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

GeekWire

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. The startup is aiming to ride tailwinds driven by the pandemic that caused massive adoption of video conferencing tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. billion in 2026.

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Smart Audio: What Tech Innovations In Sound Will Fuel New Experiences?

Forrester IT

We’re used to great audio for music, videos, and calls. Now many of us talk to virtual assistants on our smartphone and increasingly on smart speakers (clients see The State Of Voice Assistants, 2019). Audio experiences are getting an upgrade.

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

GeekWire

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. Amazon Photo) Almost eight months after closing its $3.9

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Bumble’s new Night In feature is an attempt to break the ice on virtual dates

The Verge

Dating app Bumble has announced Night In, a new feature that lets you play games on a virtual date. However, Bumble says it plans to offer more games and virtual experiences in the “near future.”. Night In is an expansion of Bumble’s existing video dates feature, which it launched back in 2019.

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Roblox has big plans for virtual music events

The Verge

On a Friday night in September, more than a million people showed up to an album launch party inside the virtual world of Roblox. American pop star Ava Max held a “virtual fan meetup” in the game to celebrate the launch of her new album Heaven & Hell. They’re events that have attracted millions of virtual attendees.

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Aflac virtualizes the customer enrollment experience

CIO Business Intelligence

Our agents sell to small, medium, large businesses at their work site and now there was no work site,” says Gilbert, who signed on as CIO at Aflac in 2019. “So Virtualizing policy enrollment. Hosted on AWS, the Virtual Enrollment Experience developed by Aflac includes a microsite customized for each account. “We

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Telemedicine startup Bright.md raises more cash as interest in virtual healthcare surges

GeekWire

million investment round for its AI-powered virtual healthcare service. Virtual healthcare services such as Bright.md “Healthcare will begin at the virtual front door, making healthcare delivery more efficient and allowing patients to get better care and providers to deliver it virtually and expeditiously.”