VMocion – an entertainment technology company based in Scottsdale, Arizona – recently announced a $3 million seed round for the advancement of its VMocion 3V and WAIV technologies. The current investors include AZ Crown and Mayo Clinic, with Eric Crown of Insight Enterprises joining the Board of Directors alongside VMocion principals and Mayo Clinic.
VMocion’s 3V technologies enable users to feel the motion they see. And a virtually stimulated sense of physical motion matches the motion seen on screen, creating an all-sensory experience. 3V redefines how the world experiences motion by controlling a sixth physiological sense never effectively addressed commercially with the ancillary benefit of preventing VR sickness. This technology enables more users to engage in VR, AR, and XR experiences and participate for longer periods without discomfort or fatigue.
Motion sickness occurs when humans feel motion without seeing that matching motion. And when this happens, the eyes and inner ears send conflicting signals to the brain, causing a misalignment of the body’s vestibular and ocular systems. About 30% of people suffer from motion sickness under ordinary travel conditions, including sea, air, land travel, amusement park experiences, flight simulators, and other areas. Motion sickness manifests a significant disruption – thus causing a material loss of revenue in related markets selling products and services. VMocion’s WAIV technology raises the threshold of the vestibular sensation of motion, mitigating the brain’s perception of it and removing any visual-vestibular mismatch, thus preventing motion sickness for most who are otherwise afflicted.
VMocion holds an exclusive license to select Mayo Clinic patented technologies poised to negate the need to use pharmaceutical or invasive means to overcome VR illness or motion sickness: validated as safe and effective through human studies. Mayo Clinic will use any revenue it receives to support its not-for-profit mission in patient care, education, and research.
VMocion enhances user experiences in VR, XR, HMDs, and other consumer and commercial applications, including 2D/3D gaming, entertainment, planes, trains, automobiles, marine travel, amusement park experiences, EV/AV, flight simulation, pilot training, military: terrestrial, marine and aircraft.
