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Idaho startup Continuous Composites inks deal with French manufacturing giant Saint-Gobain

GeekWire

-based startup Continuous Composites has entered into a joint development agreement with leading French industrial conglomerate Saint-Gobain to develop and bring to market the company’s proprietary form of 3D printing. In addition, Saint-Gobain has made a cash investment in the Idaho startup. Continuous Composites set out to change that.

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CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

GeekWire

OneCourt Seattle-based OneCourt makes live sports more accessible to fans with blindness or low vision through the use of a haptic device that conveys hard-to-describe details through touch. Nuheara With an office in Bellevue, Wash. , the Australian company creates smart hearing technology to augment a person’s hearing ability.

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Seattle startup aims to change surgery using AI, computer vision and augmented reality

GeekWire

The system helps clinicians place incisions and guide placement of hardware, such as devices that can help straighten a spine. The 3D sensing capacity of the system enables accurate placement of a surgical implants, including screws for spinal fusion surgery. Allen School of Computer Science at the UW.

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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

We’ve talked to IKEA, and they have 3D images of their furniture line. I can see uses for it in education, in consumers, in entertainment, in sports. Instantly education becomes much more powerful when every subject comes to life in 3D. Apple’s AR hardware is perennially two years away. AR is going to change everything.

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PlayStation 5 review: a big, confident step into next gen

The Verge

It was just as clear when games evolved to support 3D worlds and, later, HD graphics. One of the most surprising things about the PS5 hardware has been how quiet it is. As wild as it looks, the most interesting thing about the PS5 hardware isn’t the console itself; it’s the new DualSense controller. It was obvious.

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Elon Musk called lidar a ‘crutch,’ but now Tesla is reportedly testing Luminar’s laser sensors

The Verge

A Tesla Model Y was photographed in Florida sporting rooftop lidar sensors made by buzzy sensor manufacturer Luminar. The sighting caused a bit of a stir among Tesla watchers, given Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s well-established disdain for the laser sensors commonly used by autonomous vehicle companies to create 3D maps of their environment.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: My Favorite PlayBook apps

Sean Daniel

ScoreMobile – [ view ] This is my second favorite sport tracking app on the iPad (I replaced it with the Canadian TSN/Toronto Sports Network app), so it was nice to see an old favorite in the App World to help me track my hockey, soccer, and football. I was happy to see support here as I use SlackerRadio all the time.

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