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Dr Vijay Paul and Dr Nishanth Krishnananthan, Vantari

This Australian medtech startup is bringing the power of virtual reality to healthcare

Vantari empowers doctors and patients to better visualise and read medical imaging such as CT and MRI scans. The company’s cutting-edge rendering technology takes the current visualisation of these images into Virtual Reality by creating an immersive and intuitive environment.

Meet the Aussie startup that is tackling seniors’ isolation epidemic with virtual reality

SilVR Adventures is providing highly immersive virtual experiences tailored to groups of seniors in aged care facilities across Victoria and planning to expand to more Australian states in 2020.

This new shared virtual reality (VR) centre from the UK has opened in Melbourne

The company designs and develops immersive 360° projection spaces, which act a little like a giant virtual reality (VR) headset. With wraparound sound and vision, entire teams can be immersed in any 360° or VR content.

This communications and content company lands $2m funding round to bring first-of-its-kind Virtual Reality...

Curiious, the communication, technology and content company, has announced it has closed a $2 million funding round from a core group of...

Sydney tech startup Totem Labs is virtually bringing people’s very worst fears to life

Totem Labs uses cutting edge VR technology to expose patients in a gradual way to their phobia - whether it be spiders, snakes, heights, a fear of flying or otherwise - to help them overcome their fear.

Virtual reality training for front line staff is the future and Victorian paramedics are...

Better preparation through immersive VR Training allows trainees to understanding escalating situations and work out in complete safety strategies to avoid violence.

Australian business owners are turning immersive tech into a (virtual) reality [VIDEO]

Over the next decade, Virtual and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies will create opportunities for small and medium size businesses to interact with their customers in new immersive ways.

Step into the future – how to incorporate virtual reality tech into your marketing...

It offers an immersive environment for the users: and this is where everything else pales. Getting users completely immersed into your content creates a new experience, a new way of interacting with your message and brand.

2017 trends: Top entrepreneurs predict what will shape the startup space this year

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be the hype technologies for 2017 and we will hear of the many applications that are possible and how these technologies will fundamentally disrupt work as we know it.

Get a glimpse of the future through the latest augmented reality headset [VIDEO]

With the Meta 2, an augmented reality headset that makes it possible for users to see, grab and move holograms just like physical objects, Meron Gribetz hopes to extend our senses through a more natural machine.

Digital keeps moving at a scary pace so this start-up is offering real future-proof...

Academy Xi currently offers part-time courses with full-time options coming in 2017. The courses are 10 weeks in duration and are deliberately structured to be intense, covering everything from the basics to best practice.

A state-of-the art virtual and augmented reality complex is being set up in Wellington

A feasibility study for ProjectR has begun, which will include developing designs for the state-of-the-art complex, and has been funded by some Wellington-based IT and technology businesses, who are collaborating on the project.

Ashton Kutcher and Samsung invest in virtual reality start-up’s NZ$20 million Series A round...

Wellington virtual reality start-up 8i secured NZ$20 million from Samsung Ventures, Ashton Kutcher (through his fund Sound Ventures) and many more big names

As virtual reality makes its comeback, is augmented reality poised to take over?

Brands like NRMA and HSBC are finding success with virtual reality, it's catching on quite steadily now. So how will augmented reality take over the game?

Which startup has raised over $500 million in funds? [VIDEO]

It's a startup that's promising to bring magic back into the world of technology. It's called Magic Leap and, it looks awesome. The company has just...

Oculus Rift provides a view into the future

Have you seen The Lawnmower Man? If you haven’t, don’t. It’s enough to make you laugh off the idea of virtual reality all together....

We cannot choose the cards we are dealt but, it’s how you play the...

Carnegie Mellon University used to run a lecture series called "The Last Lecture". The premise was that, if this was your last lecture before you...

Korea’s Live Park pushes the limits of virtual interaction. But ‘4-D’? No.

We're not sure where marketing people got the bright idea that 4-D is not an expression from a physics book but rather the answer to the question: "What's more awesome than 3-D?" Live Park 4-D Art Factory, an installation in Korea, expands the boundaries of motion-sensing software. But it doesn't require an understanding of relativity and spacetime to enjoy.
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