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Unity for Humanity Grant Awarded to Zoe Immersive in Collaboration with West Allis-West Milwaukee School District
May 26, 2022Zoe Immersive, an award-winning metaverse software company with a mission to democratize content creation, and the West Allis-West Milwaukee School District have been awarded a $100K grant from the Unity Charitable Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation. This grant will allow the deployment of metaverse learning programs to support over 300 educators and students in the Title I School District.
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Sketchfab and Zoe Immersive Partner to Drive EdTech Content Creation
April 4, 2022Zoe Immersive, an award-winning metaverse software company with a mission to democratize content creation, and Sketchfab, the leading platform for 3D and AR on the web, today announced a partnership. This collaboration provides educators with developer-grade graphics and software technology to easily integrate into curriculum to help students create immersive content.
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Zoe Immersive's CEO joins the prestigious Female EdTech Fellowship
January 26, 2022I'm honored to have been selected amongst 110+ applications from 24 countries to join the Female EdTech Fellowship, an exclusive business group of 14 EdTech founders building the future! This amazing group was put together with the help of SuperCharger Ventures and the European Edtech Alliance.
Emilie Joly - CEO & Co-founder
Dreamscape & Zoe Partner to Simplify 3D Creation for Collaborative VR Experiences
December 1st, 2021Dreamscape Immersive, the world’s leading location-based virtual reality company, today announced it has licensed the technology behind Zoe Immersive’s 3D creation platform. Zoe’s easy-to-use, cross-platform no-code 3D world creator toolset allows anyone, from novice to expert, to create and share interactive immersive experiences...
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Early Access Program: Zoe Mobile
October 18, 2021Zoe is coming to Mobile! If you’re familiar with Zoe VR, you should find your way pretty quickly: import 3D models; rotate, scale, resize them; set up interactions, and play.
Get a chance to access the very first version of Zoe Mobile by subscribing to the Early Access program...
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World Premiere at the Geneva International Film Festival
October 14, 2021It’s official: the first multiplayer adventure built with Zoe has been selected to premiere at the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF). “The Legend of Kami” will be available from November 5th to 18th in the Virtual Territories section of the festival in Plainpalais, Geneva.
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Meet the Team: Q&A with Emilie Joly, CEO & Co-founder
September 17, 2021Emilie Joly is CEO and co-founder of Zoe Immersive. Discover Emilie's background and how she went on working on Zoe in this short interview.
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Meet Maria Beltran, Co-Founder and Head of Product Development
September 17, 2021Maria is our co-founder and Head of Product Development. Originally from Bogota she is based in Switzerland and heads the development of the Zoe platform. Maria is a true innovator, an award-winning product designer and has worked on numerous products at the intersection of new technologies and design.
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Meet Sylvain Joly, Head of Design & Co-founder
September 17, 2021Sylvain is our co-founder and Head of Design. He created the first 360 interactive story when he was only a student and went on to supervise all aspects of design for immersive projects involving Fortune 500 companies. He makes sure the Zoe platform can be used by anyone!
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Join the First Live Q&A and Demo Session with the Zoe Team
September 9, 2021We’re excited to organize the first Live Q&A session with the Zoe Team. We’ll go over a live demo of Zoe and discuss our plans for the platform. We’d love to have you all join us!
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StartEngine Campaign Launched
August 5, 2021Dear Zoe Community,
We are very excited to announce that our equity crowdfunding campaign in partnership with StartEngine has now launched! Equity crowdfunding allows the general public to invest in early-stage companies in exchange for partial ownership.
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Zoe available in Oculus App Lab
February 4, 2021Along with their Quest line’s newest update, Oculus just launched App Lab, an easier way to distribute apps for Quest. No more sideloading necessary! We’re very grateful to have been selected by Oculus to appear in this first batch.
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Zoe 2020 in Review
December 24, 2020What a year to launch a new education platform! When we launched Zoe in the first months of 2020 we obviously did not know how this year would turn out, and we couldn’t be more impressed by our community. We can not thank you enough for trusting us with your students' learning experience and taking the leap to try something new in such a difficult year!
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VR for Education courses by Zoe on Unity Learn
November 11, 2020Our goal is to empower students to unleash their creativity while learning key 21st Century Skills, developing their computational thinking and problem solving skills. As Unity’s mission outlines - The world is a better place with more creators in it - and we could not agree more. There is no better way to assess students understanding of a topic by asking them to create their own experiences and become master practitioners!
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#2030: Swiss and US classrooms leveraging VR to define the future
October 25, 2020Designed in partnership with Swiss-US startup apelab, CompiSternli, and San Diego based educator Kwaku Aning, the learning program will bring a groundbreaking virtual reality learning to secondary schools in Switzerland and the United States.
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Western Middle School projects
September 2, 2020Led by educators Gaspare Lipari and Michele Giorlando DeRosa, and sponsored by the Greenwich Alliance for Education, the Western Middle School has recently run a 2-week program using Tilt Brush & Zoe with some outstanding GHS and UConn students. They have been working really hard to put together unique VR experiences that each represent an aspect of their lives and we are excited to share their work!
Videos of the Projects
Student Experiences made with Zoe at Comic-Con@Home
July 23, 2020Comic-Con is all virtual this year for the first time in over 50 years, it runs online the same dates it was supposed to be live, July 23-26. The Zoe virtual showcase features projects created during summer programs starting this Comic-Con weekend in partnership with the SDJA, The Bayha Group and Downey Unified School District.
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Spatial Learning Event Webinars
May 20, 2020Discover how teachers are using immersive technologies today to make the learning experience more engaging! Each session of this series will pair an educator with a team working on an immersive solution, and together they will describe and show you how it all works with students. Organised by the Zoe team and moderated by Jessica Millstone, Organizer of the NYEdTech Meetup and Managing Director at Copper Wire Ventures, & Emilie Joly, Founder and CEO of Apelab.
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Press Release: Introducing Zoe
Apelab, a VR/AR software company based in Geneva, Switzerland, and Los Angeles, has launched Zoe, a remote learning solution empowering educators in K-12 & Higher Education to teach interactive 3D, VR/AR creation & programming. Image of 8th grade student using Zoe VR and College Student using Zoe for Unity.
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