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Virtual reality storyteller creates project showcasing historically Black community in Seattle

GeekWire

Yolanda Barton, standing, created a virtual reality experience focused on Seattle’s Central District, a historically Black neighborhood. She has ideas for applications in education and tourism promotions. Barton recently demoed her project at a public library in the community.

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Virtual internships: Tech companies and students adjust as pandemic forces remote experience

GeekWire

And she’s one of 8,000 interns that Amazon has taken on this summer around the world, hosting all of them virtually for the first time. The information technology sector trailed only travel and tourism as the hardest hit industries. due to the coronavirus. Albert Kim. LinkedIn Photo). ” Not what anyone expected. .”

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Startup survival: How a pandemic pivot helped this photo booth company see a bigger picture

GeekWire

Examples of virtual photo booth images created using Snapshot, a web application created by Snapbar. But the company’s single software engineer, originally hired to rebuild Snapbar’s website, was already working on the future — a virtual photo booth. The tourism board of France was a customer.”

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

Hot: AI and VR/AR With digital transformations moving at full throttle, and a desire to stay innovative, it should come as no surprise that use cases for virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence continue to grow in several verticals. And it’s not just applications development where such tools are having an impact.

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Interactive 3D Tour – the effect of full presence!

Galido

Virtual panorama is incomparable with conventional photography. Thus, interactive 3D tours have found wide application in various spheres of human activity. It allows to create the effect of full presence and makes it possible to manage the project, considering interesting objects in every detail. Landscape and interior design.

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2021+ 9 themes for next year and beyond

Trends in the Living Networks

Organizations and individuals are learning how to excel at virtual work, including enabling serendipitous connections with colleagues, balancing work and home lives, ensuring worker privacy, and using an array new technologies including 5G and virtual reality to transcend location.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Webby Award for Web Services & Applications : Paste by WeTransfer. Webby People’s Voice Award for Web Services & Applications : Streamtime. Public Service & Activism (Series & Campaigns): Malaria Must Die Voice Petition by R/GA; Wildlife Tourism Campaign by National Geographic. Collective.

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