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This smart camera startup helps companies meet COVID-19 cleaning standards by detecting dirtiness

GeekWire

The pandemic is forcing airlines, hotels, universities, and other organizations to adjust standards for keeping high-touch areas free from germs. Quivr’s system includes the high-tech camera that scans the 3D surfaces of a room or venue and can detect liquid disinfectant, as well as the workers themselves. Quivr CEO Brian Monnin.

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Top Technology News Ticker for 3 June 2016

CTOvision

Sources: Snapchat bought 3D selfie startup Seene for its computer vision tech about two months ago (TechCrunch). Paul Allen’s Vulcan buys glam Hollywood hotel for $40.9M. Now HoloLens lets you check your mail in a wall-sized mixed reality version of Outlook - PCWorld. Can We Make A Computer Make Art? Popular Science.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

Then I headed to my default Oculus 3D home screen, a virtual room that looks like a tropical hotel lobby with palm trees, hanging egg-shaped chairs, and views of red rock mountains in the distance — a definite upgrade from the decor of my 500-square-foot studio apartment.