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

TechCrunch

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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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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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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The Metaverse Is Not a Place

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The metaphors we use to describe new technology constrain how we think about it, and, like an out-of-date map , often lead us astray. In any case, I think of Craig’s newsletter as where the notion that the metaverse is a continuation of the communications technologies of the internet took hold for me. So it is with the metaverse.

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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).