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Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters

TechCrunch

The brainchild of Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Michael Ermolenko and Kylan Gibbs, the startup’s AI-powered service generates virtual characters primarily for games, but also in broader entertainment and marketing campaigns. “ Inworld is a creative platform for building virtual characters for immersive realities. .

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This startup is bringing precision control for gamers to the humble keyboard

TechCrunch

You wouldn’t drive a car or fly a plane if the only controls you had available were on/off switches for left and right or up and down, and yet that’s pretty much what gamers are stuck with when they control their virtual avatars with their keyboards. And so for those who are buying a notebook, that makes a really big difference.”

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Keep Technologies wants to turn a cup holder into a security guard for your car

TechCrunch

He had already earned the serial entrepreneur badge with CodeGuard, a website backup startup, and his hardware company Claw Hanging Systems. The Atlanta-based startup, which debuted virtually at the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, was officially founded in fall 2020. David Moeller wasn’t looking to start another company.

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10G Challenge Winners Leverage Power of Multi-Gigabit Network

CableLabs

Grand Prize Winner: MediView leverages advanced virtual reality (VR) technology to help patients in rural areas access care from National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers without having to leave their community. Meet the Winners. “We’re all about asking—and answering— What if? What if we could change education?

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Guide to Understanding Spatial Computing: How it will revolutionize enterprises?

Openxcell

Irrespective of the industry type, whether for gaming, film and media, simulation, or even the metaverse, every industry is keen to develop and deploy Spatial capabilities. It enables users to visualize physical surroundings more intuitively and naturally with virtual information. VR makes remote meetings possible.

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The Battle For Your Head Is Underway: VR from Oculus, Sony, HTC/Valve competing at GDC2016

CTOvision

By all accounts it will be the biggest yet for virtual reality. It has become so huge a sub-conference has been organized called the Virtual Reality Developers Conference ( VRDC ). It expands beyond games to help developers produce immersive entertainment of all kinds, from games to CG movies to filmed experiences to simulations.

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What is Cloud Computing? Everything You Need to Know – Architecture, Benefits & Much More

Openxcell

Instead of making substantial investments in databases, software, and hardware, businesses prefer to access their computing power over the internet or in the cloud. Internal clients can supply their virtual resources to develop, test, and execute applications, just like in a public cloud, with metering to bill departments for resource use.