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...
by Jason Harper | Mar 16, 2015 | Gigabit Ecosystem Building
About GigHacksKC It’s time to set Kansas City’s gigabit network ablaze! Join us for a weekend of futuristic fun and a chance to build the gigabit apps of tomorrow. You’ll have the opportunity to team up with talented startups & tech companies,...
by Jason Harper | Mar 11, 2015 | Gigabit Ecosystem Building
Kansas City Teams Up with San Francisco, Chattanooga and Burlington for GIGHACKS, a 2-day Hackathon to Ignite the Gigabit Experience. A recent NPR story said using our current technology on a gigabit network is “like riding a bicycle on NASCAR track.” Here at KC...
