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Amazon entertainment exec Marc Whitten departs, joins Unity as senior vice president

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Unity’s primary product is its eponymous cross-platform game engine, which it introduced in 2005. The company offers both Unity Create, an assortment of creator tools for game design and 3D modeling, and Unity Operate, which provides business-management facilities such as backend management. Unity raised more than $1.3

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Virtual Reality Operating Simulators: Gamification in Training Surgeons

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The maps are presented in 3D representation. The areas that the simulations work best at teaching are eye-hand coordination and the ability to translate the 2D representations into 3D virtual operating “worlds.”. In 2005, the DaVinci Surgical System successfully allowed a surgeon to train for a delicate surgery.

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The original Ninja Gaiden Black and II code has apparently been lost, so you’re getting Sigma

The Verge

People who missed out on the first 3D-action Ninja Gaiden games released in the aughts (and that other one that we don’t really talk about from 2012) will have a chance to play all three this coming June in Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection , announced for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PS4. We couldn’t salvage them.”

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Prediction: Video-conferencing will help drive increased business travel

Trends in the Living Networks

In the first edition of Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships , which came out in 2000, I wrote in the chapter on managing communication portfolios that the ever-improving quality of video-conferencing would be accompanied by increasing business travel. Back in 2005 I wrote about the quasi-3D Teleportec virtual meeting platform.

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Six Trends that are transforming Living Online: Presentation at Influence conference - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

3D TV without glasses is a reality and not far from commercialization. While 3D efforts using colored or polarizing glasses will continue for some time, the real future is in providing different images to each eye, as in Philips’ 3D TV initiatives. It will also be possible to generate realistic 3D images from 2D video.

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Innovation Timeline 1900 – 2050: what we might invent in the next few decades - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , the prescient Living Networks , which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). Have a look and play with the ideas.

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A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Randal Leeb-du-Toit and I are due to catch up for lunch when he’s back from Silicon Valley, so he can tell me about Outback Online , a new 3D virtual world his company Yoick is creating. He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.