This Week In XR: $35 Million To Expand VR Game World Zenith, $9.9 Million For Mediview AR Surgery

This Week In XR: $35 Million To Expand VR Game World Zenith, $9.9 Million For Mediview AR Surgery

The hot nightlife ticket was the Sandbox party, where Paris Hilton DJ'd a set. SXSW felt half empty this year, like no-one thought they were going to Austin six weeks earlier. Nonetheless XR was well represented with over 30 XR experiences and events at SXSW. Many prominent members of the community were live and in-person like ground-breaking VR director and producer Nonny de la Pena, who was inducted in the SXSW hall of fame. The content was outstanding this year, with an innovative VR narrative, On The Morning You Wake (To the End of the World) won best narrative VR Experience. The audience putting on VR headsets at the Miro Shot performance. Miro Shot, the Paris art collective that combines VR and trip hop, played a tiny set that nonetheless was a gut punch: this is the concert of the future. Location based entertainment will be augmented. There was a lot of buzz around NFTs. Paris Hilton DJ'd at the Sandbox party. Zuck doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on the Meta Metaverse. The VR MMORPG has money to expand and deepen its virtual world. Ramen VR Raises $35M for Zenith, a cross-playable (Steam, Playstation, Quest) MMORPG which has been the