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• Dartmouth company hopes to change film industry with special motion technology

  Wednesday March 20th 2019

  This is maybe skipping a step or two, but there’s room in Julian Taylor’s office in Burnside for an Oscar or an Emmy. Taylor and business partner Jeff Levy own Andra Motion Technologies Inc., which is poised to make a big splash on the technology side of the film making[…]

• Ottawa-based Shopify to open TV, film production house in Toronto

  Wednesday March 13th 2019

  Shopify Inc. is branching out beyond its e-commerce roots to launch a TV and film content development and production house, but the company says it isn’t gearing up to become a competitor to heavyweights like Netflix or the CBC or a branded content creator. The Ottawa-based tech giant revealed Wednesday[…]

• Vancouver’s powerhouse film, gaming industries yields VR arcades

  Wednesday March 06th 2019

  It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Vancouver’s fast emerging virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) sectors have emerged from its strong existing film, video game and tech industries. Vancouver has built the third largest film & TV production centre in North America and one of the top visual effects and[…]