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Facebook’s new virtual meeting app is ‘great news’ and ‘validating’ for these Seattle entrepreneurs

GeekWire

Facebook today unveiled its vision for the future of work: a virtual reality experience called Horizon Workrooms that uses avatars and VR headsets to replicate in-person collaboration. “It will cause more people to experiment with virtual workspaces and consider using them as a key part of their remote or hybrid teams.”

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RealNetworks releases its first hardware product, a kiosk that checks for proper facemask usage

GeekWire

But the pandemic is pushing many companies to try new things, and the software mainstay is getting into hardware for the first time. “We’re not trying to make any kind of political statement here,” said RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser in a virtual demonstration of the kiosk this week. RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser in 2017.

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January 2017 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

There is a lot going on, in and around data infrastructure server, storage, and I/O networking connectivity from a hardware, software, and services perceptive. The post January 2017 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Tech Moves: Former Ada Developers Academy CEO joins venture studio; Riveter co-CEO steps down; and more

GeekWire

Conduit Venture Labs Photo) — Seattle tech leader Lauren Sato joined Seattle hardware startup studio Conduit Venture Labs as an entrepreneur-in-residence. “Conduit is unique in that hardware is an incredibly difficult space to get into as a standalone founder,” Sato said. Lauren Sato. Kirkland, Wash.-based

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Wyze releasing a $199 ‘Robot Vacuum’ to clean up on competitors in the evolving smart home

GeekWire

The price undercuts other autonomous cleaning devices on the market while still offering many of the premium tech features, such as LIDAR precision location mapping, virtual walls, scheduled sweeps and more. Virtual walls can also be erected to keep the vacuum from entering certain areas. Wyze Images).

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Stuff Worth Reading – September 2017

The Investing Edge

He adds, “Gartner believes that key platform-enabling technologies are 5G, Digital Twin, Edge Computing, Blockchain, IoT Platforms, Neuromorphic Hardware, Quantum Computing, Serverless PaaS and Software-Defined Security.” The post Stuff Worth Reading – September 2017 appeared first on Ascent Venture Partners.

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The next Oculus Quest 2 update brings native wireless PC streaming and a 120Hz mode

The Verge

Infinite Office is a feature that Oculus includes as part of Oculus Home, which lets users work in a virtual environment. The Quest 2 will also be able to show a virtual representation of the Logitech K830 keyboard, though Facebook says that support for visualizing more keyboard models will be coming in the future.