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Inside the New Zealand VR/AR Association’s Plan for Virtual World Domination
- Published October 21, 2016 12:12PM UTC
- Publisher Wholesale Investor
- Categories Company Updates
19th October 2106, idealog By Ben Mack
Some of New Zealand’s top VR and AR innovators have teamed up. Their goal: (virtual) world domination.
Aotearoa is a world-leader in a lot of things. Sheep. Kiwifruit. The most dominant sports team ever. Add virtual reality to that list.
The Land of the Long White Cloud’s top innovators in the booming virtual and augmented reality sector have joined forces to create the newly-formed New Zealand VR/AR Association. It’s part of a worldwide group of VR and AR innovators that has chapters in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Asia, with a goal of accelerating growth, fostering research and education, developing industry standards, connecting member organisations, and promotimng services of member companies.
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