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Member Profile: Heather Raikes

Immersive media artist Heather Raikes is the founder and creative director of Neopoetics, a catalyst for innovation in immersive media and kinesthetic experience design. She is also creative director for augmented and virtual reality at 8ninths. For the past two decades, she has pioneered innovation in art and technology, probing, discovering and creating next-generation sensory experiences. What inspired you to …

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Member Profile: Judy Hu

  Judy Hu is the director of business development at Hyperfair, Inc., which offers cross-platform social virtual reality environments to enterprises. What advice do you offer women interested in VR? Hu: I think virtual reality is really interesting. Obviously, virtual reality is something that is perceived as very technical and maybe the idea is that …

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Member profile: Sarah Hill

Sarah Hill is a National Edward R. Murrow and twelve-time Mid-America Emmy award-winning digital storyteller and virtual reality storyteller. Her company, StoryUP, captures reality in virtual reality. Hill recently completed an immersive experience for terminally ill and aging veterans not able to physically travel to see their memorials in Washington, DC with the virtual reality industry on Honor …

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Women Who Tech startup challenge focuses on VR

Press release: Women Who Tech and Craig Newmark Announce the 4th Women Startup Challenge Pitch Competition to Fund Women-led Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence Ventures Judges to Include Robert Scoble, Lisa Stone, Lynne Johnson and Sandy Carter NEW YORK  – Women Who Tech, a national nonprofit working to break down barriers to women …

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Lesbians Who Tech launch coding scholarship honoring Edie Windsor

Lesbians Who Tech, the organization for lesbian and queer women in tech, will select more than ten lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer women to receive scholarships to attend coding bootcamps at General Assembly, Dev Bootcamp and Turing. There is no deadline for applications, and acceptance is on a rolling basis, organizers told WiVR. The coding …

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