{"id":28780,"date":"2016-08-09T09:36:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=28780"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:00:15","slug":"vr-vcs-examine-the-gap-between-expectations-and-reality-by-dean-takahashi-venturebeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/vr-vcs-examine-the-gap-between-expectations-and-reality-by-dean-takahashi-venturebeat","title":{"rendered":"VR VCs examine the gap between expectations and reality \u2014 By Dean Takahashi | VentureBeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/vr-panel-2-784x600.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWaves of virtual reality and augmented reality startups have their funding. Venture capitalists invested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digi-capital.com\/news\/2016\/04\/arvr-investment-hits-1-7-billion-in-last-12-months\/\" target=\"_blank\">$1.7 billion in the AR\/VR sector in the 12 months ended March 2016<\/a>, and $1.2 billion of that was invested in the first quarter of this year alone, according to Digi-Capital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/08\/09\/vcs-talk-about-the-gap-between-vr-expectations-and-reality\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWaves of virtual reality and augmented reality startups have their funding. Venture capitalists invested $1.7 billion in the AR\/VR sector in the 12 months ended March 2016, and $1.2 billion of that was invested in the first quarter of this year alone, according to Digi-Capital.\u201d Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,45,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-finance","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40233,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions\/40233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}