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Read the room — virtually: Seattle startup lands $10M to analyze your face and voice on video calls

GeekWire

David Shim , Elliott Waldron , and Rob Williams helped build location analytics startup Placed, which was acquired by Snap for more than $200 million in 2017. Their new company is Read , which just announced a $10 million seed round for its software that measures engagement and sentiment of participants on video meetings.

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Amazon adds new Prime benefit with One Medical virtual and in-person health care service

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Amazon’s Prime One Medical membership benefit includes 24/7 virtual care through the service’s app. For $9 a month, or $99 a year, Prime members can get access to One Medical’s on-demand virtual care or in-office care at locations across the U.S. billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 , and its $8.5

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Virtual Bookshelf: Your All-You-Can-Read Digital Library

Kitaboo

What is a virtual bookshelf? As the name suggests, a virtual bookshelf is an online space that allows you to store the books you are reading or track the ones that you want to read in a virtual environment. A virtual bookshelf is a programmatic method to create an interactive bookshelf to store and read digital books online.

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Prezi is releasing new video features to make virtual teaching more exciting

The Verge

But the company has expanded in the past year, with a new focus on incorporating both live and recorded video into presentations. The first is a “video in video” feature, which will allow presenters to place recorded video on the screen next to them during live (or recorded) streams.

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I had a blast playing ‘Squid Game Virtuals’ at a VR arcade — but here’s why I likely won’t return

GeekWire

(Sandbox VR Photo) After years of hype, virtual reality still hasn’t achieved mainstream consumer adoption. We spent a weeknight at Sandbox VR in Seattle, one of more than 45 locations worldwide where the San Francisco-based startup offers virtual reality experiences for groups of 2-to-6 people.

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The FDA just approved the first prescription video game — it’s for kids with ADHD

The Verge

It might not look like much of a video game, but Akili Interactive’s EndeavorRX, formerly Project EVO, may go down in history: it’s the first video game that can legally be marketed and prescribed as medicine in the US. Now, a prescription video game is a real thing. Akili Interactive. It’s not in the future anymore.

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Microsoft Teams getting breakout rooms, virtual commute, and new ‘Together Mode’ backgrounds

GeekWire

Microsoft Teams is getting several updates as part of the company’s virtual Ignite tech conference this morning, looking to keep pace with its rivals and keep up with the demands of users increasingly relying on the collaboration technology as critical infrastructure for remote work and learning.