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Rec Room teams up with NFL in latest partnership for Seattle gaming startup

GeekWire

” In the Rec Room app, players can create and customize avatars, then use them to participate in a wide variety of user-created activities, such as sports, paintball, or simple social interaction. A new pop-up shop in the Rec Room app lets users purchase licensed NFL hoodies and hats for their avatars to wear.

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Drink in hand: Amazon adds age verification to its palm-scanning tech to speed alcohol sales

GeekWire

Customers enrolled in Amazon One can add age verification by uploading a photo of the front and back of an ID, such as a driver’s license, as well as a selfie, on the Amazon One site. The new feature is being introduced at Coors Field, home of Major League Baseball’s Colorado Rockies.

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Final Fantasy director’s Paralympics RPG is launching next month

The Verge

The first project from Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata’s new studio JP Games will finally be released next month, the company has announced. The Pegasus Dream Tour is a mobile RPG themed around the Paralympic Games, the first game ever to carry the official Paralympics license.

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Funko getting into NFTs by combining physical and digital pop culture products and acquiring key app

GeekWire

-based maker of toys and figurines announced Thursday that it is acquiring a majority stake in TokenWave, developer of TokenHead , a mobile app for showcasing and tracking non-fungible token (NFT) holdings. the 22-year-old company had its best quarter ever domestically, with sales up 18% to $171 million. Funko CEO Brian Mariotti.

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With mandate in effect, CLEAR app gets official OK in Seattle area as vaccine verification method

GeekWire

CLEAR , the New York-based identity company, has been approved by Public Health as a trusted vaccine verification tool in the Seattle area. The company has already established partnerships with Seattle professional sports teams, including the Seahawks, Sounders FC and Kraken. .

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Uncommon Thinkers: UW prof and entrepreneur Shwetak Patel has a rare ‘creative brilliance’

GeekWire

He isn’t a licensed electrician. Sears acquired the company’s technology in 2015. Photo courtesy of Patel) More recently Patel has been immersed in medical technologies , co-founding a health monitoring company called Senosis Health that was acquired by Google in 2017. Read other profiles here.

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Polaris and Optimus Ride are co-developing ‘fully autonomous’ low-speed shuttles

The Verge

Autonomous shuttle startup Optimus Ride and power sports vehicle manufacturer Polaris are teaming up to co-develop a new lineup of vehicles that will be low-speed, electric, and self-driving. Optimus Ride isn’t the only company staking out a position in the low-speed autonomous shuttle space. Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge.