UploadVR

UploadVR
Industry Virtual reality and augmented reality
Founded 2014
Founder Taylor Freeman
Will Mason
Website uploadvr.com

UploadVR is a virtual reality media company based in San Francisco, California.[1][2] The company is best known for its virtual reality-driven events[3] digital publication uploadvr.com, and the Upload Collective, a VR focused co-working space in San Francisco.[4] The organization focuses on helping to grow the global virtual reality and augmented reality industry. In 2015 UploadVR received a $1.25m investment from Shanda Group.[5]

History

UploadVR was founded in 2014 by Taylor Freeman, William Mason, and Nick Ochoa.[6] The organization formed out of a meetup group in San Francisco. The first event had 60 people and six demos ranging from DK1s to early NASA hardware.[7][8] Over the following six months UploadVR produced over 20 events ranging from small events to AWE, a 3,000 person, 3-day conference they co-produced with augmentedreality.org in June 2015.[9] The company currently organizes events, covers the industry and runs the Upload Collective.[10]

UploadVR investors include Joe Kraus, David Freeman,[11] Larry Braitman, VRI, and Shanda Group.[12][13]

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