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

GeekWire

American football fans who use the Rec Room social gaming app can now grab their favorite team’s gear for their in-app avatars, just in time for the NFL playoffs. A new pop-up shop in the Rec Room app lets users purchase licensed NFL hoodies and hats for their avatars to wear. (Rec Room Image).

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Solar power nonprofit goes digital to bring installation instruction to underserved communities

GeekWire

This fall, the nonprofit launched a partnership with an instructor at Lake Washington Institute of Technology and the Northwest Indian College to pilot a virtual solar photovoltaic training program. The nonprofit has produced its virtual introductory course, and is developing five more units that go into greater depth.

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The Future of Educational Materials: Adapting to the Digital Era

Kitaboo

For example, an audio version of a course allows people with visual impairments to learn comfortably. This can be addressed by creating lesson plans, structuring the course content well, and offering bite-sized content that allows learners to take necessary breaks when required. can be some ways to navigate this challenge.

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Meet 6 women of color-led startups that pitched their businesses in Seattle

GeekWire

” The company uses virtual, augmented, and mixed reality along with AI to create interactive learning experiences. The company aims to scale through a digital course and by licensing its intellectual property, Pham said. Reetu Gupta.

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Here’s why so many video game developers are suddenly abandoning the Unity engine

GeekWire

(Unity image) In the wake of a controversial policy change by game engine developer Unity , dozens of small independent video game studios have announced they’ll abandon the engine and/or have called upon Unity to reverse course. As widespread as it is in console/PC gaming, though, Unity is used virtually everywhere in the mobile space.

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How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day

The Verge

She uses her iPhone and consumer software to make her videos, and I’ve got to say, she has one of the healthiest relationships with the social platforms of maybe any creator I’ve ever talked to: she thinks of them purely as marketing channels for the video courses she sells elsewhere. I have Google Sheets courses as well.

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We asked seven venture capitalists if the metaverse is the next big thing or just a lot of hype

GeekWire

Of course, no one likes to talk about this immersive and interactive virtual world more than Facebook CEO — sorry, we meant Meta CEO — Mark Zuckerberg. Game spaces like Roblox, social spaces like Discord, digital conference spaces like Demio — to me these are all currently existing manifestations of the metaverse.”