Jacob Mullins Contributor Jacob Mullins is a managing director at Shasta Ventures, where he has invested in VR/AR since 2016. More posts by this contributor The top 10 best of […]
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Back to news homeHarry Potter: Wizards Unite, Niantic’s follow-up to Pokémon GO, is shutting down
Niantic’s augmented reality game about the boy who lived is about to die. The company that brought us Pokémon GO debuted Harry Potter: Wizards Unite two years ago, following a […]
IoT Startup Superstars: LG Puts Up $20 Million for New Competition
Illustration: © IoT For AllThe startup space has been an incubator for innovation throughout the history of computing, and IoT has been particularly reliant upon these early companies’ small, agile, […]
Facebook’s first smart glasses make the case for face-worn wearables
Facebook’s first pair of smart glasses doesn’t feel like much of a Facebook product. You won’t find the Facebook logo emblazoned on them or even its name in small print […]
Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round
Urbanbase, a Seoul-based company that develops a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today it has raised $11.1 million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ […]
Pokémon GO influencers threaten a boycott after Niantic removes COVID safety measures
The creators of Pokémon GO, Niantic developed one of the first mainstream augmented reality games, boasting 166 million users and over a billion dollars in revenue last year. Taking inspiration […]
Zuckerberg is turning trillion-dollar Facebook into a ‘metaverse’ company, he tells investors
“I wanted to discuss this now so that you can see the future that we’re working towards and how our major initiative across the company are going to map to […]
Can advertising scale in VR?
Michael Boland Contributor More posts by this contributor Your in-car attention is media’s next battleground Mobile and enterprise are the keys to VR/AR scale One of VR’s prospective revenue streams […]
Lego should snap up this rapid-fire brick-finding iOS app
Lego has worked extremely closely with Apple over the years, experimenting with unreleased iOS tech and demoing it onstage at launch events like WWDC; this has included some pretty heavy […]
This Week in Apps: WWDC 21 highlights, Instagram Creator Week recap, Android 12 beta 2 arrives
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with […]