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Spheres, VR series hits paydirt at Sundance

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Kathleen Maher

The three-part VR series Spheres; Songs of Spacetime has sold for a reported “seven figures” to CityLights The film was directed by Eliza McNitt, a 26-year-old VR director whose first VR experience, A Fistful of Stars, showed at SXSW.

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Feeding the Matrix: Banjo puts the world’s photos to work

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Kathleen Maher

Companies are sucking up data and using it to find out everything they can about whatever it is they care about. So far, it's been a way one deal: data flows from us and into the monster maw of enterprise servers. Banjo has it both ways.

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The personal robot is coming for you and your job

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Kathleen Maher

Robots are coming to takes up the slack in human endeavor. What are some of the projects going on that promise to change everything about the way we live and work today.

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Meerkat emerges as the breakout tech at SXSW Interactive

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Kathleen Maher

Streaming video via Twitter is now officially a thing. Meerkat seems to be the preferred live-stream app for stars and politicians and Twitter has acquired the competition Periscope.

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Augment, a market platform aided by AR

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Kathleen Maher

French start-up Augment has a free augmented reality app for Android and iOS that places 3D objects in the device’s ...

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SXSW to spin out V2V tech conference

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Kathleen Maher

The new, smaller festival is designed to connect and promote Internet start-ups. SXSW, the annual three-headed conference/festival is a lot ...

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Art and Commerce and Beer Goggles: SXSW

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Kathleen Maher

South By Southwest started as an annual celebration of the arts but has become a conference where a telecom VP ...