AppliedVR, developer of virtual reality therapeutics, has scooped up $36 million in Series B funding months after it closed a Series A round.
The Series B, which included investments from F-Prime Capital, JAZZ Venture Partners, Sway Ventures and SVB Ventures, brought the company’s total raise to $71 million.
WHAT IT DOES
AppliedVR creates virtual reality technology for healthcare applications,...
Japanese VR medical device maker Jolly Good, together with the Nippon Medical School, a private university in Tokyo, has developed a cloud-based clinical education platform that uses VR.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The education platform employs Jolly Good's Operation Cloud VR system that delivers a virtual view of live procedures through a 360-degree VR camera. The system is capable of automatically saving...
Curebase, a platform for decentralized clinical trials, is partnering with AppliedVR to run five trials to test the effectiveness of virtual reality for treating chronic pain.
The companies said the one-year partnership will focus on studying a self-administered, at-home VR therapy program. Curebase will manage patient recruitment, consent, and engagement, and collect patient-reported outcomes...
A brand-new incubator and accelerator dedicated to helping develop healthtech businesses has been unveiled in the United Arab Emirates.
Dubai SME, which is part of the Department of Economic Development of the Government of Dubai – commonly referred to as Dubai Economy – has launched “Ztartup”, which will operate out of the emirate’s Healthcare City area.
“The new incubator is dedicated to...
An Australian virtual reality startup was recently awarded a $100,000 grant (approximately AU$131,000) from Epic Games, the American video game company behind the online game Fortnite.
WHAT IT DOES
Launched in 2017, Vantari VR develops a VR training platform that uses flight-simulator-style technology to help doctors and students practice and perfect life-saving procedures. The platform...
New research on therapeutic virtual reality reports that an in-home, interactive program for chronic pain appeared superior to a non-interactive sham app experience for reducing multiple measures of pain among participants with self-reported chronic low back pain.
Published earlier this week in JMIR, the study was funded by therapeutic VR company AppliedVR and conducted by its employees alongside...
A video of a toddler born in the year 2020 pressing inanimate objects in the hope of dispensing hand sanitizer recently went viral. Although bizarre, this is emblematic of the current hyper-precautionary health climate that Generation Alpha will be growing up in. The WHO's hygiene campaign, 'Save Lives: Clean your Hands' to reduce COVID-19 infections has galvanised even the youngest in our...
Virtual reality could be key to COVID-19 rehabilitation, according to a new paper published in BMJ Open Sport Exercise Medicine. Specifically, the authors of the publication pitch tailor-made rehabilitation services that can be administered remotely via a VR experience.
The authors explain that many COVID-19 patients who were critically ill continue to have Post-Intensive Care Syndrome, even...
Virtual reality opioid overdose prevention programs can be just as effective as in-person training to give people the knowledge and confidence to administer naloxone, according to a study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.
Naloxone, also called Narcan or Evzio, is a prescription medication created to rapidly reverse opioid overdoses. All...
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian and BehaVR have teamed up to offer moms-to-be NurtureVR, a virtual reality program that supplies prenatal education, pain management, mindfulness strategies and support after giving birth.
The system will launch at Hoag in September as a pilot program before becoming available to healthcare providers and health plans in November.
“We are delighted to partner...
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