Virtualization

Successful Onboarding with Virtual Reality

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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Frontiers Sport & Entertainment

Frontiers Sport & Entertainment is a new breed of sports marketing agency offering integrated commercial solutions from strategy, to sales, through to service. Operating for just over two years Frontiers has built up an interesting and varied client base both in South and East Africa .

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

whitePaper | March 3, 2020

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Exploring the barriers to the broad adoption of cloud gaming

whitePaper | March 2, 2022

Cloud gaming has been a sought-after dream in the industry for quite some time. With the global gaming population approaching 3 billion by 2021[1], it is no wonder that all the major industry players, and even some external parties, want to try and create the platform that unifies them all. However, this dream is not a new one to emerge, it has been around for over two decades. While gaming has had significant changes since that time, the dream of cloud gaming has remained the same with very little commercial success. That being said, the direction of other media formats such as movies, TV, and music all point to a cloud based streaming service as an inevitable future for the gaming

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Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Beyond the Hype

whitePaper | June 7, 2022

In recent years, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), entities that use blockchains, digital assets and related technologies to direct resources, coordinate activities and make decisions, have experienced explosive growth. According to the analytics service DeepDAO, in 2021 the total value of DAO treasuries surged fortyfold, from $400 million to $16 billion, and the number of DAO participants increased by 130 times from 13,000 to 1.6 million.1 As DAO innovation has largely been led by the private sector and DAOs are being developed for an increasingly wide variety of purposes, it is critical that policy-makers, regulators and senior executives develop a nuanced understanding of these entities

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ENGINEERING NEXT-GENERATION DIGITAL PRODUCTS

whitePaper | June 7, 2022

Software is rapidly becoming the foundation for most of the ways we work, live and play — a trend known as “softwarization.” Software isn’t new, of course. But what’s changed is the degree to which it determines a product’s user experience, revenue opportunities, longevity, competitiveness, market differentiation and more. Softwarization enables products to become “smart,” connected and even autonomous — capabilities that they didn’t have when software was a limited part of their DNA. For example, passenger vehicles and trucks have relied on software for decades to keep their engines running properly and efficiently. With softwarization, they now can drive themselves and upload granular information about the health and performance of every key component, helping avoid expensive breakdowns.

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metavr

whitePaper | January 11, 2023

This is the Metaverse. There is no doubt that Web3 is here to stay given the widespread adoption of the Metaverse sparked by the involvement of the largest technology players in the world, including Microsoft and Google, as well as business and societal titans such as Nike, Disney and so on.

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IOA® Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Entertainment Media Cloud Ecosystem

whitePaper | April 30, 2021

Explore a new, interconnection-driven paradigm that helps media and entertainment companies improve media content creation, management and distribution workflows — all at reduced costs. See how IOA®) 'shortens the distance' by placing IT and interconnection at the edge, closer to where media content is created and distributed.

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Frontiers Sport & Entertainment is a new breed of sports marketing agency offering integrated commercial solutions from strategy, to sales, through to service. Operating for just over two years Frontiers has built up an interesting and varied client base both in South and East Africa .

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