Tech Interviews

All dressed up and nowhere to go? A new app can fix that.

Now that the new campaign has rolled out, we speak with Carly McCrory of the Champaign County EDC about the new You're Welcome campaign.

Who is Mike Renaud? Well, you have a chance to learn more, as he'll be teamed up with Pixo for a creative design panel on Thursday for Pygmalion Tech.
 

In Good fibes, part one, we investigated the Internet Service Provider (ISP) UC2B/iTV-3 and their fiber optic internet services in Champaign-Urbana. In part two, Bridget speaks with a marketing executive from Pavlov Media to learn about the status of the Pavlov Media fiber game in C-U.
 

iVenture Accelerator brings interdisciplinary teams of students together to solve social problems through entrepreneuriship.

Facebook's next step is to out-human humans through virtual reality. What is virtual reality? Dr. Alan B. Craig explains virtual and augmented realities and how we can use these media to have a richer experience of the world (and maybe even be better people). 

Dr. Megan Condis, who recently finished her dissertation on gaming culture, discusses gamers and how to make a game, and suggests that the best games combine tech with a clear understanding of audience.

Ashley sat down with the brains behind MakerGirl to discuss C-U girls making cool stuff and learning lifelong technology skills in the process. 

Urbana artist Eszter Sápi talks about the tech that makes her work on nationalism, belonging, and folktales possible.