2020 Sports industry outlook In an Olympic year, “golden” opportunities abound throughout the sports industry

March 3, 2020

In December 2000, reports began to circulate within intelligence communities in the United States and Europe of a powerful new technology acquired by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. It would allow Saddam to upgrade his guided missile programme and place many targets in the west within reach, went the whisperings. The name of the technology was the Sony PlayStation 2. Speculation that Saddam was “hoarding” hundreds of box-fresh PS2s in order to harness their extraordinary processing power was eventually debunked. But not before the Pentagon had thoroughly investigated the rumours.

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Q-dance

Q-dance is a Dutch dance event organization that focuses on the harder styles of dance music, like hardcore, hardstyle, techno and hardhouse. Widely known concepts are Defqon.1 Weekend Festival, Q-BASE, Qlimax and X-Qlusive. Q-dance events are easy to recognize by their names; there's always a Q in it. The Q-dance logo was launched in 2001 with the TURN YOU ON campaign and is inspired by the power button of a computer.

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ATSC 3.0 white paper

whitePaper | February 12, 2022

How the latest standard enables TV broadcasters to mass distribute Internet Protocol (IP) data, creating new business opportunities and delivering critical public service improvements.

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Successful Onboarding with Virtual Reality

whitePaper | June 1, 2021

In order to give new colleagues the best possible start in their professional life and to enable them to work efficiently and unerringly right from the start, it often requires numerous meetings, on-the-job training courses, compliance training and safety briefings. This is not only costly and time-consuming, but also causes a lot of downtime. What if all this information were available in a single, comprehensive package that would enable new employees to learn almost independently? With Virtual Reality, exactly that is possible.

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New realities: How vr will transform the world of work

whitePaper | February 14, 2020

After two decades of talk, hype around potential enterprise applications of VR is finally converting into investment. Researcher IDC says global spending on VR and augmented reality (AR), is expected to hit $160 billion in 2023, up significantly from the $16.8 billion forecast for 2019. The researcher predicts the five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for AR/VR spending will be 78.3%, and that a significant portion of this growth in spending will come from the commercial and public sectors.

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A pragmatist’s guide to the metaverse

whitePaper | August 15, 2022

The metaverse. Isn’t that a place for gamers, NFT collectors and kids playing Roblox? So why do we keep hearing about serious companies— banks, retailers, healthcare organizations— setting up a presence there? Are companies making the jump just because they don't want to miss out? Would it be safer to wait and watch? The answer is that the metaverse is still emerging and is actually years, even decades, from full maturity. Even the naming conventions for this virtual world aren’t settled in yet—is it “the” metaverse, “a” metaverse, "some metaverses"?

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Web3 video streaming platform

whitePaper | January 17, 2023

Web 3.0 and blockchain has shifted power dynamics, from concentrated, centralized power, to diffused, decentralized power. Fundamentally, consumers can now become direct owners, and have direct influence in the products and services they give their time to. This is the power of web3 and of blockchain. We have seen web3 and blockchain changing industries, but now, we are changing the video streaming industry. We are driving the content revolution by enabling viewers to earn every time they watch video content. Every time a viewer watches content on our platform, they earn our native cryptocurrency token -MContent. Our token has immense potential to grow as it is tied to a real-world asset, content.

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Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Predictions 2020

whitePaper | December 13, 2019

MANY PEOPLE MAY be familiar with the frustration of calling up their smartphone’s speech-to-text function to dictate an email, only to find that it won’t work because the phone isn’t connected to the internet. Now, a new generation of edge artificial intelligence (AI) chips is set to reduce those frustrations by bringing the AI to the device.

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Spotlight

Q-dance

Q-dance is a Dutch dance event organization that focuses on the harder styles of dance music, like hardcore, hardstyle, techno and hardhouse. Widely known concepts are Defqon.1 Weekend Festival, Q-BASE, Qlimax and X-Qlusive. Q-dance events are easy to recognize by their names; there's always a Q in it. The Q-dance logo was launched in 2001 with the TURN YOU ON campaign and is inspired by the power button of a computer.

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