{"id":132439,"date":"2021-12-15T01:23:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T09:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/spatial-raises-25m-and-pivots-to-nft-art-and-metaverse-events"},"modified":"2021-12-15T01:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T09:23:52","slug":"spatial-raises-25m-and-pivots-to-nft-art-and-metaverse-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/spatial-raises-25m-and-pivots-to-nft-art-and-metaverse-events","title":{"rendered":"Spatial raises $25M and pivots to NFT art and metaverse events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spatial-raises-25m-and-pivots-to-nft-art-and-metaverse-events2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2021\/03\/23\/spatial-launches-immersive-audio-for-homes-offices-and-theme-parks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spatial<\/a> has raised $25 million as it pivots away from augmented reality and virtual reality <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2021\/05\/13\/spatial-unveils-web-browser-collaboration-in-3d-workspace-and-nft-virtual-galleries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collaboration<\/a> to nonfungible token (NFT) art exhibitions and metaverse events.<\/p>\n<p>Spatial started out by providing AR\/VR meeting places that people could access with AR glasses, VR headsets, and smartphones. But it found with the NFT art boom that it could provide a way for people to easily view digital art in virtual galleries, said Jake Steinerman, head of community at Spatial, in an interview with GamesBeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe changing our direction,\u201d said Steinerman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spatial has raised $25 million as it pivots away from augmented reality and virtual reality collaboration to nonfungible token (NFT) art exhibitions and metaverse events. Spatial started out by providing AR\/VR meeting places that people could access with AR glasses, VR headsets, and smartphones. But it found with the NFT art boom that it could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1512,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-mobile-phones","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}