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Virtual reality startup Jaunt reportedly raised $50M-plus funding round

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Jaunt has reportedly raised more than $50 million in a third round of funding, according to a report in Variety. The funding, if confirmed, is another sign that investors are very interested in the disruptive potential of virtual reality, which immerses you in virtual worlds.

Tech advisor Digi-Capital estimates that virtual reality will be a $30 billion market (within the larger $150 billion market of virtual reality and augmented reality) by 2020.

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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.