A man dressed as Marvel villain Doctor Doom testified at a Seattle City Council meeting to satirically oppose the city's surveillance network, which uses technology from companies like Axon and Flock. The activist, Clifford Cawthon, a policy advisor and member of Community Not Cameras, sarcastically endorsed automatic license plate readers and the city's Real-Time Crime Center to highlight privacy concerns about mass data collection without warrants.
Polyarc, the Seattle studio behind the acclaimed VR series Moss, has closed after nearly 12 years of development. The closure follows a failed funding round in March and represents the latest in a series of VR studio shutdowns, including major cuts by Meta across its Reality Labs division.
Polyarc, the Seattle-based developer behind the acclaimed Moss VR series, has closed after nearly 12 years of operation, with at least 29 staff members now seeking employment. The studio's early VR hits across PSVR, Oculus Quest, and other platforms could not survive amid industry shifts, including Meta's pivot away from VR toward AI and the closure of competing VR studios.