Entrepreneurship
The Mod University is a Udemy course and support network providing guidance and teaching best practices to new community moderators. Learn the skills required for community growth management, conflict resolution, protecting the privacy and personal security of your community, and steps for self-care to maximize your effectiveness as a community moderator.
GLAM Grants is a website that helps researchers and historians find awards, fellowships and travel grants within the cultural heritage sector such as Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.
The AlanfinityLive channel was founded to livestream content played on the Minecraft April Fool’s Day 2020 joke snapshot called the Infinity snapshot. It allowed players to redirect world portals to create randomly generated dimensions, changing the number of world levels from 3 to over 2.1 billion explorable dimensions.
ArcLive is a remote visitation service that helps historians access non-digitized documents in real-time, replacing physical travel at half the cost. This method significantly reduces traditional digitization costs while staying within the legal requirements of copyright and fair use.
The Boston EdTech Foundation is a nonprofit that offers monthly events for educators, technologists, researchers, librarians, and entrepreneurs looking to engage with technology in academia, K-12 education, higher education, and the private sector. Alan helps oversee Events Planning, Marketing and Partnerships that drive our primary activities, such as hosting the Boston EdTech Meetup Group.
EscapeLabs was the world’s first mixed reality game publisher. We partnered with escape room companies around the world to help them utilize their space more efficiency by replacing 1 traditional escape room with an infinite number of immersive experiences (similar to the HoloDeck). During the summer of 2017, EscapeLabs participated in the MIT PlayLabs Accelerator using augmented reality to create room-scale puzzle games for the HoloLens and other mixed-reality devices.
LoreBooks was the first VR/AR/MR publishing platform for literature. We modified e-books or PDF documents by formatting them into 3D holographic books, optimized for consumption on SmartGlasses and VR/AR medium devices (such as the Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap headsets). Ahead of its time, LoreBooks has been shut down until consumer smartglasses are within reach of the masses.