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businesswire | August 17, 2023

Allied Gaming & Entertainment, Inc. a global experiential entertainment company, today announced a strategic investment in Beijing Lianzhong Zhihe Technology Co. (“Zhihe”), a prominent mobile games developer and operator with proven distribution capabilities. AGAE will assume a controlling interest in the Board and become the Company’s largest shareholder. Founded in Beijing in April, 2022, Zhihe has rapidly emerged as a trailblazing mobile games developer ...

Technologies

businesswire | January 12, 2021

Fraunhofer IIS, essential designer of the xHE-AAC sound codec, today reported that Netflix is currently utilizing the xHE-AAC sound codec. Netflix has authorized Fraunhofer's top notch xHE-AAC programming and is utilizing it to encode its whole inventory of TV arrangement, narratives and highlight films across an assortment of sorts and dialects. One of the critical highlights of xHE-AAC for Netflix is the compulsory MPEG-D uproar and dynamic reach control metadata. It permits...

venturebeat | February 01, 2020

The Unity game engine, which powers most of the apps on the Oculus store, now supports the Vulkan graphics API with Oculus Quest. Vulkan is the successor to OpenGL, the industry standard graphics API that has been in widespread use for over two decades. OpenGL is similar to DirectX up to version 11, but controlled by an open industry consortium and is cross platform. Like DX12 for Windows and Metal for Apple hardware, Vulkan is a “low level” graphics API (LLAPI). These APIs give deve...

Anzu.io | August 26, 2020

Berlin-based esports venue developer VERITAS Entertainment has entered a partnership with in-game advertising platform Anzu. The deal will see them collaborate to offer enhanced brand integration to advertisers looking to promote their products within games and esports tournaments. In March, VERITAS raised $10 million (£7.55M) in funding to open the LVL gaming establishment in Berlin. More recently, Israeli-based startup Anzu recently won The Clutch Digital 2020 at ESI Digital Summer....