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Virtuix gains $3 million investment
From Virtuix's most recent update (here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1944625487/omni-move-naturally-in-your-favorite-game/posts/821339)
"We are proud to announce that we raised $3 million in seed round funding from investors including Tekton Ventures, Scentan Ventures, Radical Investments, Maveron, Scout Ventures, StartCaps Ventures, and a group of private investors. The funds will enable us to grow our team and expand our mass production and distribution network as we get ready for our commercial launch this summer, ensuring that we can deliver a great virtual reality platform to you as well as to new markets and audiences that are emerging every day. Where our Kickstarter funds were aimed at developing the Omni and bringing the product to market, this latest round is designed to broaden our distribution and meet global demand as virtual reality becomes a mass market, new medium."
Interview with VRFocus: http://vrfocus.com/archives/2502/virtuix-talks-3-million-investment-size-price-concerns/
This is great news. Another step towards our VR future :)
"We are proud to announce that we raised $3 million in seed round funding from investors including Tekton Ventures, Scentan Ventures, Radical Investments, Maveron, Scout Ventures, StartCaps Ventures, and a group of private investors. The funds will enable us to grow our team and expand our mass production and distribution network as we get ready for our commercial launch this summer, ensuring that we can deliver a great virtual reality platform to you as well as to new markets and audiences that are emerging every day. Where our Kickstarter funds were aimed at developing the Omni and bringing the product to market, this latest round is designed to broaden our distribution and meet global demand as virtual reality becomes a mass market, new medium."
Interview with VRFocus: http://vrfocus.com/archives/2502/virtuix-talks-3-million-investment-size-price-concerns/
This is great news. Another step towards our VR future :)
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- Yeah that's awesome. I can see using the omni regularly with vr exercise games at a very minimum, especially with positional tracking.
- This is awesome news! You'd lose a lot of weight if playing DayZ with the omni..
- Hooray! Now they can hire decent PR firms that know how to deal with aspies, like Robin Williams I was told was an aspire, or Beethoven, we certainly want ASPIES treated with dignity and respect, 3 million maybe can help with that. Unlike happened at GDC with a very bad PR firm that obviously knows NOTHING about dealing with aspies.
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_2086.shtml
Dan Aykroyd, Darryl Hannah, Gary Numan
★Speculated to have Asperger's Syndrome
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Alan Turing, 1912-1954, English mathematician, computer scientist and cryptographer
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German/American theoretical physicist
Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, Scottish/Canadian/American inventor of the telephone
Anton Bruckner , 1824-1896, Austrian composer
Bela Bartok, 1881-1945, Hungarian composer
Benjamin Franklin,1706-1790, US polictician/writer
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British logician
Bobby Fischer, 1943-2008, World Chess Champion
Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychoanalyst
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868-1928, Scottish architect and designer
Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, US poet
Erik Satie, 1866-1925 - Composer
Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Czech writer
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish playwright, writer of Pygmalion, critic and Socialist
George Washington, 1732-1799, US Politician
Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911, Czech/Austrian composer
Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, US actress
H P Lovecraft, 1890-1937, US writer
Henry Cavendish, 1731-1810, English/French scientist, discovered the composition of air and water
Henry Ford, 1863-1947, US industrialist
Henry Thoreau, 1817-1862, US writer
Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, English mathematician and physicist
Jane Austen, 1775-1817, English novelist, author of Pride and Prejudice
Kaspar Hauser, c1812-1833, German foundling, portrayed in a film by Werner Herzog
Ludwig II, 1845-1886, King of Bavaria
Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Viennese/English logician and philosopher
Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827, German/Viennese composer
Mark Twain, 1835-1910, US humorist
Michelangelo, 1475 1564 - Italian Renissance artist
Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943, Serbian/American scientist, engineer, inventor of electric motors
Oliver Heaviside, 1850-1925, English physicist
Richard Strauss, 1864-1949, German composer
Seth Engstrom, 1987-Present, Magician and World Champion
Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, US inventor
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, US politician
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter
Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, English Writer
Wasily Kandinsky, 1866-1944, Russian/French painter
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791, Austrian composer
★Historical people
Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, English/American film director
Andy Kaufman, 1949-1984, US comedian, subject of the film Man on the Moon
Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, US artist.
Charles Schulz, 1922-2000, US cartoonist and creator of Peanuts and Charlie Brown
Glenn Gould, 1932-1982, Canadian pianist
Hans Asperger, 1906-1980, Austrian paediatric doctor after whom Asperger's Syndrom is named
Howard Hughes, 1905-1976, US billionaire
Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, Russian/US writer on science and of science fiction, author of Bicentennial Man
Jim Henson, 1936-1990, creator of the Muppets, US puppeteer, writer, producer, director, composer
John Denver, 1943-1997, US musician
L S Lowry, 1887-1976, English painter of "matchstick men"
★Contemporary People
Al Gore, 1948-, former US Vice President and presidential candidate
Bill Gates, 1955-, Entrepreneur and philanthropist. A key player in the personal computer revolution.
Bob Dylan, 1941-, US singer-songwriter
Charles Dickinson, 1951, US Writer
Crispin Glover, 1964-, US actor
David Helfgott, 1947-, Australian pianist, subject of the film Shine
Garrison Keillor, 1942-, US writer, humorist and host of Prairie Home Companion
Genie, 1957-?, US "wild child" (see also L'Enfant Sauvage, Victor, )
James Taylor, 1948-, US singer/songwriter
Jamie Hyneman, 1956-, Co-host of Mythbusters
Jeff Greenfield, 1943-, US political analyst/speechwriter, a political wonk
John Motson, 1945-, English sports commentator
John Nash, 1928-, US mathematician (portrayed by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, USA 2001)
Joseph Erber, 1985-, young English composer/musician who has Asperger's Syndrome, subject of a BBC TV documentary
Keith Olbermann, 1959-, US sportscaster
Kevin Mitnick, 1963-, US "hacker"
Michael Palin, 1943-, English comedian and presenter
Oliver Sacks, 1933-, UK/US neurologist, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings
Paul Kostabi 1962-, writer, comedian, artist, producer, technician
Pip Brown "Ladyhawke", 1979-, New Zealand Singer/Songwriter, Musician
Robin Williams, 1951-, US Actor
Seth Engstrom, 1987-, Magician and World Champion in Sleight of Hand. The best man with a deck of cards that the world has ever seen.
Tony Benn, 1925-, English Labour politician - 3mill between 7 investors?
od: goodbye martin! lol
