by Jason Harper | May 7, 2015 | Telehealth Pilot
In the middle of Missouri, medical technology is making big improvements to the quality of life for seniors. TigerPlace, a senior housing facility outside Columbia, is home to a pilot project that is allowing nurses to use sensors installed in residents’ apartments to...
by Jason Harper | May 6, 2015 | Gigabit Ecosystem Building
Kansas City’s game community got a front-row view to the future of cloud-based gaming on Saturday at the Google Fiber Space when Colin Williamson, director of partnerships at Shinra, dove into his company’s supercomputer-powered, fiber-enabled streaming...
by Jason Harper | May 4, 2015 | Gigabit Ecosystem Building
Imagine being able to take a full, 360-degree, spherical, panoramic picture of the room you’re in right now, from the stack of papers on your desk, to the walls on either side of you, to the wastebasket in the corner overspilling with to-go coffee cups, the dusty...
by KC Digital Drive | Apr 27, 2015 | Gigabit Ecosystem Building
Kansas City has been building up an ecosystem for early stage gigabit applications for going on four years. PlanIT Impact, Start Talking, Big Bang, Sportsphotos and SightDeck are just a few of the emergent startups and apps that make up a unique community of builders...
by Jason Harper | Apr 22, 2015 | Gigabit Ecosystem Building
Picture a video game landscape with 1 million individually rendered trees, 16,000 flying dragons, 64 players interacting, terrain shifting before your eyes in realtime and procedurally-generated fluid physics making for a lush, vibrant, almost lifelike...