GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

We are one of many, and we’re excited to add a consumer social company to that mix.” When GeekWire visited the company’s office and tested Rec Room in 2017, the startup was focused on virtual reality. Year-over-year revenue growth of 566% was fueled in part by the pandemic and trends toward social gatherings online.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 30, 2015

The Trends To Track in 2016. Here is more on what we expect each will bring us in 2016: Cloud Computing : The efficiencies of this new architecture are driving compute costs down. For 2016, expect more IT departments to be buying these small form factor cloud in a box data centers. For more see: [link] TheCyberThreat.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Rec Room , the eponymous Seattle-based development studio behind the virtual hangout/game creator Rec Room, has raised $20 million. It initially premiered in June 2016 on the Steam digital storefront, but has since grown to include several other platforms, including iOS, PlayStation 4, and the Oculus, in both 2D and virtual reality versions.

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Vox

AUGUST 12, 2020

But in a time of social unrest, these text-based slideshow graphics have found new resonance and an eager audience on the platform, which has been notorious for prioritizing still images over text. How to protest virtually. Defunding the police. Mail-in voting. Turkey’s concerning femicide rate. The crisis that’s afflicting Lebanon.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 11, 2009

…and today describes the extraordinary social technologies of 2016. Ross’s second book, Living Networks , published in 2002, opens with a description of corporate blogging, and discusses the idea of social networks years before MySpace or Facebook existed , as well as the rise of “micro-messages,” anticipating the Twitter phenomenon.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Rec Room is a free app described as a “universally accessible online community,” where users create a cartoony virtual avatar to participate in a variety of activities, many of which were designed by the application’s community. ” The metaverse’s been here since 2016, and it doesn’t have arms or legs. Rec Room Image).

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Vox

JUNE 9, 2021

Snap is, in its own words , a camera company sustained on intimacy and existing social networks. But beyond these core social features, Snap has bigger ambitions with augmented and virtual reality. The platform was reeling from Instagram’s successful replication of its 24-hour Stories and lens filters in 2016.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader accepts the Next Tech Titan award at the GeekWire Awards in 2016. Rec Room , the virtual reality community and gaming platform, a mainstay of VR and mixed reality platforms including the Meta Quest and, more recently, the Apple Vision Pro. The company in 2023 announced a $52.5

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GeekWire

JUNE 3, 2020

The plaintiffs are seeking a recovery of all money lost playing DoubleDown games, arguing that the game play and virtual chips constitutes a form of gambling. We generate substantially all of our revenue from the sale of additional virtual chips, which players can choose to purchase at any time to enhance their playing experience.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. Students also receive “wraparound” support including career skill development and social services. Winners accepted via Zoom — only two forgot to un-mute! .”

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

A new Together Mode was designed specifically for pandemic-era meetings, allowing participants to sit virtually next to each other. LinkedIn has been gradually growing and adding to Microsoft’s revenues since the company acquired the social network for $26 billion back in 2016.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. And Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc.

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2023

The device, which looks like a pair of high-tech ski goggles, lets users navigate with gestures in a manner very similar to Microsoft’s mixed reality headset, the first version of which was unveiled in 2015 and shipped in 2016. … You can see hear and interact with digital content just like it’s in your physical space.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Social deception game Among Us is getting a virtual reality adaptation. Among Us was inspired by social deduction games like Mafia or Werewolf , where a large group of players have to guess the identity of a dangerous hidden threat. Innersloth. There’s no release date for the game, but a trailer debuted at the 2021 Game Awards.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Providence initially started DexCare in 2016 to help with digital patient acquisition for its same-day care business, Providence Express Care Virtual. The system integrates with social media and can book an immediate televisit.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2021

It will feature 102 outdoor bays for hitting golf balls, a full-service restaurant and bar, and an event space for corporate and social events. Topgolf also has its Toptracer technology installed at various driving ranges around Seattle, and its Swing Suite tech is used at Forum Social House in Bellevue, Wash.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

” In 2016, a U.S. Several other lawsuits were filed in the wake of the federal appeals court decision, challenging the legality of social games in Washington. Big Fish Casino is a series of games like slots, blackjack, and roulette that use virtual chips. District Court judge in Seattle threw out Kater’s complaint.

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GeekWire

JUNE 6, 2023

Apple Photos) Entrepreneurs developing augmented and virtual reality apps and games are optimistic that Apple’s new headset will turbocharge adoption of the technology, much like the iPhone did for mobile computing in 2007. ” Forest Gibson , co-founder of Pluto VR “It’s all about virtual screens.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

That includes kids who are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC); children who struggle socially due to autism, ADHD or other conditions; and women eager to break into technology or entrepreneurial roles. On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. iUrban Teen.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg predicted in 2016 that televisions and phones would be replaced by holographic glasses. In 2016, for instance, millions of people fell in love with the phone-based AR game Pokémon Go. Public memorials like the US Holocaust Museum asked players to respect the space by not chasing virtual monsters in it.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Facebook’s Connect conference is one of the biggest days of the year for virtual reality. Godin is the developer of Virtual Desktop, a top-selling VR app that enables desktop computer access inside headsets. By Godin’s reckoning, it would be the second time Facebook had pulled the rug from under Virtual Desktop.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In stark contrast to human influencers who gain popularity through real-life experiences, talents, or expertise, AI influencers are entirely synthetic characters designed to engage audiences on social media platforms. Social media presence: AI influencers are typically active on various social media platforms, just like human influencers.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Fireside’s job posting claims “social media has failed us” by creating “antagonistic echo chambers with mediums for communication that only further an outrage culture and business models that incentivize spreading disinformation.” Fireside will feature curated conversations.

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Vox

JULY 1, 2022

People standing around Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, wearing VR headsets in 2016. | The metaverse — a concept pulled from science fiction — is a simulated virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play via digital avatars of themselves rather than with their actual physical bodies.

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Vox

MAY 18, 2021

The mistake could be a major setback in Citizen’s years-long quest to market itself as a public safety app and overcome the reputation established by its 2016 debut as Vigilante. It’s essentially a social network based around virtual voyeurism of everything from fiery car wrecks to gunshots to the foibles of animal neighbors.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2021

Vizio tried to reinvent the TV experience in 2016 but has pulled back on some of those experiments. Vizio tried to completely reinvent the TV experience in 2016 by removing all built-in apps from its first SmartCast TVs. Those same concerns also led to a $17 million class action settlement.). Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. It’s the next big breakthrough in technology. It’s a joke. It’s a marketing strategy. So what is the metaverse, really?

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GeekWire

JUNE 26, 2024

The Living Computers website and social media accounts were taken down Tuesday. Furthermore, when the museum expanded in 2016, Allen heralded the creation of an immersive, hands-on institution that would educate young people about the past and the future promise of technology. So keep your fingers crossed.”

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The Verge

MARCH 25, 2021

It appears to be one of the first, if not the first, virtual reality-focused startup to achieve unicorn status, a notable feat since Facebook’s landmark acquisition of Oculus VR for $2.4 Founded in 2016, Rec Room is a free app that lets players build custom virtual spaces and games that can be played across various platforms.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Odegard joined the company in 2016 as chief scientific officer. Former Rover and Cheezburger CTO Scott Porad is now vice president of engineering at Seattle virtual healthcare startup 98point6. Emerson Collective is a social change organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

While he once said it was hard to see the appeal of Google Glass , the AR wearable that proved unpopular with consumers, he’s held a consistently positive opinion on AR since at least 2016. July 2016: Cook says in a quarterly earnings call that “AR can be really great.”. “We This would become a running theme: AR good, VR not so good.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While Microsoft was an early pioneer in personal computing, it missed the mobile and search waves, didn’t participate in the consumer social networking wave, and was coming from behind on cloud. The 2016 acquisitions of LinkedIn and Minecraft brought social networking for businesses and people using gaming to build experiences, respectively.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

One of the areas where Amazon could help the combined Salesforce-Slack is in creating a more competitive video calling and virtual meeting solution. Salesforce lost out to Microsoft in a bitterly fought battle for LinkedIn in 2016. It’s subject to regulatory review and a Slack shareholder vote.

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Vox

MAY 31, 2023

One is a virtual reality mode, where users see a complete digital landscape — similar to the VR Oculus devices Meta has been making for years. Say, you’re walking on the beach, and you want someone who’s across the country to virtually join you while you walk. The headset is supposed to have two different functions.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Viva Insights uses data from LinkedIn’s Glint, and Viva Learning incorporates content from LinkedIn Learning, representing the latest effort by Microsoft to integrate its core technologies with the business social network that it acquired for more than $26 billion in 2016. Pricing for Microsoft Viva wasn’t announced.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 16, 2016

This new reality is driven by the rise of software defined networking , the virtualization of everything and a business imperative to create and deploy even newer information delivery models. Virtual equivalences to physical and infrastructure-centric protection norms are mostly non-existent. Jackson 2016 ) Follow me at [link].

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs.

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