TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Be My Eyes, which lets blind and low vision folks ask sighted people to describe what their phone sees, is getting a “virtual volunteer” that offers AI-powered help at any time. But the video accompanying the description is more illuminating. You can watch the video below.) You can read more about GPT-4 here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

All over the world startups are piling into the space marked “virtual interaction and collaboration”. Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. Cosmos allows users to create virtual venues by combining game mechanics with video chat.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Brett Martin, the co-founder and president of Kumospace, believes a core piece to easing the transition is workplace collaboration tools — especially video chat tools that foster a “virtual office” feeling. He’s biased, of course — Kumospace sells a video chat platform. Image Credits: Kumospace.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

But everyone’s already gotten a taste of virtual events, and their many ups and downs. The tech side of things can get remarkably complicated, and it’s hard to make a virtual show more compelling/interactive/engaging than a YouTube video would be. Zuddl , a virtual events platform, has raised a $13.35

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Events — when they haven’t been cancelled altogether in the last 12 months due to the global health pandemic — have gone virtual and online, and a wave of startups that are helping people create and participate in those experiences are seeing a surge of attention — and funding.

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CIO

AUGUST 19, 2022

Virtualizing policy enrollment. First, Aflac built microsites to give agents and customers access to insurance products, videos about coverage, and data about each of the policies available, as well as e-forms and a decision support tool to help customers decide which policies best suited their needs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

After operating in beta for a year, Nooks, a virtual workspace space targeting distributed teams, has attracted thousands of users and millions of dollars in venture capital. This is Kevin Hartz’s second investment in a virtual HQ, with his first in Gather. Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The video game industry is no exception to this, and that hardly comes as a surprise. 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. Image Credits: Inworld AI.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Daily , the makers of a developer platform for real-time audio and video, has been booming in recent months — in part, due to the pandemic’s impact on remote work, virtual events, telehealth and more. “We believed back then and have believed for a while that video would be everywhere. Teamflow lands $3.9

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

100ms , the live video conferencing infrastructure startup based in India, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps, coming barely five months after they closed the seed round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

As concerts and live events return to the physical world stateside, many in the tech industry have wondered whether some of the pandemic-era opportunities around virtualizing these events are lost for the time being. The virtual concert industry didn’t have as big of a lockdown moment as some hoped for.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

InEvent , a startup powering virtual and hybrid events, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from Storm Ventures. ” Put another way, InEvent is less focused on replicating giant consumer events and more on helping businesses hold virtual events where they can connect with clients and partners.

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CIO

APRIL 14, 2023

A record number of participants turned out for a discussion group with one of our speakers, Tom Kouloupolous , futurist and chairman and founder of Delphi Group, during our April virtual summit, CIO’s Future of Cloud and Data. Indeed, interaction is what makes a virtual summit a conference vs. a webinar. Text chat was different.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Virtual meetings are a fundamental part of how we interact with each other these days, but even when (if!?) Like mmhmm, Memix is today focused on building tools that you use on existing video platforms — not building a video player itself.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Like “TrueSelf Scan,” the name of the initial application that’s used to scan a person’s image, the meeting software also will not require a VR headset to use and engage with — users will be “seated” in a room that will be shown on a video screen.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

NTWRK , a video shopping app that has helped to popularize the idea of livestreamed commerce in the U.S., The company has been working to capitalize on the growing interest in live commerce and creator content, and shifted into live virtual events and festivals as COVID-19 ravaged the U.S. Are virtual concerts here to stay?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded in 2005, NetEase is now known for its news portal, music streaming app, education products and video games that compete with those of Tencent. “IMVU operates one of the world’s oldest, yet most vibrant and young — in terms of our user base — metaverses. It is a natural fit for us to become partners,” he added.

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CIO

JUNE 12, 2023

Virtual Agent, or VA, is the next natural step for significantly better customer and business outcomes. In this case, the VA may send links to related resources or a “how-to” video that’s directly embedded in the message, so all the customer has to do is click “play.” What is a VA?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company’s first product, Read Dashboard, is a dashboard for virtual meetings that leverages artificial intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing to measure engagement, performance and sentiment among participants. Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue. Read Dashboard.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Twine , a video chat startup that launched amid the pandemic as a sort of “Zoom for meeting new people,” shifted its focus to online events and, as a result, has now closed on $3.3 Unlike one-to-many or few-to-many video broadcasts, twine connects a small number of people for more intimate conversations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

What that six-year-old outfit, Speach , sells is essentially knowledge-sharing between colleagues via videos produced by the employees themselves, often to augment written instructions. Weet already features instant recording, screen sharing, virtual backgrounds, video filters, emoji reactions, commenting options and auto transcription.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Related to this move, Epic Games’ “ Fortnite Mode” feature , which leveraged Houseparty to bring video chat to Fortnite gamers, will also be discontinued.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Grain , a four-year-old, fully remote startup that’s finding increasingly elaborate ways to capture video snippets of online meetings to make important moments easy to share, search and save, has raised $16 million in Series A funding led by Tiger Global Management. The pitch is compelling.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

His virtual meeting platform is the latest to receive venture capital funding — $13.5 Taking a cue from Nanit’s own baby monitors that were streaming video over 17 hours a day, the idea for Vowel was born, and the company began to focus on the hypothesis that distributed work would be prevalent. 3 views on the future of meetings.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

SoWork, a virtual co-working startup, began after Punwani and his co-founders decided to build a machine learning edtech company. So, combining their love for building and gaming, the group put together an internal communication product inspired by virtual worlds. Permanence is the elephant in the room for any virtual HQ.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2024

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. SoftIron introduced VM Squared , a virtualization platform focused on ease of deployment, in March.

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Xebia

JULY 25, 2023

We’ve also utilized AI to produce our very own music videos, creating a rich visual narrative that harmonizes perfectly with our music. Every frame of these videos is a testament to the power of AI in generating compelling visual art. RunwayML Gen-2 harnesses the power of AI to transform textual descriptions into dynamic videos.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The company offers a remote patient monitoring platform that enables clinicians to monitor patients at home and provide personalized feedback via texts and “video visits” Doccla says it can also measure patients at home. The latter recently raised $41 million in funding from Thrive and General Catalyst.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

BoxedUp takes a fresh look at the space, creating a rental marketplace — a Turo or Airbnb for video equipment if you will — where equipment owners can offer up their gear for rent. ” The company originally started as a rental company focusing on camera kits aimed at video conferences, virtual events and similar use cases.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Butter , a startup registered in Denmark but operating fully remote, is building an “all-in-one” platform for planning and running virtual workshops.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Jamm sells what it calls “1-click video collaboration for teams,” while Streamable helps other companies upload and stream their videos. After acquiring StreamYard, which provided video livestreaming services, it’s not hard to discern that video is the locus of Hopin’s checkbook focus.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

“When it comes to learning and personal development, no amount of generic articles or watching pre-recorded videos [can replace] a real person with experience in a given area. ” TaskHuman users connect with experts over live video chats.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Roam’s Map View lets workers see what’s going on and have “project presence,” Lerman says, as well as chat with colleagues via text or video chat. In fact, there are dozens of virtual HQ platforms , some venture-backed and some bootstrapped, mixing gamification and productivity into a service.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. Screenshot of the Ameelio video call scheduling interface. The result is poor service at maximum price.

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MAY 31, 2022

This led to a forced transition to virtual campus recruiting—which turned out to be a good thing so far! Virtual campus recruiting doesn’t demand a huge budget, eliminates geographical constraints which widen your talent pool, and provides an improved candidate experience to today’s digital-savvy generation—it is a win-win all around.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 1, 2022

Leverage the learning from virtual training– lot’s of insights on how to deliver high-ROI leadership training. The post Asking for a Friend 2021 Video Highlights (Part 1) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Remote work and hybrid teams are here to stay. Connection matters now more than ever.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

Connectivity Chances are you’re conducting to more virtual meetings than ever before. Reliable connectivity is a must-have, but so too is high-quality audio and video functionality. The HP Dragonfly Series is embedded with HP Presence for high-quality audio and video conferencing.

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