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

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

TechCrunch

million in seed funding to make its mission a reality, with backers including OSS Capital; Lux Capital; Sisu Game Ventures; and — somewhat notably — Bob Young , the cofounder and former CEO of Red Hat, an enterprise-focused open-source company that IBM went on to acquire for $34 billion in 2019. Godot editor demo.

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

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The cofounders of Enso , they’ve authored film visual effects tools that help to simulate particles — a data-intensive process. A 2021 Databricks and MIT survey found that only 13% of organizations are delivering on their data strategy. Wojciech Danilo and Sylwia Brodacka are well-acquainted with the struggle. Image Credits: Enso.

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

TechCrunch

Behzadi, of course, asserts that Synthesis has taken meaningful steps toward overcoming these technical hurdles. “Leading companies in the AR, VR, and metaverse space are using our diverse digital humans and accompanying rich set of 3D facial and body landmarks to build more realistic and emotive avatars,” Behzadi said.

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The Metaverse Is Not a Place

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

But it’s super hard to do from a technical standpoint and you give up a bunch of other things. Aaron [Koblin, the cofounder of Within] was living in San Francisco, and I was in Los Angeles. Advances in 3D video recording. The audience feels present in the story with them. Meta could learn a lot from mmhmm.

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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).