Gaming and the Future of Experience Design

April 2, 2020

As digital interfaces become more immersive, game design is the paradigm we need to adopt to best serve our customers. A bold statement, yes, but the evidence is in accelerating trends on user engagement, ubiquity of technology, and maturity of experiences. Video gaming leads all other forms of entertainment For a dramatic illustration of how important game design has become, just check the high scores. The medium has outpaced all other entertainment categories in revenue and profit, pulling in $116 billion globally in 2017, compared to $105 billion for TV and streaming TV, $41 billion for movies, and $17 billion for music.

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SAG-AFTRA

With national offices in Los Angeles and New York, and local offices nationwide, SAG-AFTRA is the iconic American labor union that represents approximately 160,000 media professionals. Our members are the talented faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. They are actors, announcers, broadcasters, journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers and voiceover artists.

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Green Earth Metaverse

whitePaper | January 6, 2023

Green Earth Metaverse enables the bridging of virtual in-app metaverse player activities with climate change initiatives enabling a real world impact on our world. Utilizing blockchain and gaming technology we enable the ability to farm, build, explore in-game quests and activities to correlate with real world organizations who are fighting climate change and its devastating impact on our world. Green Earth Metaverse vision is to support a self-sufficient community by creating engaging gameplay and incentives to promote and support climate initiatives. By creating such an ecosystem we can contribute to the climate change effort by making one of the most popular forms of interactive media in the world.

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Build Modern Data Streaming Analytics Architectures on AWS

whitePaper | May 17, 2022

Modern data architecture is about using the right tool for the job. It acknowledges that a “one size fits all” approach leads to compromise, and a solution that is not optimized for anyone. With modern data architecture, customers can integrate a data lake, data warehouses, and purpose-built data services, together with a unified governance layer, to create a system without boundaries, enabling data-driven decisions

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VR for Soft Skills Training

whitePaper | June 22, 2022

High-quality Virtual Reality (VR) equipment has become more affordable during the past few years, leading to its wide-scale application in a number of industries. One of the main areas in which VR is being used is in corporate training.

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NVIDIA STUDIO EDUCATION PARTNER PROGRAM

whitePaper | March 10, 2020

NVIDIA GPUs are used by the world’s top creative professionals to create stunning content and visual effects. GPUs with NVIDIA RTX™ technology help artists work seamlessly and produce works that practically cannot be done on any other platform. From film and television to animation, interactive media, and game design, the industry relies on NVIDIA GPUs.

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Media nations: UK 2022

whitePaper | August 17, 2022

This is Ofcom’s fifth annual Media Nations report, a research report for industry, policymakers, academics and consumers. The main objectives of the report are to review key trends in the media sector and set out how audiences are served in the UK. We adopt a cross-platform perspective, including broadcast TV and radio, as well as digital delivery including online video and audio streaming. As in previous years, this report is accompanied by an interactive report containing an extensive range of data. We also publish separate reports for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales covering specific themes and issues relevant to those nations.

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PLAYA3ULL Games Whitepaper

whitePaper | June 2, 2022

PLAYA3ULL GAMES is gaming designed backwards. We ask you what YOU want and build the game for you. You get to be involved in the important decisions and even have directional say through the DAO

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Spotlight

SAG-AFTRA

With national offices in Los Angeles and New York, and local offices nationwide, SAG-AFTRA is the iconic American labor union that represents approximately 160,000 media professionals. Our members are the talented faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. They are actors, announcers, broadcasters, journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers and voiceover artists.

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