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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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

But on Sunday he wound up for a different sport as the Microsoft CEO threw out the virtual first first pitch for the Seattle Mariners before the team’s game against the San Diego Padres. Former Mariners catcher Dave Valle joined Nadella for the socially distanced toss — who needs six feet when you can go with 60 feet, 6 inches?

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2020

The founders of the nonprofit had gathered heaps of anecdotal evidence that tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons could help kids who struggled socially — whether they had autism, ADHD, anxiety or other challenges — learn to more successfully interact with others. It seems, instead, that they shook their die and rolled a virtual 20.

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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Rooom has raised $7 million to take 3D virtual events a step closer to the metaverse -- or at least a lot more entertaining than Zoom calls. Read More.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Rec Room , the eponymous Seattle-based development studio behind the virtual hangout/game creator Rec Room, has raised $20 million. Madrona Venture Group led the Series C round, which included participation from DAG, First Round, Index, and Sequoia. (Rec Room Images). Total funding for the 4-year-old startup is nearly $50 million.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

And GeekWire is here to recognize and celebrate a select few of these groups through our Geeks Give Back Award. 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.

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Vox

AUGUST 12, 2020

The 10-image carousel, which Instagram launched in 2017, has been repurposed by activists, independent artists, advocacy groups, and well-meaning individuals as a means to educate and inform the masses, one slide at a time. How to protest virtually. Consider it something like PowerPoint activism. Defunding the police. Mail-in voting.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

And she’s one of 8,000 interns that Amazon has taken on this summer around the world, hosting all of them virtually for the first time. “Funny enough, we wanted to explore virtual internships as we continue to grow and scale,” Kim said. Albert Kim. LinkedIn Photo). “This was a great forcing function for us.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Seraphine is a virtual influencer, though as her growing fan base quickly noticed, there’s something different about her. Her posts are filled with League of Legends easter eggs, and she released an acoustic cover of “Pop/Stars,” the 2018 League anthem from the virtual K-pop group K/DA. Oh, and she also isn’t real.

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CTOvision

MAY 7, 2014

Geoevents-chef-installer: A set of Chef recipes (think of them as macros to automatically build a running Virtual Machine) that will work to set the geoevents app up on either a local Virtualbox VM or onto an Amazon Web Service VM. It is also designed for social codeing, helping developers collaborate around projects.

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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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The Verge

JULY 23, 2020

The social, lovable robot went viral on Twitter last March when it performed a jaunty dance after telling owners, “The servers out there that let me do what I do will be turned off soon.” That meant its ability to perform many social interactions would wind down on an undefined date, effectively killing Jibo.

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Venture Beast

MAY 21, 2021

Roomkey hopes to carve out its own slice of the metaverse with an avatar-driven online event world for groups smaller than 40 people. Read More.

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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. million last week led by Acequia Capital, with Madrona Venture Group, Graph Ventures, and Inventures Collective also investing.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Virtualization. (31). Burton Group blog. Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the Field. IT Transformation. (13).

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Venture Beast

JUNE 15, 2021

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Fan Groups, an improved Facebook Groups experience for creators and their communities on Facebook Gaming. Gaming Fan Groups will help Facebook’s streamers, dubbed Facebook Gaming creators, and their fans develop deeper… Read More.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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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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

AUGUST 20, 2020

The group currently works in 782 high schools across the country and figures from 2018 show that the students they met with were 18 percent more likely to apply to a college or university and 19 percent more likely to get in. “It’s impossible to list all the ways that COVID-19 has upended America’s education system,” Gates said.

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Kitaboo

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

But in the classroom, the instructor would guide them and engage in practical learning with experiments, group discussions etc. And for this, teachers use various means such as augmented reality, interactive eBooks , or conduct pop quizzes, give group assignments. Students usually spend a lot of time on social media.

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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. The group also built a device that can identify hints of narcotics and explosives in the air. Proud to be nominated with this group of rock stars. Love this town.

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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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Coatue Management led the latest round, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and Madrona Venture Group. Rec Room is among of group of community-based social gaming and entertainment apps that rely on user-generated content and have seen huge upticks in growth during the pandemic.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

An Amazon employee group has taken some hits recently, but vows to keep fighting for members concerned about the company’s impact on the environment and people of color. The resolution received only 6% approval at the May 27 virtual meeting. GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg). The organization is undeterred.

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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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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Companies are now getting a constant flow of real-time customer data from websites, social media, and POS terminals that automatically capture clicks, likes, and sales transactions for analysis by business intelligence systems. Social media is crucial for companies to engage with their market to promote ideas and gather feedback.

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CTOvision

MAY 26, 2014

By 2030 we should expect to have virtual adjudication in many cases. The connected world of this era will have far more online petitions, fundraising, lobbying, grassroots efforts, pressure groups and protests. And consider having more online adjudication of both civil and criminal cases online. This is just one domain.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 12, 2021

. “We’re big believers in social play,” Fasulo, Starform’s CEO, said in an interview with GeekWire. In groups that are highly attuned and sensitive to each other, ideas can flow and grow.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Seattle-based FFA just wrapped up a virtual version of its eight-week Ready Set Raise program, which requires each company to have a female or non-binary CEO. FFA initially started as a private Facebook group of women who wanted to help support female founders and entrepreneurs. based venture capital firm Trilogy Equity Partners.

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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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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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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. Those were applied to prevent a mirroring effect, a PR rep for The Famous Group said.).

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2022

Right now, the metaverse is essentially an undefined amalgam of technologies and concepts including but not limited to augmented reality (AR), avatars, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, extended reality (ER), mixed reality (MR), NFTs (non-fungible tokens), virtual reality (VR), and Web3. Follow the money. Get on the train.

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Fountainhead

MAY 13, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Virtualization. (31). Burton Group blog. Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Monday, May 13, 2013. A Tour of Switchs SuperNAP. After all, how impressive can a co-location facility be?

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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. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.

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GeekWire

APRIL 14, 2023

The company shifted to virtual meetings with the onset of the pandemic. Some environmental and social groups appear to have been emboldened by those close calls. Amazon’s meeting will be held virtually again this year, at 9 a.m. Shareholders voted down all 15 resolutions last year. Pacific on Wednesday, May 24.

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