Kitaboo

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Among all the subjects taught at school, social studies remains a challenge for most teachers to teach in an engaging way. It is possible to leverage many other forms of interactive teaching methods – like social studies simulations – to achieve the desired outcomes from a lesson. Table of Contents I. What is a Simulation?

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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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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2020

Amazon is developing a robot that would roll through grocery stores and distribution centers, using banks of ultraviolet light to kill viruses on surfaces. Amazon says it uses its vast camera system for contact tracing and to try to enforce social distancing. Amazon via 60 Minutes). Careful, creative, or creepy?

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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. It’s developing a AI co-pilot dubbed Maggie to provide more accessible support. “I Fellow Seattle startup Rippl provides virtual health care for dementia patients.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

Developers can create and manage “experiences,” and experiences have “max people” allowed. Roblox blurs the line between a large social game and a game engine or sales platform. Users don’t enter a single virtual world like Second Life ; they launch individual experiences created by users. That’s all changed now.

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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. In 2007, he co-founded Chronus , a company that built digital tools for employee development programs. Winners accepted via Zoom — only two forgot to un-mute! .”

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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. Most social media users are already familiar with AR technology, whether they’re aware of it or not.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Virtual reality (VR) technology has transformed how we experience digital environments. This technology simulates environments with striking realism, providing a highly immersive experience for users, and triggering their visual and auditory senses so they feel that they are truly in the moment in a virtual world.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Tanzu Vanguards, which includes leaders, engineers, and developers from DATEV, Dell, GAIG, and TeraSky, provided their perspectives on analyst predictions and industry data that point to larger trends impacting cloud computing, application development, and technology decisions. Especially for new apps or when modernizing existing apps.

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Kitaboo

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Innovative methods are being sought out to help students excel and achieve overall development. That is how technological innovations made their way into classrooms; to help students develop a deeper understanding of subjects and improve the learning experience. Students usually spend a lot of time on social media.

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Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

So much has evolved in the L&D space since the beginning of the outbreak that learning and development professionals have had to abruptly adapt to frequently changing circumstances. Shift to Virtual Training. More Emphasis on Social Learning Methods.

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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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Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Among many such methods, one important method showing immense potential is virtual reality technology. Virtual reality technology makes use of headset devices to impart immersive educational experiences through a 360-degree lens. For this very reason, the virtual reality market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 30.7%

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

student, Allen School; Shwetak Patel, professor and associate director of development and entrepreneurship, Allen School. The team is working on a separate project, which features an AI agent that automatically shares useful information in group chats by analyzing prior social signals within a group.

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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.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Unity image) In the wake of a controversial policy change by game engine developer Unity , dozens of small independent video game studios have announced they’ll abandon the engine and/or have called upon Unity to reverse course. As widespread as it is in console/PC gaming, though, Unity is used virtually everywhere in the mobile space.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

That left a wide assortment of independent developers to fill the gap, many of whom were showing off brand-new games. The actual Seattle Indie Expo runs this month as a virtual event, with streams every Saturday in September. Studio Kumiho is the sole returning developer from GeekWire’s last PAX roundup.

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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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Vox

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The social network is scaling back facial recognition, but similar technology could show up in the metaverse. In fact, Meta is already exploring ways to incorporate biometrics into its emerging metaverse business , which aims to build a virtual, internet-based simulation where people can interact as avatars.

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Vox

APRIL 12, 2024

Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images What the evidence about social media and teens’ mental health really says. So argues the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. This dispute has generated reams of commentary as the media’s middle-aged social media users argue about whether their favorite apps are poisoning their kids.

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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. At NYU Langone Health , researchers are developing an LLM trained on a decade of patient records.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Rec Room , the Seattle-based development studio behind the fast-growing VR application Rec Room , has raised $145 million in new funding, bringing its current valuation to $3.5 I think it’s the nature of social apps to have a compounding effect,” said Cameron Brown, chief creative officer at Rec Room. .” (Rec Room Image).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2021

Topgolf Renton-Seattle will be located off Logan Avenue near The Landing , a sprawling shopping and dining development that opened in 2007, according to Topgolf and an advisory from the City of Renton. million square-foot mixed use development just east of Seattle in Kirkland, Wash. at the southern end of Lake Washington.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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. The protagonist is a master hacker who gets in katana fights at a virtual nightclub. But wait, now Ready Player One isn’t a metaverse and virtual worlds don’t have to be 3D?

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2021

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a Facebook developer conference. but also in its development offices in the Seattle area , where it employs 7,000 people. Facebook Photo). Facebook influences the engineering culture and economy not just in its hometown of Menlo Park, Calif.,

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Kitaboo

AUGUST 27, 2022

Teachers are far more accessible now and act as mentors to help students in their overall development. Social Media in Learning. Who would have ever thought that social media would one day be accepted as part of the learning process? But today, technology has bridged the gap between teachers and students.

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Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Virtual learning environments (VLEs) are not just an option but a thoughtful, necessary choice to achieve desired learning outcomes. streamlining the development of robust virtual learning environments and eLearning tools. The question is, how do you implement such virtual learning environments and reap the benefits?

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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.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Looksery, the Ukrainian startup that developed Snapchat’s filter technology (which Snapchat acquired for $150 million), created software that can not only recognize a human face, but accurately map it to ensure that those fox ears are on top of your head and not floating in space. That is exactly what Veeso is working on.

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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. He’s also put out several iterations of AR/VR headsets before Apple has even launched a single product in this space, giving Meta a head start in development.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The GeekWire Summit returns this week, in an all-new virtual format, exploring the future of science, health, technology and what’s next in innovation. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will speak at the 2020 GeekWire Summit on Thursday at 11:45 a.m. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). The activities begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Among other areas, financial-services firms expect to increase the use of AI in risk management, fraud detection and surveillance, customer communications and efforts to develop new revenue-generating services. companies in all industries last month posted 115,100 job ads for software engineers, a category that includes AI developers.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Multimedia in instructional content development is not just desirable in online learning; it is an essential element. These assumptions , on which the cognitive theory of multimedia learning is based, highlight the need for multimedia integration in instructional content development. Table of Contents I.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Professional development training solutions such as the ones offered by KITABOO not only enhance a teacher’s competence but also ensure that students receive the best possible education. How Does Educator Professional Development Training Enhance Classroom Outcomes? Table of Contents I. Online Learning Platforms 2.2.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality , gamification, and Natural Language Processing, among others, will empower teams to build engaging, adaptive, and personalized content. However, this also means that every team member plays a critical role in content development.

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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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