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Bigscreen VR

https://bigscreenvr.com/

Last activity: 22.04.2023

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Bigscreen is the most popular non-gaming VR platform in the world.

Our software enables people to work, play, and hangout in virtual worlds. Power users spend 20-30 hours each week in Bigscreen, and many users have spent more than 1,000 hours in Bigscreen since the beta launch in March 2016. Bigscreen has over 250,000 users worldwide.

Follow our development story: https://blog.bigscreenvr.com/

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Location: United States, California, San Francisco

Employees: 11-50

Total raised: $14M

Founded date: 2014

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Date	Name	Website
-	a16z	a16z.com/
22.04.2023	Ludlow Ven...	ludlowvent...

Funding Rounds 2

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
10.10.2017	Series A	$11M	-
24.02.2017	-	$3M	a16z

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Date	Title	Description
13.02.2023	Bigscreen’s new VR headset goes small	I’m not sure how high up size is on the VR scene’s current list of complaints. Truth is, there are still a lot of things standing between the technology and mainstream acceptance. Still, massive, bulky headsets are a thing worth discussing....
16.01.2022	Лучший способ ругаться на созвоне? VR! Обзор корпоративных VR-звонилок	В моей голове каждый раз, когда кто-то рассуждает о будущем VR Источник: сделал сам, потратив больше времени, чем на статью (шутка, вроде бы) Нас в команде всего четверо. Нам нужно всего лишь раз в день слышать друг друга и иметь возможност...
17.12.2021	Работа на орбите, или VR-продуктивность в мире удалёнки	Вид из моего VR-шлема в «Орбитариуме» из Immersed Прим. редактора: оригинал текста появился в сентябре, и в рунете его уже замечали, но целиком на русский не переводили. Поскольку в тексте говорится о работе с кодом, мы решили, что на Хабре...
16.12.2019	Paramount Pictures will release classic films through Bigscreen’s social VR movie-watching platform	Bigscreen and Paramount Pictures announced a multi-year agreement to distribute classic 2D and 3D films in 10 countries through Bigscreen, the social VR movie-watching platform. In Bigscreen’s virtual world, users can customize personal ava...
16.12.2019	Paramount Pictures will release classic films through Bigscreen’s social VR movie-watching platform	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Bigscreen and Paramount Pictures announced a multi-year agreement to distribute classic 2D and 3D films in 10 countries through Bigscre...
02.06.2018	10 ambitious predictions for how VR/AR will shape our world	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Last week I joined hundreds of commercial VR and AR experts in London to participate in VR World 2018. The two-day conference featured ...
02.06.2018	10 ambitious predictions for how VR/AR will shape our world	Last week I joined hundreds of commercial VR and AR experts in London to participate in VR World 2018. The two-day conference featured sessions from industry leaders pioneering immersive technology in such fields as manufacturing, automotiv...
01.05.2018	New Bigscreen update streams your desktop to the Oculus Go	Oculus says that its new Go headset already boasts support for more than 1,000 titles out of the gate as of today. One of the most interesting of the small subset of those that I’ve taken a look at today has been the latest update for Bigsc...
10.04.2018	AR investors share insights on the industry’s 2018 trajectory	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. 2017 was a year full of surprises for the augmented reality industry. Arguably the single biggest development was the emergence of ARKi...
10.04.2018	AR investors share insights on the industry’s 2018 trajectory	2017 was a year full of surprises for the augmented reality industry. Arguably the single biggest development was the emergence of ARKit for iOS devices and ARCore for Android devices. Digi-Capital forecasts that the install base for mobile...
17.11.2017	The world’s first virtual reality movie theater to kick off on Dec 3	Most of us feel hesitation in going out to watch a movie in a crowded cinema with costly food items. Paramount Pictures is here to resolve your worries, by giving you a movie theater-like experience at ease of your home. Movie fans will onl...
11.10.2017	Term Sheet — Wednesday, October 11	5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Paid Content How can you protect what you can't see? From ExtraHop Oh, and he was one of the crypto panelists at J.P. Morgan’s SF offices while Jamie Dimon was bashing Bitcoin. ¯\_(ツ)_...
10.10.2017	Bigscreen nabs $11M in funding as it looks to build the perfect virtual movie-watching app	Big screens apparently mean big money. Virtual reality remote desktop app Bigscreen has added $11 million in Series A funding to its pocketbooks as it looks to weather some waning investor interest in VR and build up its technologies while ...
25.07.2017	Bigscreen VR app gets its biggest screen yet with latest update	With its latest update out today, Bigscreen is living up to its name. The Andreessen Horowitz-backed virtual reality app will be receiving one of its biggest updates since launch with the Cinema Update, which brings a hulking dynamically li...
26.02.2017	Bigscreen Secures $3M in Funding	Bigscreen, a Berkeley, California-based virtual reality startup, secured $3m in funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from True Ventures, Presence Capital, Ludlow Ventures, David Bettner and SV Angel. The comp...
24.02.2017	VR social productivity app Bigscreen raises $3M in round led by Andreessen Horowitz	While there is much ink spilled over the hunt for VR’s “killer app,” over the past year a number of social apps have emerged out of the VR community that seek to highlight the unparalleled opportunities for collaboration offered by VR. One ...
26.03.2016	5 free games to try when you get your Oculus Rift	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Today, Oculus VR cofounder and chief executive Palmer Luckey made the first delivery of the consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual...
26.03.2016	5 free games to try when you get your Oculus Rift	Today, Oculus VR cofounder and chief executive Palmer Luckey made the first delivery of the consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Many more will be shipping soon. For the past few months, I’ve been using an Oculus DK2...
-	This app brings your entire desktop into the VR world with you	Although immersive gaming experiences and 360-degree films might be the first things that come to mind when you think about virtual reality, the technology has the potential to change your life in more conventional ways as well. Whether you...
-	Will we work remotely via VR?	“So, where are you right now?” We’ve all started phone calls or video chats this way, curious about background noise or the art on the wall behind our colleagues. It’s an interesting question. We may be talking with each other, but physica...

Bigscreen VR

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