Making games feel real
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Virtual Motion, is a start-up software company in Mount Washington, PA, which was formed by Craig Campbell, the company's president. The company makes a special computer-game headset, called Motionware, that is designed to give users a more realistic experience when playing video games. According to Campbell, the device hyperpolarizes the eight cranial nerve. It sends tiny electrical currents to the nerve behind the ear, affecting the user's balance and making him feeling like he is doing something he really is not doing. The electrical currents is said to be capable of synchronizing with the action on a computer screen.
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Makes a special computer-game headset, called Motionware, designed to give users a more realistic experience on video games
Publication Name: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
Subject: Business, regional
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Year: 1998
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Seagate picks Pittsburgh
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Silicon Valley-based Seagate Technology revealed on Aug. 24, 1998 that it will build its main research and development center in Pittsburgh, PA, and spend $30 million to launch it. The leading computer disk drive manufacturer in the world expects the new facility to furnish it an advantage in the highly competitive market of data-storage. According to Mark Kryder, a professor of electrical and computer engineering who will oversee Seagate Technology's project, a site for the center is yet to be selected. Seagate Technology listed a loss of $530 million in 1997 due to declining rates for computers and their parts.
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Will build its main research and development center in Pittsburgh, PA, and spend $30 million to launch it
Publication Name: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
Subject: Business, regional
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Year: 1998
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Along for the ride
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Alexa Internet, based in San Francisco, CA, offers Internet surfers a software to help navigate the Web by allowing them to view and retrieve information. The software, available at www.alexa.com, keeps track of the user's stops and provides little information about each. Alexa's program can be integrated with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 as well as the next version of Netscape Navigator browser. The most popular feature in Alexa is the "Related Links" feature that gives users a comparison-shopping of the sites they visit.
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Offers Internet surfers a software to help navigate the Web by allowing them to view and retrieve information
Publication Name: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
Subject: Business, regional
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Year: 1998
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