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Emotion-detection software startup Affectiva acquired for $73.5M

TechCrunch

” Automakers, suppliers and startups see growing market for in-vehicle AR/VR applications. This division, which will be part of the deal and will operate separately, is profitable, Kaliouby said, noting the software is used by 70% of the world’s largest advertisers to measure and understand emotional responses to media content.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

TechCrunch

How it says it differs from rivals: Tuva uses machine learning to further develop its technology. They’re using that experience to help digital health companies get their data ready for analytics and machine learning. Promises include: Unai wants to make VR interactions look, feel and sound like they do in real life.

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Extra Crunch roundup: NS1 EC-1, Pakistan’s tech ecosystem, SPACs bonanza

TechCrunch

Can advertising scale in VR? It’s not hard to imagine how advertising could be valuable in VR: billboards on streetscapes, magazine covers on newsstands, cereal boxes in virtual kitchens. That said, VR advertising has a ton of untapped potential — but it’s going to take a minute to reach profitable scale.

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10 most in-demand generative AI skills

CIO

Most relevant roles for making use of NLP include data scientist , machine learning engineer, software engineer, data analyst , and software developer. TensorFlow Developed by Google as an open-source machine learning framework, TensorFlow is most used to build and train machine learning models and neural networks.

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3 ways to beat the competition and stay ahead in the Media and Entertainment industry

Trigent

From live to connected TV, desktops to mobile, and new immersive platforms driven by Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) – the transition is for all to see. Advertising models are being revised too in order to factor in this paradigm shift making way for native, vertical, 360-degree, and programmatic ads.

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How Far has Face-Tracking Technology Come in 2016?

CTOvision

To take face-tracking technology one step further, developers have to introduce machine learning to the Viola-Jones Algorithm and teach a program not only how a face can move, but also how various faces can differ. Veeso is building a VR headset that tracks the wearer’s eye and mouth movement.

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Insider’s Guide to the New Holographic Computing

CTOvision

Then below I’ll sketch some initial observations on the relevance for government uses and the world at large. I’ve been writing about virtual reality and augmented reality (the VR/AR split) for a decade, first inside government and over the past seven years on this blog. Technology Context: Ambient Computing. 2010 Air Everything.

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