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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. On top of that, the company told TechCrunch that it has raised $8.5 Godot editor demo.

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Enso emerges from stealth to help enterprises make sense of their data

TechCrunch

The situation hasn’t changed much in recent years, even as companies invest greater amounts of capital in data initiatives. The cofounders of Enso , they’ve authored film visual effects tools that help to simulate particles — a data-intensive process. The company is actively hiring. Image Credits: Enso.

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Strava acquires Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors

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Strava , the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap , a European company that’s building a high-resolution 3D global map platform for the great outdoors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fatmap in action Image Credits : Fatmap / Strava With 1.6

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The Metaverse Is Not a Place

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Chris Milk, the CEO of Within, the company that created Supernatural, both agreed and disagreed about avatars when explaining the company’s origin story to me in a phone conversation a few months ago: What we learned early on was that photorealism matters a lot in terms of establishing presence and human connection.

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

TechCrunch

CEO and founder Yashar Behzadi says that the proceeds will be put toward product R&D, growing the company’s team, and expanding research — particularly in the area of mixed real and synthetic data. Behzadi, of course, asserts that Synthesis has taken meaningful steps toward overcoming these technical hurdles.

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F2F Still Matters

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. Online you will have an incredibly realistic experience (think how good virtual actors are these days - add 3D - presence based audio - first person shooters).