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Playing The Go Game
49 months ago
Despite the cold and the rain (check out my awesome rain boots, huh?) I set out to visit the HQ for the Go Game, a company that specializes in creating team building events and get-togethers. From their website:
The Go Game stages technology-fueled, creative games and activities for team building, marketing programs, sales training and just pure fun. Based in San Francisco, we stage unique, interactive events and scavenger hunts for groups of 3 to 10,000 players anywhere in the world
Joined by some of my friends, including my endlessly patient partner-in-crime Ryan Block, we traveled around the Mission district of San Francisco, completing quests and finding clues. Check out the video to see who was victorious!
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Chiptunes with 8-Bit Band ‘The Glowing Stars’
19 months ago
The Glowing Stars are a relatively new band in the 8-bit scene, but they’ve already played a huge show with Anamanaguchi and Peelander-Z at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco! Oh, and they totally rocked it, too. In this episode of Tech Unexpected, I went down to their practice space to talk to them about how they create their video game-inspired tracks, and we even get some samples from Terry Cruze to make a brand new piece of music!
Here’s part of their performance from DNA Lounge!
If you want to download the song we (ok… they) made, called Cruzeratta, click here! They’re also on Twitter too.
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3D Laser Backpack at UC Berkeley
19 months ago
Professor Avideh Zakhor and her team at UC Berkeley have created an incredible backpack that creates 3D models of the space it’s in, using multiple lasers and cameras. This has really far-reaching uses, including video games, augmented reality, and interior modeling and design. Check out her page for more info.
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Cruzearati coverage of SXSW Interactive: Accelerator and Plutopia
110 months ago
SXSW may just have finished, but we’re still cranking out the videos of everything we filmed over the past week. Phew! Two of the main events that we covered, the annual SXSW Accelerator (Presented by Microsoft BizSpark) and the very unique Plutopia event, are below.
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