Computerworld Vertical IT

MAY 31, 2023

The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. Sales of VR and AR headsets have fallen short of expectations.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Faced with the same circumstances, Microsoft chose to do something remarkable with its developer conference: it put on a developer keynote. Microsoft, which usually puts on the most technical conference, just went all in with developer-focused content. But Microsoft did make impactful news yesterday. That’s a platform.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people.

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GeekWire

JUNE 6, 2023

Other tech giants including Microsoft and Meta have rolled out their own AR and VR headsets over the past several years but widespread adoption remains sluggish. Bringing in 3D models into your space was framed almost as an afterthought because how many people actually have 3D models to work with?”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The collaboration was announced during the 2023 Game Awards ceremony, livestreamed from the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday evening. Ken and Roberta Williams’s Colossal Cave 3D has an official release date: Jan. The Nintendo exclusive Bayonetta 3 took the Game Award for Best Action Game.

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Vox

MARCH 7, 2024

Apple , Microsoft , the oil company Saudi Aramco — and, as of 2024, Nvidia. Nvidia was founded to design a specific kind of chip called a graphics card — also commonly called a GPU (graphics processing unit) — that enables the output of fancy 3D visuals on the computer screen. It’s understandable if the name doesn’t ring a bell.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2021

Investors are putting more fuel behind Omnivor , a Seattle startup gaining traction with its 3D holographic content media production platform. Games such as Animal Crossing and Rec Room have been hugely popular during the pandemic as people are limited in their ability to socialize physically. Sway Ventures led a $2.7

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Microsoft’s celebration of the Xbox project’s 20th anniversary continued this week with the streaming debut of “Xbox Pioneers: Creativity & Innovation – Past, Present & Future,” a roundtable discussion between some of the early architects of the Xbox, recorded on Nov.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I have scoured the internet, the Microsoft Store, and my own downloads folder to find all the best Windows apps for whatever purpose you may need. It can get hard to navigate all of my various streaming services, work apps, chats, and social media using Chrome tabs — and it also puts me at greater risk of getting distracted.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In the wake of the Mozilla layoffs, the company behind the famous browser has showed revisions to its product strategy ( Image credit ) Additionally, Mozilla has decided to discontinue Hubs, its 3D virtual environment introduced in 2018, and reduce its commitment to the mozilla.social Mastodon instance. This is impacting all industry players.

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Vox

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The company says it’s bringing legs to its social environment, Horizon Worlds, first, and then will expand to other products. Recent reporting from The Verge and the New York Times suggests that Meta is struggling to get its own employees spending time as avatars in its social VR/AR environment, Horizon Worlds. Courtesy/Meta.

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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

SelfCAD is an ultra-modern browser-based 3D modeling software that enables users to create everything from simple sketches to full-fledged designs. The platform provides highly intuitive 3D modeling tools to facilitate sketching, slicing, sculpting, rendering, and 3D printing.

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GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2021

Sutay immigrated from Turkey and previously led engineering teams at Microsoft and Chef. He previously had HR roles at Microsoft and Mattel. Microsoft veteran and former Amazon Web Services (AWS) leader Harshit Shah joined New York-based Spring Health as chief technology officer. Serdar Sutay. Boundless Photo). Harshit Shah.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 19, 2020

FFA is a social purpose corporation , a type of profit corporation the state of Washington created in 2012, and is funded primarily through corporate partners. FFA has also inked partnerships with groups such as Microsoft for Startups and Bellevue, Wash.-based Womp.ai : Womp allows anyone to easily explore, create, share and make 3D.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2015

In my seven happy years at Microsoft before leaving a couple of months ago, I was never happier than when I was involved in a cool “secret project.”. Last year my team and I contributed for many months on a revolutionary secret project – Holographic Computing – which was revealed today at Microsoft headquarters. 2010 Air Everything.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2021

Badshah is a former Microsoft manager and was most recently vice president at Catalytic Innovators Group, a social impact consulting practice. Seattle 3D laser printing startup Glowforge hired Megan Lutes as general counsel. . Read the story. Alka Badshah. Renewal Fuels, Inc. Renewal Fuels, Inc. appointed Alka Badshah as CEO.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 30, 2023

The tool they showcased, called LifeAt Spaces , was seen and shared millions of times on various social media platforms. As an early-stage consumer startup led by young entrepreneurs, LifeAt is a rarity in a Seattle tech ecosystem dominated by enterprise software or longtime Amazon and Microsoft leaders.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2022

At the same time, it created a virtual world or “metaverse” that enables employees to socialize, form teams, conduct training, and collaborate. “We We are social animals and we do well in direct contact; a lot of rapport and relationship building was not fully replaceable by electronic means.”. The Zoom fatigue factor.

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Vox

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Many of these professionals use 3D modeling in their day-to-day jobs that could justify the headset’s cost. That’s also why Meta announced partnerships with Adobe to put its 3D design software on VR, as well as with Microsoft to put its entire office suite of products on the Quest Pro.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

Nye served as outside counsel for Microsoft and as founder and principal of Madrona Law Group, providing legal support to Amazon and Paramount Pictures. He previously held marketing and product leadership roles at Microsoft, Mercury and Accenture. — 3D content platform Unity Technologies appointed Scott Pitasky as chief people officer.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In a new end-of-the-year post on his GatesNotes blog on Tuesday, the Microsoft co-founder starts by saying that when he and Paul Allen started their software company, the current state of affairs wasn’t exactly their screen-time vision. “The result has been the most unusual and difficult year of my life.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Tread Map is a map-based social media for outdoor recreation that is Waze meets Trip Advisor meets X. Microsoft image via YouTube) Microsoft Hot on the heels of the news that it is creating a dedicated “Copilot” AI key for Windows 11 notebooks and other devices, the Redmond, Wash.-based Tread Map The Wenatchee, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Broadcast from the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles, the Game Awards have been running since 2014. While the public can vote for its favorite games via social media in the weeks leading up to the Game Awards, the public vote only accounts for 10% of a game’s final tally in most of the available categories.

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CTOvision

JUNE 15, 2016

Autodesk looks to future with investments in 3D robotic drones and IoT as a service. Microsoft and LinkedIn: The Potential and the Risk for Marketers. Social Security wants to completely start over - FCW.com. Ford brings Lego GT to Le Mans, doesn't plan on racing that one - Roadshow. Iranian reports hint at huge Boeing jet deal.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

A recent example came earlier this month from the Seattle-based creators of the popular social app Rec Room , which debuted Fractura, an in-game room created as a “research project” to demonstrate how players can use generative AI to create their own content for Rec Room. It may soon be applied to actual gameplay.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The presentation wraps up with some nice videos from Microsoft and Sixth Sense showing visions and demonstrations of the role of video in how we interface with the external world and information. From 2D to immersive HD, 4KHD, and 3D video. From keypad to gestural and tangible interaction. From limited to ubiquitous video interactions.

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GeekWire

JULY 10, 2020

But several of this month’s biggest movers up the list are B2C startups including 3D printing company Glowforge (No. Microsoft plans to provide 25 million people digital job training. Crowd Cow delivers a variety of protein products direct to consumers. Crowd Cow Photo). 41), Educative (No. 78), Skilljar (No. 98), Riipen (No.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

’ Chang , 45, is a tech veteran who spent 16 years at Microsoft and a couple more at Amazon before becoming a co-founder and managing partner at Flying Fish Partners , a Seattle venture capital firm. Facebook parent company Meta has staked its future on the 3D-connected evolution of the internet.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Nick Hughes , CEO of Founders Live, a social network that started as a weekly Seattle startup gathering and turned into a global entrepreneurial community, is stepping down as the local leader in Seattle. Emerson Collective is a social change organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

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Vox

JULY 1, 2022

When Mark Zuckerberg announced last year that Facebook was changing its name to Meta and that, within five years, the company would transition from being primarily a social media company to a “metaverse” one , many people were skeptical, confused, or downright scared. It’s not an operating system like Microsoft Windows.

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Vox

MAY 9, 2023

While OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft were all present, the owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp was reportedly not invited to the meeting. It will also determine whether or not the company maintains its grasp on the social media landscape for the next decade or falls behind competitors, like TikTok.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Rapid development in 3D, AR, VR, new hardware, digital payments, etc., ” Will the metaverse be dominated by big platforms — Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, etc.? Game spaces like Roblox, social spaces like Discord, digital conference spaces like Demio — to me these are all currently existing manifestations of the metaverse.”

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GeekWire

JULY 22, 2020

He previously led youth-sports platform Sports Illustrated Play, which was acquired by Comcast/NBC, and was an exec at social gaming pioneer Zynga. Srinivasan co-founded Watts at Work, an energy analytics service, and was a director of business development at Microsoft. Microsoft Photo). — based 3D Robotics. Greg Greeley.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a groundbreaking announcement about the ChatGPT video feature on the Unconfuse Me podcast, which featured Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Sam Altman, the reinstated CEO of OpenAI, unveiled a major development. HeyGen AI also shines in social media contexts, enabling users to create standout videos for promotions or events.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Colossal Cave 3D After a couple of delays, Ken and Roberta Williams’ update of the classic text adventure Colossal Cave arrived on Jan. Colossal Cave 3D is an explicit reimagining of the original Colossal Cave, as opposed to a remake or sequel. Pacific Drive is due out this year for PC and PlayStation 5.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

The NBA has also enjoyed a 50% growth in subscribers and 52% increase in viewership this season, the CTO adds, attributing the wins to the NBA’s tight partnership with Microsoft and its three-point action plan that began in earnest three years ago. “We And it’s all made possible by a foundation of well-orchestrated information technology.

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Vox

APRIL 10, 2023

It’s a sentiment white-collar workers expressed over and over again, and it’s part of why companies like Microsoft are leaning into AI so heavily in their workplace tools: Not all work is good work. She used ChatGPT to write a greater volume of social media copy, which in turn snagged the company 10 times the traffic it would normally get.

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