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Vive X: Meet the $100 Million VR Accelerator

Even though it ‘still makes phones’, HTC is in the process of reinventing themselves. The company was the first of major technology companies to replace “Mobile First” with the “VR First” corporate approach, putting themselves in an advantageous position while the giants such as Samsung are slow to change their path, which we covered exclusively here. High Tech Computer Corporation, which is the full name of the company started its life as a computer manufacturer (HTC 1.0), quickly moving to the world of Windows Mobile PDA’s (anyone remembers Personal Digital Assistant craze of early 2000s?) and manufacturing brilliantly designed smartphones (HTC 2.0). HTC 3.0 is all about Virtual Reality, and the

Augmented Reality (AR), Business, News, startups, Virtual Reality (VR), VR World

Green Screen: New VR and AR Startup Accelerator and Co-Working Space

The dawn of Mixed Reality which sees technologies such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality brings investors together, investing in more accelerators and ever popular co-working spaces. Knowing that the content creators, startup companies need to focus on developing the next generation of applications. Green Screen Institute announced an opening of a new startup accelerator and co-working space located on the Californian side of Lake Tahoe, in Nevada county. Set in a peaceful environment, some three hour drive from the rushed Silicon Valley, Green Screen Institute offers higher quality of life at a fraction of a price when compared to incubators and living quarters predominant in Bay Area. “We believe extraordinary creativity

Business, Hardware, Mobile Computing, Software Programs, VR World

Qualcomm Announces $1 Million Robotics Accelerator

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) continues to push on the robotics front after announcing its microrover project powered by Snapdragon. Its new initiative is to pump $1.2 million into a robotics acclerator, which will host 10 companies and be located at the company’s headquarters in San Diego, while being run by TechStars which was recently featured in Bright Side of News’* ROAD to ROCKI Blog Series. This is all done through Qualcomm’s own accelerator initiative which is ‘powered’ by TechStars who provides their expertise in running their own accelerator program where they seed companies with $118,000 in seed funding as well as knowledge, advice and expertise. In order to enter into Qualcomm’s robotics

Business, Hardware, Opinion, Software Programs

THE ROCKI ROAD Part 4 – Disney, Techstars & YCombinator

Disney, Techstars & YCombinator – some of you who are familiar with Start-ups would immediately know this episode is about Accelerators from the title. After all, Techstars and YCombinator are without a doubt the two biggest and most well-known Accelerators, with countless of articles written about the two and comparing the two. How about Disney – what’s Accelerator gotta do with Disney? Well, the question should be what has Disney gotta do with Accelerators. Answer is simple – Innovation. Accelerators are creating so much buzz and so “at the forefront of technology innovation” that Disney has jumped in too — they’ve launched the inaugural Disney

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