GeekWire

JULY 16, 2024

(Mirra Image) Virtual reality entertainment startup Mirra plans to open its first location in Bellevue, Wash. Mirra is a “social entertainment venue” that offers an assortment of unique VR games that attendees can play for an hour at a time. We’re merging VR technology with a vibrant social scene to create unforgettable events.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

Many formerly in-person events from team meetings to conferences transitioned to virtual events and many companies seem conflicted on if, when or how they can get everyone back to the office. So, will virtual events continue to thrive and, if so, can they deliver better experiences? Room to grow virtually.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 14, 2020

For the last couple of months I have been selectively sharing conversations, tutorials, and highlight videos from The Virtual Excellence Show on this blog, but I haven’t written anything about the show itself. Physical events supplanted by virtual events. Virtual speaking and events in fact play to my strengths.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2022

Two years ago, the consulting giant started shipping many of its recruits virtual reality headsets instead. At the same time, it created a virtual world or “metaverse” that enables employees to socialize, form teams, conduct training, and collaborate. “We More business applications are on the way. Next step: the office.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Examples of virtual photo booth images created using Snapshot, a web application created by Snapbar. Even though many people and companies have returned to in-person gatherings, Snapbar isn’t going back. and generates galleries and sharing capability on social. Snapbar CEO Sam Eitzen.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Eight years after they left Zulily to concentrate full time on their social platform for gamers, husband and wife co-founders Yaprak and David DeCarmine are growing Seattle-based Game Jolt and raising new funding. “We’re building the social community platform for gamers and the types of content they love.”

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GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2020

This is the spectator view for fans watching NBA games “courtside” in Microsoft Teams: the live stream on one side, and your virtual cheering section on the other. My big takeaway: Microsoft and the NBA are on to something with their new tech-fueled virtual fan experience. Look out for me in the virtual stands!!!

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The team behind Magnolia , a Seattle startup providing virtual support and guidance for caregivers, don’t want others to go through what we did. The company launched last year and recently raised $3.5 Fellow Seattle startup Rippl provides virtual health care for dementia patients. million to fund its effort.

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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. As builders of software that helps companies track and hit their goals, Seattle startup Ally can check off a big achievement after winning Startup of the Year.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” has long been a common refrain about the business of social media. But now, this free model of social media — subsidized by advertising — is under pressure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Foundry’s AI survey also identified several roles that companies are looking to hire to help with the integration of gen AI in the workplace. Here are the top 11 roles companies are currently hiring for, or have plans to hire for, to directly address their emerging gen AI strategies.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Facebook, a company known for ripping its ideas from competitors , has reportedly set its sights on social audio. The New York Times reports today that the company is working on a copycat of Clubhouse, the buzzy invite-only social audio startup. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As much as the person with the CIO job understands that the importance of information technology requires that mastering AI is critical to helping the company to get to where it wants to go, they are starting to discover that hiring people with AI talent is becoming harder and harder to do. How Companies Can Deal With The AI Worker Shortage.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook on Thursday unveiled its vision to make remote meetings more immersive with the introduction of Horizon Workrooms, a virtual reality app for team collaboration. But convincing employees to put on VR headsets for conference meetings — or companies to buy the hardware in the first place — could be a tough sell, say analysts.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

companies continue grappling with the implications of permanent remote work and shifting workplace dynamics. We reached out to chief people officers and HR leaders at seven Seattle tech companies to learn more about the biggest challenge they are facing right now with their teams. Annette Snyder. LinkedIn Photo).

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Maybe Facebook (or Epic, or Roblox , or dozens of smaller companies) is trying to take it over. Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people. Support for users creating their own virtual items and environments.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The social network is scaling back facial recognition, but similar technology could show up in the metaverse. While Meta says that facial recognition isn’t a feature on Instagram and its Portal devices, the company’s new commitment doesn’t apply to its metaverse products, Meta spokesperson Jason Grosse told Recode.

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Hacker Earth

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Virtual hiring events are becoming vital for modern recruitment, and the hiring world is changing rapidly. As businesses embrace remote-first cultures and global talent pools, virtual recruitment events are a cost-effective, efficient, and scalable way to source and connect with top talent. What are Virtual Recruitment Events?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The smartwatch would have messaging, health, and fitness features, the report says, and would join Facebook’s Oculus virtual reality headsets and Portal video chat devices as part of the social network’s growing hardware ecosystem. The social networking giant’s hardware ambitions are no secret.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Many workers and executives have learned to appreciate the many positives of remote work, yet for many reasons very few companies will dispense with offices, since they can play a valuable role in highly productive organizations. Humans are deeply social animals. For many people it is their primary place for social interaction.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

This breakthrough technology can comprehend and communicate in natural language, aiding the creation of personalized customer interactions and immersive virtual experiences while supplementing employee capabilities. What sets generative AI apart from traditional AI is not just the ability to generate new data from existing patterns.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2021

A new SEC filing reveals that a Seattle-area company called Aardvark Labs has raised $3.5 Hooper, who previously led virtual reality startup Vreal and also founded Zipline Games and Napera Networks, is listed on the filing. Its product was similar to game streaming sites like Amazon’s Twitch, but for virtual reality.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This is the technology behind Snapchat’s filters, impressive on mobile hardware, and it points to the most promising aspect of face-tracking technology: its implications for socializing in the digital sphere. Other companies however are pushing their understanding of nuances in human expression even further.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2021

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees recently that the company’s long-term goal is to “bring the metaverse to life” — helping to create an interconnected world of physical, virtual and augmented reality spaces that will reshape the way we work, interact with each other, create new things, and generally experience life.

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Vox

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2022, the company saw its stock price drop to a historic low, laid off 11,000 of its employees , and faced intense skepticism from impatient investors about the feasibility of its futuristic metaverse vision. One recently called Meta’s continued spending on it “terrifying” in a recent open letter urging the company to cut back.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2021

Total funding in the 4-year-old company is $5.5 Omnivor is riding the pandemic-driven trend of more companies accelerating their digital technology adoption. It also rolled out Live Holographic Telepresence, a separate product aimed at companies hosting virtual meetings, working in tandem with T-Mobile and its 5G network capabilities.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2024

of Commerce will lead a delegation of companies to the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), taking place in Las Vegas next Tuesday through Thursday. The delegation of six companies includes robotic barista maker Artly — a Seattle-based startup founded in 2020 in a bid to use tech to make the perfect cup of coffee — and others.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2023

American football fans who use the Rec Room social gaming app can now grab their favorite team’s gear for their in-app avatars, just in time for the NFL playoffs. RELATED: Why avatar-based social gaming app Rec Room doesn’t consider itself a ‘metaverse’ company. (Rec Room Image).

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2021

Facebook has acquired yet another developer of a popular virtual reality game, announcing on Friday that BigBox VR, makers of the battle royale VR title Population: One, will be joining Oculus Studios. “ A character in Population: One. Image: BigBox VR.

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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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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Now he’s joined friends to create a new device which helps remind people to socially distance during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the 2020 Summit wrapping up a virtual run this week, we featured several more inventions from Pacific Northwest companies — and found a good reason to catch up with Max.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Just as Facebook’s Antigone Davis was live on CNBC defending the company over a whistleblower’s accusations and its handling of research data suggesting Instagram is harmful to teens , the company’s entire network of services suddenly went offline. The problem also appears to be affecting its virtual reality arm, Oculus.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook is bringing the office to VR with Horizon Workrooms It wasn’t long into a recent press briefing I attended in virtual reality when Mark Zuckerberg showed up to talk about the metaverse. It’s the social network’s first stab at creating a VR experience specifically for people to work together in.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sikorski discusses where attackers benefit from AI and how it will supercharge social engineering attacks. The potential here is staggering, as AI can craft eerily convincing messages in the style of specific individuals, making it a potent tool for phishing attacks and virtually indistinguishable from genuine communication.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2021

Sports and entertainment company Topgolf is officially bringing a full-scale, high-tech golf and gaming complex to the Seattle area, with plans to break ground on Tuesday in Renton, Wash., 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.

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