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Hexa raises $20.5M to turn images into 3D objects for VR, AR and more

TechCrunch

Hexa , a 3D asset visualization and management platform, today announced that it closed a $20.5 After all, the company was once one of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturers — not exactly entrenched in the 3D modeling space. They also can manage and assess the impact of their 3D content through our platform.”

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Xesto is a foot scanning app that simplifies shoe gifting

TechCrunch

It has a long-standing research collaboration with the University of Toronto, alma mater of its CEO and co-founder Sophie Howe (its other co-founder and chief scientist, Afiny Akdemir, is also pursuing a Math PhD there) — and was actually founded back in 2015 to explore business ideas in human computer interaction.

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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

TechCrunch

“Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. Education = knowledge transfer + social + signaling. 6 investment trends that could emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Metaverse Is Not a Place

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Seen through the lens of the real estate metaphor, the metaverse becomes a natural successor not just to Second Life but to the World Wide Web and to social media feeds, which can be thought of as a set of places (sites) to visit. That kind of shared experience is central to Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of socializing in the metaverse.

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How is UX Design Impacting Retail?

BrainStation Technology

Well, Bloomingdales, Nordstrom, and Selfridges have all partnered with 3D-body-scanning companies to help customers find the right fit without the changeroom headaches. Conscientious shoe brand TOMS used virtual reality to similarly help customers to understand the brand’s social impact. One effective method? Loyalty programs.

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil has recently written an entire book filled with examples of poor interpretability as a dire warning of the potential social carnage from misunderstood models—e.g., Interpreting high-dimensional MNIST data by visualizing in 3D using PCA for building domain knowledge using TensorFlow. Cunningham et.

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How is UX Design Impacting Retail?

BrainStation Technology

Well, Bloomingdales, Nordstrom, and Selfridges have all partnered with 3D-body-scanning companies to help customers find the right fit without the changeroom headaches. Conscientious shoe brand TOMS used virtual reality to similarly help customers to understand the brand’s social impact. One effective method? Loyalty programs.

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