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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

TechCrunch

” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project. ” Active Replica was founded in 2020 by Jacob Ervin and Valerian Denis. Adhering to web standards, Hubs supports all the usual headsets and goggles (e.g.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Midwest VC boom, advice for CISOs, Facebook’s next chapter

TechCrunch

billion in all of 2020. Regions like Denver and Chicago “are crushing their 2020 venture capital tallies, results that were at times already at or near record highs,” report Anna Heim and Alex Wilhelm in today’s edition of The Exchange. “You already know why cybersecurity investment is essential to your role.

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6 Tech Trends that will reshape Media & Entertainment in 2021

Trigent

By 2024, Over-the-top (OTT) media revenue is predicted to touch $158.84B that’s more than double the $67.8B Here’s our take on 6 technology trends that will influence the media and entertainment world this year. Adoption was less and the price of AR/VR devices was pretty high. revenue that was generated in 2018.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

Ajax Ajax Systems makes professional security systems in Europe. Secured seed finding from SMRK VC. Deus Robotics Ukrainian Startup Deus Robotics secured a $1.5M G-Mak “The innovative security device equipped with a number of unique technological solutions that can physically stop or disorient an intruder.”

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Radar trends to watch: August 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Here’s a glimpse at Facebook’s VR glasses. They are still proof-of-concept, but this prototype (along with Apple’s rumored product, and Google’s continued interest ) means that nobody can count VR out. TikTok , the social media site for short videos, has over 800 million active users. Technology and Society.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

TechCrunch

Founded: 2020. How it says it differs from rivals: GrowthBook says that an existing SaaS solution, LaunchDarkly, requires a company to send them all of their data, which poses high costs and security concerns. Promises include: Unai wants to make VR interactions look, feel and sound like they do in real life. Sounds good to us.

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Throwback To Our Top 7 INNOVATIVE Hackathons

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In 2020 when covid-19 was at its peak, HackerEarth in collaboration with IIMB launched the HackCOVID hackathon. Pride Hackathon 2020. Live Love Be: AR/VR Hackathon 2.0. Open Innovation: Participants were asked to ideate and create a prototype on anything in the domain of AR/VR to help businesses scale. hackCOVID 2.0.