GeekWire

JULY 2, 2021

Also unique: record breaking investment and M&A activity across the country and in Seattle, as companies take advantage of pandemic-driven trends such as virtual experiences, at-home healthcare, remote education and more. Hootsuite , the widely used social media management platform and a star of the Vancouver, B.C. Snapbar (No.

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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

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? I have a love/hate relationship with virtual events.

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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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Venture Beast

MARCH 23, 2021

Social gaming platform Rec Room has raised $100 million at a $1.25 billion valuation. The funding is a win for user-generated content. Read More.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

From social media to virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, IoT, and even automobiles, algorithms analyze […]. Read Limesh Parekh list four reasons that show that machine learning and AI still have a far way to go on Entrepreneur : Every day we hear and read about how machine learning is changing the face of technology.

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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. In 2022, Erik Cardenas and Mariza Hardin founded Seattle-based Zócalo Health , a virtual care startup serving the Latino population. million to fund its effort.

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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

HiDef is collaborating with Unity Technologies on its social impact metaverse game. It has also hired new executives. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 29, 2023

For one thing, the process is getting faster, as virtual interviews have cut the time it takes to interview and hire to roughly four to eight weeks, rather than being drawn out over months of time-heavy trips. The idea is that this is such a critical decision, it probably shouldn’t be done virtually.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Social gaming platform Rec Room has raised $145M at a $3.5B That is just nine months after raising $100M at a $1.25B valuation. Read More.

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Information Week

MARCH 17, 2022

As the invasion of Ukraine continues, Russian citizens have turned to virtual private networks — boosting demand for the software by 27x — to circumvent the government's blocks on social media and news sites critical of the war.

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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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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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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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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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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In addition, the proliferation of data, and explosion of new data sources such as social media, IoT and mobile further aggravates the issue. Today, business users need trusted data fast to make better business decisions, while BT wants to lower costs, minimize complexity, and improve efficiency.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

I was fortunate to participate in BigPanda's virtual roundtable that included leaders from the travel, retail, electrical utility, and gaming industries – in other words, industries dramatically impacted by COVID and its.

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2023

Virtual Agent, or VA, is the next natural step for significantly better customer and business outcomes. For example, you might present a customer with a choice of channels for engagement such as chat, phone, and social media. What is a VA? Another great example is intent recognition.

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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

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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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. 16, the PlayStation 5.

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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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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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Hacker Earth

DECEMBER 4, 2024

That is why virtual recruitment events are the perfect solution for reaching out to various sources of talents, marketing and selling the brands and employers, and conducting the recruitment process online. What Are Virtual Recruitment Events? Such events have become helpful to organizations in addressing the above challenges.

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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

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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Kitaboo

AUGUST 27, 2022

Social Media in Learning. Who would have ever thought that social media would one day be accepted as part of the learning process? With kids as young as eleven having social media profiles on various platforms, you can’t really expect to keep them away from social media for too long. Interactivity in Classroom.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Humans are deeply social animals. For many people it is their primary place for social interaction. Arguably the main reason organizations will still exist indefinitely as they compete with distributed ventures in the economy of individuals is the degree of trust you build from extended working and socializing with colleagues.

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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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Hacker Earth

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This change is led by virtual interviews as these can be scheduled swiftly and are also easily manageable for companies and candidates. As, more and more sectors in the society embrace the digital change, virtual interviews have turned out to be one way which firms that seek to employ the most suitable candidates can embark on.

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Venture Beast

MARCH 11, 2022

Organizations across the global enterprise landscape have already placed large stakes into this virtual, universal opportunity Read More.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Examples of virtual photo booth images created using Snapshot, a web application created by Snapbar. But the company’s single software engineer, originally hired to rebuild Snapbar’s website, was already working on the future — a virtual photo booth. and generates galleries and sharing capability on social.

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