GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2023

A new survey released Thursday from the University of Washington’s Mobility Innovation Center and Commute Seattle reveals travel trends that have taken root three years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We built a physical economy, not a virtual one. Read the full report.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Mytaverse wants to make business travel obsolete with its metaverse for people who would ordinarily be jetting around the world. Read More.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 26, 2020

You may not be able to travel to Japan for the foreseeable future, but you can now take a virtual tour of the country’s secretive Ghibli Museum on YouTube. Read more.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Global business travel is clawing its way back to normal after being decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid shift to videoconferencing and virtual events, according to data from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). Hit hard by the pandemic, global business travel activity plummeted 53.8%

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ComputerWorld IT Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Global business travel is clawing its way back to normal after being decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid shift to videoconferencing and virtual events, according to data from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). Hit hard by the pandemic, global business travel activity plummeted 53.8%

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2020

That was Peter Kern, the CEO of Expedia Group, the Seattle-based online travel giant, speaking this week at the GeekWire Summit. On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring highlights from our conversation with Kern about the future of travel and big cities, and his thoughts on virtual travel. Register here.

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GeekWire

APRIL 8, 2023

Yolanda Barton, standing, created a virtual reality experience focused on Seattle’s Central District, a historically Black neighborhood. Barton recently demoed her project at a public library in the community.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

” The idea is to let people feel and touch in a virtual environment, or manipulate objects from afar with a robotic avatar. “This capability has been our ultimate goal because involving the entire body allows for total immersion in virtual environments.” The 8-year-old Seattle startup received a $1.5 Army medics.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The goal is to help travelers avoid standing in lines and expand the options for dining without having to leave a concourse. Once through TSA security checkpoints, travelers can place orders through the Order SEA website or FlySEA app and pay by phone.

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Amazon says the video is one-way, meaning only the host is on camera during the virtual experience, but the audio is two-way so you can ask questions and make requests. Experiences include a virtual bagel baking lesson. If you take a virtual shopping experience, any purchases are handled via Amazon’s payment system.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 10, 2024

What is a VA (virtual assistant): This question opens the door to a modern profession that encapsulates the fusion of technology, administrative skills, and the evolving nature of the workforce. VAs have the capability to remotely access essential documents How does a virtual assistant work? What exactly does a virtual assistant do?

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2021

LG introduced Reah Keem as a virtual influencer who appeared during its live-streamed CES keynote to unveil the company’s new line of LG CLOi UV-C robots. Virtual influencers aren’t new, but the appearance of a virtual creator at a highly virtualized and socially distant CES really hammered home how weird this event was.

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GeekWire

JULY 2, 2021

After more than a year of lockdowns, states are reopening, travel is picking up, and employees are returning to the office. Notable mentions: virtual events startup Brandlive (No. 77) — An in-person and virtual video and photo booth platform that launched a new gift box venture in response to the pandemic. Snapbar (No.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

The news: Seattle-based health benefits platform Accolade will pay up to $450 million to acquire PlushCare , a Bay Area-based startup that offers virtual primary care. Telemedicine trends: Interest in virtual healthcare is on the rise amid the pandemic as people look for medical advice without going to a physical doctor’s office.

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GeekWire

JULY 17, 2020

The economic fallout was swift, and travel was among the hardest hit industries. GEEKWIRE AWARDS FINALISTS: Who will be named best in Pacific NW tech during live virtual event? . Register here to watch the live virtual event for free at 4 p.m. “We had a lot of momentum going into February. .” on Thursday, July 23.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But as GeekWire reported in March , the 12-year-old startup quickly built out a virtual events platform and saw demand skyrocket. The show goes on(line): As events cancel due to COVID-19, Seattle startup builds a virtual platform. “What we’ve heard from clients is that virtual events are just easier,” Schwartz said.

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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. The information technology sector trailed only travel and tourism as the hardest hit industries. due to the coronavirus. Albert Kim. LinkedIn Photo). ” Not what anyone expected. .”

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GeekWire

MARCH 2, 2024

With all the makings of a buddy road trip adventure, two longtime Seattle friends and tech veterans have teamed up to breathe new life into a popular travel app under the umbrella of a thriving business built around a love for “vanlife.” He explored launching something himself, but the prospect was daunting.

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 30, 2017

Companies in virtually all industries have benefited from the capabilities and functionalities of video conferencing in order to improve internal and external communications as they develop their businesses.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 1, 2020

Last week on The Virtual Excellence Show our scheduled guest was not able to make it at short notice, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to share my own life story and how it relates to the virtual. Hi, welcome to The Virtual Excellence Show. So I thought it’d be worth sharing my story of the virtual.

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Gizmodo

JULY 11, 2020

Time travel is one of those things that fascinate people. Although time travel currently isn’t possible—thank God, as if humans needed another way to make a mess of things—this creator decided to do the next best thing: film his life with the Snapchat Spectacles 3 for a year and create a virtual reality time machine.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Fast Travel Games announced Cities: VR, a virtual reality take on the hit city-building game Cities: Skylines. Read More.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Think of the Wayback Machine as a virtual time machine. With it, you can travel back into the past and view how websites looked at regular intervals throughout history. This can be immensely useful when performing research or fact checking and equally as amusing when chronicling how web design has.

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IT Toolbox

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Grace Bay Resorts, a boutique developer and operator of high-end luxury resorts and branded residences, has turned to CaaS provider AVOXI for a suite of integrated cloud communications - including a cloud-based phone system, virtual contact center software, a VoIP gateway and international toll free numbers.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 28, 2012

Yesterday I gave the opening keynote at Global Business Travel Association Australia/NZ’s annual conference , on The Future of the Global Economy: The Opportunities. My keynote focused on the major economic, technological, and social shifts under way and how they impact business travel and how it is managed in organizations.

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GeekWire

JULY 8, 2020

If you’re going to root, root, root for Mariners in Seattle these days, you’re going to have to do it virtually as baseball has taken on a whole new look in the age of coronavirus. COMING UP: GeekWire virtual event: The Future of Sports. It’s not exactly the same flavor fans get if they travel to Peoria, Ariz.,

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Gizmodo

JUNE 23, 2020

With NASA’s AI4Mars project , you can take a virtual trip around the red planet in the Curiosity rover. If you’ve ever aspired to be a real-life Mark Watney—collecting samples of rocks and dirt on Mars—now is your chance. Read more.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2014

Cody Bunch recently posted a quick round-up of what he carries when traveling, and just for fun I thought I’d do the same. Like Cody, I don’t know that I would consider myself a road warrior, but I have traveled a pretty fair amount. Technology and Travel. What are you carrying these days? Technology Short Take #25.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Seattle-based online travel giant wants us to think about the places we’ll go rather than the things we’ll buy. In an ad for the Quest 2 virtual reality headset, Meta shows how old friends can find new life in the metaverse. Lighter light beer? A crunchier chip? Thinner TVs? It’s right here.” ” Meta.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It was the city’s first-ever virtual bill signing conducted over video conferencing. This was the city’s first time signing a bill virtually, given the ongoing pandemic and social distancing mandates. GeekWire screenshot). The legislation is modeled after a minimum wage standard New York City passed in 2018.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

First-person virtual reality games are great fun; moving around in them, however, often isn’t. The sensation of traveling forward while our bodies remain stationary can cause motion sickness, and for those games where you do move around IRL, there’s the danger of crashing into something. There’s also the risk of.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In a virtual “battery day” event for investors, the recently public company announced that its “solid state” batteries for electric vehicles will charge faster, hold more power, and last longer than traditional EV batteries. “We QuantumScape. QuantumScape’s key breakthrough: a ceramic separator to replace liquid electrolytes.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

(Pathable Photo) — Veteran Seattle-area software entrepreneur Jordan Schwartz joined Sēkr , a San Diego startup that aims to help “vanlife” travelers find campsites and community, as its chief product officer. ” “God, I love it,” he wrote on LinkedIn. ” Founded in 2017, Sēkr raised a $2.25

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Forrester IT

JUNE 28, 2016

In the film, Marty McFly and Doc Brown time traveled to October 21, 2015 and had the opportunity observe potential technologies and experiences of the future. What they saw seems both supremely silly and surprisingly prescient: video conferencing, holograms, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).

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Doctor Chaos

APRIL 10, 2022

It was pretty easy to rack up miles when you have a job that requires travel Sunday through Friday. Some of that has to do with the fact that I have learned a few tips to make my travel life easier. Tip 1: Travel Underwear. As a traveler, I take control of this potential situation. I can’t say I don’t enjoy it.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Zoom said earlier this week it would lift its standard 40-minute limit on free video chats for Thanksgiving Day to make it easier to spend time with friends and family virtually on the US holiday. It’s only a temporary removal of the 40-minute restriction, lasting from midnight on Thanksgiving Day (November 26th) to 6AM ET on November 27th.

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