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Snap quietly acquired 3D-scanning startup Th3rd last year

TechCrunch

Snap quietly acquired Amsterdam-based 3D-scanning studio Th3rd in the second quarter of last year, at a time when the company was looking to bolster its AR-powered commerce ambitions. In May 2021, Snap acquired AR startup WaveOptics , a company that supplied the technology that powers Snap’s Spectacles AR glasses, for $500 million.

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Bubble Wrap: How Eurovision Monitors Covid Risk at Events

CIO

While pandemic-driven digital transformation has enabled the media and entertainment industry to stream awesome content 24/7 – digital technology is also safeguarding visitors, performing artist, and crew at the Eurovision Song Contest by monitoring their Covid-19 exposure levels in real time. So, how does it work?

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Bringing the National Museum of African American History and Culture to the world

CIO

A good deal of the traffic has been driven by a QR code deployed across social media channels and other communications outlets to promote awareness of the digital museum’s existence. But thanks to an inventive digital offering, called Searchable Museum , the museum has been able to reach even more.

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VOCHI raises additional $2.4 million for its computer vision-powered video editing app

TechCrunch

According to VOCHI co-founder and CEO Ilya Lesun, the company’s idea was to provide an easy way for people to create professional edits that could help them produce unique and trendy content for social media that could help them stand out and become more popular.

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Product Science, which develops mobile app performance monitoring tools, lands $18M

TechCrunch

At Snap, the Liberman siblings — including Anna and Maria — oversaw an animation studio and worked on Snapchat’s 3D Bitmoji feature, which let users create full-body versions of their avatars. billion in 2021, by one estimate. The brothers moved to the U.S. ” Image Credits: Product Science.

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Proxi is making digital maps cooler

TechCrunch

Proxi is a free, no-code tool for making custom, interactive maps that can be embedded into social media accounts, websites and apps. Proxi launched in mid-2021 , which is when it started picking up that hard traction mentioned earlier. To get those new features going, Haughey and Roney raised $1.2

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The Best Tools for Mobile App Development in 2021

KitelyTech

It also offers a full SDK for Unity3D, the de facto platform for developing games and 3D applications. You can also use Appypie to connect your app with social media apps, including Facebook, Twitter and Google+. The post The Best Tools for Mobile App Development in 2021 appeared first on KitelyTech.

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