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amitt

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About amitt

https://www.presencecap.com http://www.amitt.com

Current: Managing Partner & Co-founder - Presence Capital

Previous: CEO & Co-founder - Toro, acquired by Google in 2015 CTO - Zynga Japan Director of Engineering - Zynga Co-creator/Lead Dev - FarmVille CTO & Co-founder - MyMiniLife, acquired by Zynga in 2009 Software Engineer - Epic Games, Unreal Engine, Gears of War

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    This is missing a pretty big chunk of the end-game(s) of Flash: social network gaming. All of the top Facebook games were using Flash. We built the engine for FarmVille, CityVille,…

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    Depends on the type of training. Walmart is using VR to simulate Black Friday scenarios in which a fully-immersive environment would be more useful than an overlay. Several AR comp…

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    I run a VR/AR-focused VC firm (Presence Capital). We've done 30+ investments in this space, so you can say that we believe in the long-term potential of VR. Even given that, we're …

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    Mobile games/vr/ar - Unity or Unreal Web Backend - Elixir/Phoenix (we used PHP for FV), Python in some cases Web Frontend / Native Mobile Apps - React & React Native JS has effecti…

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    End of an era. We built the FarmVille-engine using AS3 and I still think it's one of the best programming languages I've ever used. Static typing, access modifiers, and performant.…

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    Sales people at medical device companies. They need to learn how to use the devices and then easily demo them to customers. It's also used by the end customers, after the sale is m…

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    funny you should mention that. I did an AMA on Whale today and that was one of the questions: https://askwhale.com/q/86968f/

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    I run a VR-focused VC firm (Presence Capital). We've done 25+ investments in this space, so you can say that we believe in the long-term potential of VR. Even given that, we're bea…

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    Comment #8267498

    Red Hot Labs | http://www.redhotlabs.com/jobs | SF, ONSITE ONLY FULL-TIME ENGINEERS and a FULL-TIME LEAD ACCOUNT MANAGER We're on a mission to revolutionize how mobile developers a…

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    This is a common pattern when you want to batch requests. We used to use it at Zynga for games. Facebook also supports it for their APIs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph…

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    Hi! We’re Red Hot Labs from San Francisco and we're looking for a FULL-TIME DEV (authorized already to work in the US, no remote, no interns, thanks!) We're on a mission to revolut…