in warehouses and other empty spaces around the U.S., including Burningham’s startup, loc... |
| 28.03.2017 | Dreamscape's Big Dreams for Immersive VR | Ten years ago, a little voice whispered in producer and entrepreneur Kevin Wall’s ear about Facebook, and he got in before the IPO, giving him the resources to dream big dreams. When Wall heard that voice again, it was whispering about the ... |
| 21.09.2016 | Virtual reality in Japan | Sunny Dhillon Contributor
Sunny Dhillon is an early-stage investor at Signia Ventures in San Francisco where he invests in retail tech, e-commerce infrastructure and logistics, alongside consumer and enterprise software startups.
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| 13.09.2016 | MSI’s VR One backpack PC packs overclocked Core i7 and GTX 1070 | Enlarge reader comments 81 with 60 posters participating
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Backpack PCs for virtual reality gaming were all the rage at this year's Computex in Taiwan, but it looks like MSI ... |
| 03.06.2016 | Sorry games industry, but VR won’t wait—Hollywood is coming for it | Mark Walton reader comments 70 with 49 posters participating
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Inside the surprisingly humble cafeteria on the ground floor of London's Framestore, friends, colleagues, and j... |
| 01.06.2015 | How Drones And Virtual Reality Will Change Tourism | Robin Burks, Tech Times 01 June 2015, 12:06 pm
Imagine traveling all over the world and seeing famous sites in an entirely new way from the comfort of your home. Soar up to the top of the Eiffel Tower, fly over the Roman Colosseum or look d... |
| 12.05.2015 | Void Virtual Reality Theme Park: Welcome To The Matrix | Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 12 May 2015, 08:05 am
A series of virtual reality (VR) theme parks is poised to fill the void left behind by arcades. The Void (Visions Of Infinite Dimensions) promises large 60-by-60-foot rooms in which visitors... |
