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Kai XR offers students a unique look into their futures. Kai Frazier is a woman on a mission who wants to know why we aren’t building technology for children. The dedicated Techstars entrepreneur has always shown a passion for the difficult, yet rewarding work of teaching students. In 2017 she sealed her commitment to the cause when she sold almost all of her possessions and moved across the country to found Kai XR, an immersive “edtech” start-up focused on getting emerging technolog
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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
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It’s a while I haven’t written a gaming review on this blog, so let’s break this long time interval with the review of one of the cool new games for the Oculus Quest : “In Death: Unchained” In Death is a famous VR game for PC by Solfar Studios, and the game has been recently ported to Quest by the startup Superbright, for a new title that has been called “In Death: Unchained” Let’s see how it is!
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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
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Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
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