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Switzerland’s MindMaze raises $100M in funding for VR for stroke victims

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Swiss startup MindMaze has raised $100 million in funding to create virtual reality hardware and software to provide clinical treatments for stroke victims.

The funding is one more example of how VR is spreading far beyond games and entertainment. As major VR headsets, such as the Oculus Rift, launch this year, the industry is drawing hundreds of new startups. By 2020, VR and augmented reality are expected to become a $10 billion industry, according to tech adviser Digi-Capital.

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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.