- Japan’s Gree creates a $12M virtual reality investment fund Link
グリーがVR関連ファンドを立ち上げてそこにコロプラのVRファンドが出資しているこの座組、興味深いですね。ともあれ、gumiが参加しているVRファンドと合わせてVR関連特化型のファンドがいくつも立ち上がっているのは注目すべき事実かと。Fbの発表もあって話題もますます増えてますし、私個人的にもこの分野は徐々に確信に近いレベルで信じはじめてますので、引き続きウォッチしてまいります。
調達関連
- Poshmark raises $25 million for its fashion resale marketplace Link
- Confirmed: Alibaba invested $1.25 billion in China’s top food delivery startup Link
- Nauto raises $12 million for driverless car technology that’s street-legal today Link
- Shopify acquires Kit, the artificially intelligent marketing bot Link
- Lucid VR raises $2.1M for 180-degree virtual reality camera Link
- Indonesian photo-sharing app PicMix scores $3M Series A Link
- Max Levchin’s Affirm raises $100 million to expand beyond point-of-sale financing Link
- Delivery.com acquires BrewDrop to boost alcohol orders in Texas Link
- Logistics marketplace Fleet receives $4 million in seed funding Link
- Telegram’s Bot API gets inline keyboards, support for 19 file types before Facebook’s F8 event Link
- YapJobs raises $1.4 million to match job seekers with hospitality roles Link
- Cloud-based video production platform 90 Seconds lands $7.5M Series A led by Sequoia India Link
- Venture firm Accel just raised a new $500 million European fund Link
- Tim Draper has raised $190 million for his newest venture fund Link
- DocSend raises $8M for smarter document sharing Link
- Marxent raises $10 million for in-store AR visualizations Link
AR・VR関連
- Facebook wants to make social VR indistinguishable from real life Link
- Facebook’s Jaw-Dropping Social VR Demo Really Is The Future Link
- Facebook demos taking selfies in VR Link
- Chris Dixon on competing with Internet giants for budding AI and VR talent Link
- The 7 Best Vive Games to Play Right Now Link
- Virtual reality justifies those ludicrous 17-inch ‘portable desktops’ Link
- This flying saucer is Facebook’s virtual reality 360-degree camera Link
- Facebook says VR headsets will look like Ray-Bans in 10 years Link
- Zuckerberg: Future VR and AR gadgets will look like ordinary glasses Link
- Facebook’s 10-year roadmap is basically lasers, bots and VR Link
- ‘The SoulKeeper VR’ Could Be the Beautiful First-Person RPG You’ve Always Wanted Link
- Virtual reality is poised to explode in 2016 (FB) Link
- Deluxe VR offers creative services for virtual reality productions Link
- VR as the Artist’s Interactive Canvas Link
チャット・ボット関連
- Bots, explained Link
- The chatbot gold rush is officially here Link
- Business Insider is launching a Facebook Messenger bot Link
- Twilio adds Facebook Messenger to its communication API platform Link
- Facebook’s Bot Engine lets you teach chatbots what to say with AI Link
- Facebook opens its Messenger platform to chatbots Link
- This Twitter bot made me the perfect Spotify playlist — and it’ll do the same for you Link
