SpaceVR head Ryan Holmes (right) on stage at SVVR.
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SpaceVR raises $1.25M to send VR camera satellite into orbit

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Ryan Holmes, founder of SpaceVR, said that his startup has raised $1.25 million to send a virtual reality camera into space as a satellite, orbiting the Earth and taking 3D imagery of the planet and outer space.

Holmes said that the satellite will be launched into space in early 2017 aboard a rocket from SpaceX, the space rocket company created by Elon Musk. The camera will be sent to the International Space Station, and then it will be launched via a Nanoracks launcher into an orbit at more than 17,000 miles per hour, Holmes said.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.