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

TechCrunch

Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform game engine first released under an open source license back in 2014, though its initial development pre-dates that by several years. It’s basically a software framework that developers can use and reuse without having to redesign the wheel with each new game they create.

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

TechCrunch

The cofounders of Enso , they’ve authored film visual effects tools that help to simulate particles — a data-intensive process. He worked with Brodacka at Flowbox, where Brodacka was responsible for designing and developing image processing libraries for processors and graphics cards. . Image Credits: Enso.

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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.

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The Metaverse Is Not a Place

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Here’s how my thinking about the metaverse was formed by “news from the future” accreting around a technology-development vector: I had a prior belief, going back decades , that the internet is a tool for connection and communication, and that advances along that vector will be important. The audience feels present in the story with them.

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

TechCrunch

Synthesis AI , a startup developing a platform that generates synthetic data to train AI systems, today announced that it raised $17 million in a Series A funding round led by 468 Capital with participation from Sorenson Ventures and Strawberry Creek Ventures, Bee Partners, PJC, iRobot Ventures, Boom Capital and Kubera Venture Capital.

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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).