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Early-bird tickets close today, 9/21

TC Sessions: AR/VR on October 18 at UCLA is gearing up to be a great show. Early-bird sales end after today, September 21. Don’t miss out on the biggest savings for this event — book your

Baobab Studios CEO Maureen Fan to speak at TechCrunch AR/VR Sessions

The world of VR may have already sort of figured out the basics of how VR gaming will work, but when it comes to studios building the next generation of narrative “movie” content, there ar

Baobab Studios raises $25M as it looks to bring richer storytelling to VR

For all of the technical pizazz that virtual reality studios can wow users with, at the end of the day great content is about establishing an emotional connection. Baobab Studios is aiming to move pa

The reality of AR/VR survival

VR will be big, AR will be bigger (and take longer). But as in most early-stage tech markets, growth will be curved, not straight. There will be a few billion dollars of revenue this year, a progressi

What this year’s M&A activity tells us about media and entertainment

With Dalian Wanda Group's $3.5 billion acquisition of Legendary Entertainment in January, this year's media and entertainment M&A activity kicked off with a bang that hasn't slowed down. Comcast's

In a VR world

In 1895, audiences sat down to watch “L’Arrivée d’un Train en Gare de La Ciotat,” an early film that showed a train pulling into a station. Legend has it that when viewers saw the train barre