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UploadVR is a virtual reality media company based in San Francisco, California. The company is best known for it virtual reality-driven events and conferences that involve a mixed media platform of international VR community. In 2015 UploadVR received a $1.25m investment from Shanda Group.

History
UploadVR was founded in 2014 by Taylor Freeman, William Mason, and Nick Ochoa. The organization formed out of a meeting in San Francisco in 2014. The first conference had 60 people and six demos ranging from DK1s to early NASA hardware. Over the following six months Taylor Freeman and Will Mason produced over 20 events ranging from small events to AWE, a 3,000 person, 3-day conference they co-produced with Augmented Reality in June 2015. The media company currently organizes conferences on Virtual Reality and operates its own web site for virtual reality news.

On December 2015, UploadVR received a $1.25m investment from Shanda Group. The funding also included investment from Joe Kraus, Philip Rosedale and Tony Parisi.