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OTOY Launches Groundbreaking Multi-Hour Star Trek Spatial Experience for the Apple Vision Pro, in Partnership with Paramount Game Studios and Roddenberry Entertainment

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OTOY, Paramount Game Studios and Roddenberry Entertainment follow up with Roddenberry Archive experience produced at the highest levels of fidelity and historical accuracy for the Apple Vision Pro

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — In partnership with Paramount Game Studios and The Gene Roddenberry Estate, OTOY is thrilled to unveil the ‘The Archive’ for the Apple Vision Pro – launching on the App Store today in tandem with the release of Apple’s new spatial computing platform. The app marks a major evolution of the Roddenberry Archive project, which had over 4-million visitors during a limited 3-week preview on the web in April 2023.

The new Archive app immerses fans in nearly 2-hours of groundbreaking Star Trek spatial experiences built exclusively for the Apple Vision Pro, allowing them to explore hundreds of fully realized locations, artifacts and unique items – spanning every Star Trek TV show and film across the franchise’s nearly 60-year history. With only gaze and touch, Vision Pro users can transport themselves instantly through gorgeous immersive 3D environments traversing between different eras of Star Trek from The Cage pilot to Star Trek: Lower Decks. They can inspect each item on Captain Kirk’s shelf, take a seat at Quark’s bar on the Deep Space Nine Promenade, or launch a shuttle from the U.S.S. Enterprise-D’s hangar bay. With Apple SharePlay, a visit through the world of Star Trek can also become a shared social experience that can be live streamed with friends and family on.

Created exclusively for the Vision Pro app, a select number of Star Trek assets are available as downloadable holographic objects which can be placed in the user’s home environment. These models and sets can be shrunk or expanded from life size to dollhouse scales while rendering at a fidelity and quiescence never before possible on consumer hardware.

Audiences can play with the size and scale of the legendary U.S.S Enterprise – enabling them to experience what it is like to walk around the original 11-foot physical U.S.S Enterprise model on display at the Smithsonian, or have the in-universe 1:1 life size 1000-foot ship fly overhead.

OTOY concept videos and documentary films from recent Roddenberry Archive releases have been remastered specifically for the Vision Pro and are featured in the app along with newly restored footage from the Roddenberry Archive – including previews of the unabridged interviews with George Lucas and Stan Lee exploring Gene Roddenberry’s influence on Star Wars and Marvel.

Samples of OTOY’s many years of collaboration with legendary creators are also included in the archive, including content done by OTOY in collaboration with Bruce Timm in 2014 for Batman: The Animated Series.

The app’s spatial content and streams were created by artists and studios using the Render Network and OTOY’s cutting-edge GPU rendering tools, bringing the highest levels of unbiased path-traced realism at unprecedented resolutions, powered by thousands of decentralized GPUs in the cloud. The app allows artists using OTOY’s tools to load their own immersive media creations on the Vision Pro and share it with others.

Featured in the Archive’s native Vision Pro spatial content are 1-meter by 1-meter light field cubes that are displayed at 90-frames-per-second in 4K resolution per eye, pushing the boundary on visual fidelity. Unbiased rendering and light field baking enable audiences to experience Star Trek worlds with fully path traced real time lighting, including dynamic glossy reflections and shadows, bringing revolutionary levels of photorealism to immersive content.

The Archive was developed using the Universal Scene Description (USD) format as part of OTOY’s membership in The Alliance for OpenUSD – a group formed by Pixar and Apple, among others – that is working to standardize the USD format across the industry to help artists and developers create and deploy complex real-time 3D experiences at scale.

“Through our multi-decade collaboration with OTOY, we have been working to push the frontiers of immersive technology to fulfill my father’s legacy, creative intent, and ideas in ways that can be experienced today and by generations yet to come.” said Rod Roddenberry, President of Roddenberry Entertainment. “The Roddenberry Archive, as an immersive experience on the Apple Vision Pro, is a remarkable milestone in realizing my father’s vision for the Holodeck. This release also fulfills one of my mother’s greatest wishes. She recorded her phenoms in 2008 before her passing, to have her voice live on in posterity. It is deeply moving for me to be able to have her voice now narrate portions of the archive” added Roddenberry. “I am also pleased that the archive can bring to life both published and unrealized influential narrative works from Star Trek’s rich literary history, covering my father’s one and only Star Trek novel for the Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979 through the decades of books and comics that subsequently followed.”

“Today’s release of the Archive app for the Vision Pro marks a major step towards realizing Gene Roddenberry’s Holodeck” said CEO of OTOY, Jules Urbach. “Through Apple’s breakthrough Vision Pro spatial computing platform, we can bring audiences back in time as if they were there on set during the making of Star Trek for the first time, with full visual immersion and historical accuracy” added Urbach.

The Archive’s latest release of navigable spatial content can be viewed as a live 2D stream on the web at https://roddenberry.x.io. For a limited time, the complete experience is available for free on both the web and the Vision Pro. Later this year, OTOY and Paramount will offer users unlimited viewing time and a-la-carte access to all current and future immersive Star Trek 3D experiences released through The Archive. 

About OTOY Inc.

OTOY Inc. is the definitive cloud graphics company, pioneering technology that is redefining content creation and delivery for media and entertainment organizations around the world. OTOY’s Academy Award®-winning technology is used by leading visual effects studios, artists, animators, designers, architects, and engineers, providing unprecedented creative freedom, new levels of realism, and new economics in content creation and distribution powered by the cloud. For more information, visit www.otoy.com.

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About Paramount Consumer Products

Paramount Consumer Products oversees all licensing and merchandising for Paramount (Nasdaq: PARA, PARAA), a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic consumer brands, Paramount Consumer Products’ portfolio includes a diverse slate of brands and content from BET, CBS (including CBS Television Studios and CBS Television Distribution), Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and SHOWTIME®. With properties spanning animation, live-action, preschool, youth and adult, Paramount Consumer Products is committed to creating the highest quality product for some of the world’s most beloved, iconic franchises. To view our range of consumer products and Paramount branded apparel, visit ParamountShop.com.

 

 

 

 

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Sensi.AI Hosts “An Evening of Learnings with Sensi & Teepa Snow” for Senior Care Leaders

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — 

WHAT:
The senior care industry is at an inflection point. Families are demanding more transparency. Staffing shortages are accelerating. And a growing aging population is moving across settings, from home to assisted living to hospice, with care that too often resets at every transition.

That’s why Sensi.AI and dementia care pioneer Teepa Snow are coming together for a complimentary Dine & Learn at The Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, NC. With more than 8,000 in-person trainings across 30+ countries, Teepa is one of the most influential voices in senior care today.

Through intimate dinner conversation and expert-led sessions, attendees will leave with a practical care and AI playbook and a clearer picture of how human-centered expertise and care intelligence can work together across the full care continuum to address staffing challenges, elevate standard of care, and preserve compassion at scale.

WHEN:
November 10, 2026 | 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM

WHERE:
The Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Home care agency owners serving 20+ clients and senior living community owners with 50+ residents are invited to apply to attend here.

Upon applying, qualified companies will receive an official invitation.

 ABOUT SENSI.AI

Sensi.AI is THE agentic operating system for care providers, built for the care teams who are burning out, the coordinators running blind, and the seniors who deserve better than a system held together by exhausted people doing their best.

When the care layer knows a senior’s patterns, the ops layer makes smarter staffing decisions. When the ops layer runs smoothly, the growth layer enables providers to serve more seniors who deserve care. That is the power of Sensi’s care intelligence, trained with years of real care data.

The results speak for themselves: Armed with 100+ care-related insights, agencies using Sensi reduce hospitalizations by an average of 22% and double the length of service. Sensi is HIPAA compliant and supports more than 80 percent of the largest home care networks in North America. For more information, visit sensi.ai.

ABOUT TEEPA SNOW, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA

Teepa Snow is an Occupational Therapist with over forty years of rich and varied clinical and academic experience. Her philosophy is reflective of her education, work experience, medical research, and first-hand caregiving experiences. Her advocacy efforts led her to the development of the GEMS® State Model for understanding the progression of dementia and changes in abilities. She also created the Positive Approach to Care® training strategies, which are effective techniques for anyone seeking to optimize care and support for those living with brain change. As the Education Director of Eastern North Carolina’s Alzheimer’s Association, she also helped to create the nation’s award-winning DVD entitled Accepting the Challenge: Providing the Best Care for People with Dementia. Her user-friendly approaches provide guidance and leadership to national efforts to promote best practices in care.

Teepa founded the Positive Approach to Care® organization in 2007, and it is now collaborating to improve dementia care in more than thirty countries worldwide. Positive Approach to Care provides online and in-person services, training, and products to professionals, family members, the lay public, and individuals living with brain change. In 2022, Teepa founded Snow Approach Foundation, a nonprofit organization based near her home in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with the mission of fostering the development of a neurodiverse, inclusive community. For more information, please visit teepasnow.com or snowapproach.org.

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Scrum Alliance and IIBA Partner to Connect Agile Delivery and Business Analysis

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New partnership launches with reciprocal member benefits.

DENVER, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Scrum Alliance®, the global leader in agile and scrum training, and the International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®), the world’s leading association for business analysis, today announced a strategic partnership designed to bridge agile delivery and business analysis.

Scrum Alliance members receive 15% off eligible IIBA memberships, certifications, learning bundles, and renewals. IIBA publications and certification application fees are not eligible for the discount. Likewise, IIBA members receive 15% off eligible Scrum Alliance on-demand microcredential courses. Each course includes a two-year Scrum Alliance membership.

As organizations integrate AI and rethink how work gets done, the ability to identify the right problems, make sound decisions, and rapidly realize value from those decisions is becoming increasingly important. Business analysis and agile delivery bring complementary capabilities to that challenge.

“Agile delivery and business analysis have always worked side by side,” said Tristan Boutros, CEO of Scrum Alliance. “As AI changes how organizations make decisions and create value, the ability to connect insight with execution becomes even more important. By bringing the Scrum Alliance and IIBA communities together, we can help professionals build the broader capabilities they need to lead and deliver in this new environment.”

“For organizations investing in AI, the hard part is deciding what will provide business value and getting teams aligned to act on it,” said Delvin Fletcher, President and CEO of IIBA. “Business analysis and agile delivery both help solve for that. We’re thrilled to team up with Scrum Alliance to give our global communities a better way to expand their capabilities and lead through change.”

Ready to take advantage of these partner benefits?

For Scrum Alliance members: Access your IIBA discount and learn more at www.scrumalliance.org/iiba/iiba-for-scrum-alliance-members.For IIBA members: Explore Scrum Alliance microcredential courses and claim your offer at www.scrumalliance.org/iiba.

About Scrum Alliance

A nonprofit focused on agile education and professional credentialing, Scrum Alliance continues to advance its vision of Agile for Anyone™ by equipping professionals and their organizations with the education, skills, and community needed to succeed in today’s ever-evolving workplaces.

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For over 20 years, the International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®) has helped shape the practice of business analysis to achieve better enterprise outcomes. A professional association with 30,000 members, 120 chapters, 1,500 volunteers, and 500 partners worldwide, IIBA supports the recognition of business analysis within organizations. It enables networking and community engagement, provides foundational standards and resources, and offers internationally recognized certification programs for career advancement. For more information, visit iiba.org.

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MailXstream Launches Zapier Integration to Automate Print-to-Mail Order Submission

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New connection links MailXstream to more than 7,000 apps, letting businesses trigger printed and mailed documents automatically from the tools they already use

WILMINGTON, N.C., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MailXstream, a cloud-based print-to-mail platform operated by eVanguard Solutions, Inc., today announced the release of its official Zapier integration, giving businesses a no-code way to connect MailXstream’s print-and-mail service to thousands of other applications.

The integration allows a document created or updated in an app such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or an accounting or CRM system to automatically flow into MailXstream for printing and mailing, without staff manually uploading files or re-entering recipient information. Recipient addresses and mailing lists can be pulled in the same way, sourced from a spreadsheet, database, or CRM record at the moment an order is created.

The integration also reports back: businesses can route Slack notifications, update records, or trigger follow-up emails automatically when an order completes, encounters an error, or requires approval, and can look up an order’s status from within any automated workflow.

“Manual mailing steps are one of the last bottlenecks in an otherwise automated back office,” said Jay Rohr, President of eVanguard Solutions, Inc. “This integration lets a business’s existing systems talk directly to MailXstream, so a document that used to require someone to open MailXstream and submit it by hand now goes out the same way it always would have — just without anyone touching it.”

The integration includes a Send Document action for submitting orders, along with triggers for Order Completed, Order Errored, and Order Action Required, plus a Find Order search for checking an order’s status mid-workflow. It supports MailXstream’s separate Production and Test environments, so businesses can build and prove out a workflow safely before connecting it to live mail.

Setup requires a MailXstream account with order-creation permissions, a Zapier account, and an access token generated from the MailXstream profile page. Once connected, users choose a MailXstream template, map the document and recipient data from their trigger app, and the Zap is ready to run.

The MailXstream Zapier integration is available now to all MailXstream customers. For setup instructions and detailed workflow examples, visit mailxstream.com or contact MailXstream support.

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About MailXstream
MailXstream is a service of eVanguard Solutions, Inc. First launched in 2005, MailXstream is an on-demand print-to-mail platform that lets businesses in healthcare, finance, legal, insurance, and property management send invoices, statements, notices, and marketing mail directly from their desktop, with next-business-day entry into the USPS mail stream.

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