Connect(); 2016 - Stories LiveLike

live like is a virtual reality live
sports experiences application when you
put on the VR headset we teleport you to
the stadium to watch your favorite live
games with your friends and family
wherever they are the great part of
virtual reality today is that it's
actually extremely accessible and use
one device to do all of your
productivity work as well as all of your
entertainment sort of experiences do
you'll be able to download your
broadcasters iOS or Android application
on your phone launch it hit the watch in
VR button and have the lifelike
experience broadcasters today are very
excited about where virtual reality can
really take their content let's say
we're working with Fox you're talking
about streaming 10mbps video to millions
of users around the world that ends up
being a huge challenge we've been using
Microsoft pretty heavily for our
back-end video streaming architecture a
lot of our CDN needs have been through
the azure marketplace measure unlike
some of the other platforms we've looked
at it's actually extremely fully
featured we also use a sure for a lot of
our transcoding needs so for on-demand
content as well as some types of web
content we're building our application
with unity which means our development
environment we're using C sharp net
visual studio and all the good stuff
there I had no idea about anything the
startup world I had a lot of ideas most
of them really didn't pan out one of the
great things about building technology
today is if you want to build a VR app
you can do so in like matter of hours
everything we're building here at life
like his stuff nobody's really worked on
before we've actually had a lot of great
traction from major broadcasters here in
the US as well as in Europe and we're
hoping to you push the product out on
the marketplace sometime later this year

Connecting rural communities with affordable broadband

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Just because you live in a rural
area doesn't mean you shouldn't
have the opportunity
to be connected.
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>> I was about I would say ninth
grade year is where I began
taking college classes
through dual enrollment.
And that requires that
you upload papers and
assignments to the college as
well as to the high school.
The internet was terrible
at home, so I would have to
do my assignments really early,
like a whole month early.
>> He had to submit
a lot of his paperwork.
It's just gonna sit there and
just spin and spin and spin.
>> You know that
the deadline's coming and
you know you need more research
and you know it's not enough.
It's a struggle.
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>> In the beginning of the
semester, one of the questions I
ask the students just a show of
hands, who has Internet access?
Typically just a few.
Right there, that tells me that
I have to be a little limited
in any kind of homework
assignment I give.
It's a handicap for
teachers in the 21st century.
I mean here we are.
Hands are kind of tied.
>> The homework gap is a major
problem for our region.
And the exciting part
is that Charlotte and
Halifax County are two pilot
areas are no longer gonna be
left behind in this
digital divide.
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TV White Space is
a new technology that
the FCC has allowed
vendors to transmit
broadband connections wirelessly
over previously unused airwaves.
Rural markets specifically,
it is critical to have access
to that lower band spectrum that
allows Internet providers to
serve that last mile affordably.
>> The goal is by fall to have
about 250 connected and we're
hoping to have 1,000 families
connected soon after that.
>> It's gonna open the doors
to economic development and
it'll allow
the people in our area
to have access to
a world class education.
>> It was a dramatic increase in
productiveness and efficiency.
>> Dylan has a small antenna in
his home which is connected to
a TV White Space device,
turns on his laptop,
connects via WiFi.
>> I don't know the tech side.
All I know is it works.
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>> Now that I have
TV White Space Internet,
I can use the cloud and
my grade actually shot up.
Going forward with TV White
Space I got high Bs and As.
>> This is where I grew up and
I love it.
I'm a country girl.
Let's train our kids so
they can stay home and
have that knowledge and then
they can bring it back here so
that our community can grow.
TV White Space held up very well
with my college application.
Once I graduate,
I will be going to attend Old
Dominion University in the fall
studying computer science and
very excited to go.
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