GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

Nominees for the 2021 award share some common goals of working to benefit folks who risk being left behind despite their talent and skills. On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. Our readers’ votes will be factored in with feedback from more than 20 judges.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost two years after officially attaining “unicorn” status , Seattle startup Rec Room continues to expand the audience for its eponymous flagship app Rec Room , with new physical gift cards, a virtual haunted house, a brand crossover with Mattel’s Masters of the Universe , and perhaps most importantly, the possibility of feet.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

XOXO Festival co-founder Andy Baio unveiled his newest project on Tuesday : a new platform for virtual events called Skittish. Skittish looks like a very cute version of social spaces in video games like Second Life or VRChat but built specifically to host online events. They weren’t social in any meaningful way.”

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

I’m writing this on a Thursday night while participating in a panel in Clubhouse, the social audio chat platform that has grown quickly to more than 8 million users in a couple of months. I’m in the Nordic Games breakfast room run by Zsuzsa James and other folks.

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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. billion in 2020 and $770 million in the first quarter of 2021, with most of its revenue generated through advertising.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Several big projects from the Pacific Northwest made their public debut at the show, including a virtual-reality version of Among Us, a Wonder Woman game in development from Monolith Productions, and a new gameplay trailer for the Xbox-exclusive Hellblade 2. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2021, running on Xbox Series X. Nintendo Image).

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Vox

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The lists are, naturally, all over the place, but a few common themes rose to the top, offering a glimpse of what it was really like to be an American in 2021. Depending on your vantage point, 2021 was either the year that cryptocurrency grew up into a viable financial asset, was shown to be a scam, or simply when it became mainstream.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019. The report covers how these systems handle key social network elements like discoverability, moderation, and privacy, as well as how services based on them can scale up, interoperate, and make money.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This is Rec Room’s second round of funding in 2021, following a $100 million raise in March that officially catapulted the company into “unicorn” status as a privately-held startup valued at over $1 billion. I think it’s the nature of social apps to have a compounding effect,” said Cameron Brown, chief creative officer at Rec Room.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The video game industry came into 2021 with a lot of momentum , with millions of new customers, high sales, and venture capitalists falling over each other to put more money into the system. There have still been successes, surprises, and big hits, but 2021 in games has been a story about what could have been. Bungie Image).

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The Verge

JUNE 7, 2021

Apple’s hosting its second all-virtual Worldwide Developers Conference this year, and it seems like the company plans to squeeze in even more hardware announcements alongside its usual software updates. WWDC 2021 will run all week long, but things start off with the traditional Apple keynote on June 7th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This past weekend marked the first Sunday of the 2021 NFL season, and while it was full of exciting highlights, one may have towered over them all: the Carolina Panthers’ viral video of a giant virtual panther leaping around Bank of America Stadium. Image: Carolina Panthers. The video is ridiculous.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2020

Last month, the world’s biggest tech show announced that CES would go online-only in 2021 instead of expecting companies and journalists to brave Las Vegas in January. Perhaps we’ll have a vaccine by then or at least be more confident about gigantic business and social gatherings.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella described his company’s role in a new economy and society transformed by the pandemic in a keynote address on Tuesday kicking off Microsoft’s virtual 2021 Ignite developer conference. Related: Microsoft offers its own take on the metaverse with the introduction of Mesh for Teams.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The study, led by University of Washington associate professor Alexis Hiniker , shows that children express themselves differently to robots and humans and have nuanced views of social interactions. “The kids showed really sophisticated social awareness in their transfer behaviors,” Hiniker said in a UW press release.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

After being canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, E3 is back for 2021 in an all-digital format, kicking off on June 12th. If you want to attend the virtual event as a fan, you can now register to attend on E3’s website so that you can get access to the E3 portal and app. How can I watch E3?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

. — Facebook App (@facebookapp) October 4, 2021. The problem also appears to be affecting its virtual reality arm, Oculus. Users can load games they already have installed and the browser works, but social features or installing new games does not.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

But where does that leave us as we consider data privacy in 2021? This is the question we posed to expert panelists in our recent SecureWorld Remote Sessions webcast, Customer Data Privacy 2021: It's No Longer Just Business, It's Personal , which is available on-demand. 4 views on the state of data privacy in 2021.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Microsoft is removing all social hubs hosted in AltspaceVR and requiring users to log into the virtual reality app using a Microsoft account. The social hubs in AltspaceVR were designed “to help foster new friendships” and act as an entry point to get familiar with AltspaceVR itself. Microsoft acquired AltspaceVR in 2017.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Who will take home the robot trophies at the 2021 GeekWire Awards? PT for the 2021 GeekWire Awards. We’re live streaming today’s celebration from the Pacific Science Center with finalists joining us virtually for the live award announcements. Time to get social at this year’s Awards! GeekWire photo).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Yes, there was a game called Omikron: The Nomad Soul, starring a virtual David Bowie, released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows. Suggesting that Bill Gates had anything to do with it is like calling Apple CEO Tim Cook the mastermind behind Facebook because the social network runs on iPhone. No, the game was not made by Microsoft.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

They quickly went to work during the shortened 2020 season and used Microsoft Teams and the “Together” mode to bring fans who were locked out of arenas by the COVID-19 pandemic closer to the action via a virtual experience. — NBA (@NBA) January 16, 2021. Watch as Zion hustles back for the dunk!

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Germany’s competition watchdog is investigating Facebook for tying its social app to its Oculus virtual reality headsets. Today, the Bundeskartellamt or Federal Cartel Office (FCO) announced a probe of the increasingly close link between Facebook and Oculus, arguing that it could hurt competition in both VR and social networking.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

The ambitious game had aimed to rival Pokémon Go and cover the world in virtual blocks for players to meet and play together. As a result, we have made the difficult decision to re-allocate our resources to other areas that provide value to the Minecraft community and to end support for Minecraft Earth in June 2021.”. Image: Microsoft.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Like many of Cyan’s recent releases, Myst 2021 has been made with virtual reality in mind, and will initially be available on both the Oculus desktop app and the Quest headset. Customers who buy one Oculus version will also receive access to the other for no additional cost. Cyan Image). Fingers crossed.

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Vox

APRIL 18, 2021

Sources say the social network is planning to announce a series of products — some of which won’t appear for some time — under the umbrella of “social audio” on Monday. A Clubhouse-like product that will let groups of people listen to and interact with speakers on a virtual “stage.”. Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) March 16, 2021.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Nvidia announced its plans to innovate for the metaverse, making it the third major tech company to make such an announcement recently. Read More.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The breakout social hit Among Us is getting a bit bigger. It’s an airship, and it’s launching early 2021. A new virtual pop group debuts. We Are OFK is an interactive series slated to debut in spring 2021, covering the rise of an aspiring pop group called OFK, and fans got an early taste with a virtual performance at the event.

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Vox

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In a memo to Meta’s staff also posted on social media, one of Meta’s top executives, CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, reflected on Monday about the difficult moment the company is in. But Meta still needs to keep making money by growing its main business: selling ads on social media.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Now in its 10th year, the 2021 GeekWire Summit is going to look and feel a little different — including both virtual viewing options and a limited in-person experience at the very cool Block 41 event space in downtown Seattle. Tickets are still available, so go here to purchase your virtual or VIP in-person tickets.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Just in time for the 2021 holidays, Microsoft is releasing an ugly sweater that throws the style clock back to 1990. Sales of the sweater will support AbleGamers , a charity that helps combat social isolation, foster inclusive communities, and improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. Microsoft Image).

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GeekWire

MAY 28, 2021

The AfterLife Listings team from the University of Washington during a virtual presentation. AfterLife Listings and its online marketplace beat out three other teams that reached the final round of the all-virtual contest. 5,000 MOD Pizza Social Impact Prize — Sound Sustainability (UW). UW Photo). of British Columbia).

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GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2021

As it turns out, a game of social manipulation is a good excuse for a virtual social occasion, and every streamer worth talking about put in some Among Us time last year. — Among Us (@AmongUsGame) April 29, 2021. exclusive Ratchet & Clank skin, hat, and pet ? crossplay and online multiplayer.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MAY 31, 2023

The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. Sales of VR and AR headsets have fallen short of expectations.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

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. last big funding round was in 2021, when it r aised $145 million at a valuation of $3.5 The company in 2023 announced a $52.5

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Ever the optimist, even Bill Gates was challenged by everything 2021 threw at him. “Like many people, there were entire days this year when the only human interaction I had was through a screen,” Gates wrote about his own social isolation and life online. (GatesNotes Image). ” Preview of our more digitized future.

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GeekWire

APRIL 14, 2021

On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. 98point6 : Virtual primary care startup 98point6 raises $118M as pandemic sparks demand for digital health tech. Rec Room : Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth.

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