{"id":102294,"date":"2019-10-22T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/352679"},"modified":"2019-10-22T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:08:00","slug":"sandbox-vr-raises-11-million-thanks-to-celebrity-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/sandbox-vr-raises-11-million-thanks-to-celebrity-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandbox VR raises $11 million thanks to celebrity contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The VR startup Sandbox VR has raised an additional $11 million to fund its location-based VR experiences, an investment that includes contributions for a number of notable musicians and actors.<\/p>\n<p>As a provider of location-based VR experiences, Sandbox VR aims to offer a dedicated space for specially developed VR games.<\/p>\n<p>That $11 million raised in this strategic round builds on the $68 million raised during a Series A round earlier this year and will help the company set up pay-per-session VR experiences in a planned 16 locations by the end of 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/10\/22\/sandbox-vr-raises-millions-more-in-celebrity-party-round\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> reports that the round saw contributions from the likes of Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, and Will Smith to name a few. Those celebrity investments, Sandbox VR\u2019s Siqi Chen tells TechCrunch, have the additional benefit of improving VR\u2019s image and enticing would-be customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VR startup Sandbox VR has raised an additional $11 million to fund its location-based VR experiences, an investment that includes contributions for a number of notable musicians and actors. As a provider of location-based VR experiences, Sandbox VR aims to offer a dedicated space for specially developed VR games. That $11 million raised in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}