25 years ago, I chose to light a candle rather than curse the darkness. I decided to create an academic to workforce program, named after my nephew, Dakar Kareem Young who lost his life on his birthday, May 13th, 2015. Dakar’s indelible spirit will live-on through a smart pipeline program that we strive to endow as end-to-end continuum to provide advanced […]

.@mikecuales will represent @NCState today in a virtual panel alongside Harvard and NYU at @nyedtechweek on innovative applications of #VR in higher ed. Production of the cultural competency VR training module for @NCStateGTI will be featured: https://t.co/gItZmB4kxh pic.twitter.com/RHcPgJZKnk — NC State DELTA (@NCStateDELTA) December 20, 2017 Mike Cuales and Derek Alan Rowe held court for a free a two-day experience […]

Coding is a language, Unity is an example of linguistics used to synthesize the best of breed applications to read, write and compose, publish, distribute and monetize with analytic support. Speak loudly and precisely in the dominant Language of tomorrow Pedagogy to apply learning language(s) to become a developer for 2020 competitive workforce placement. Become ” The predator in the […]

The Boost Accelerator/Incubator program is centered on media production and communication, and undergirded by a network of employment resource groups from major tech-entertainment players in Silicon Beach.  The outcome(s) will discover and highlight talented creative/tech professionals from non traditional sources, underserved communities, and K-14 inner city school districts to provide solutions for future tech entrepreneurs.  Amped-Up is where we’ve been, […]

What is a trim tab? From the ranks of the Los Angeles Community College system comes a trim tab named Alton Glass  .  Alton is what we’ve been looking for to fuel our Digital Media Mentorship Program.  The question is can we pull together all of the elements so that Alton can become the trim tab that leads 30 selected […]

Kevin Clark– The 10-year 50 million dollar project aka “THE AMP, Arts Media Performance Center was unveiled to stakeholder on Friday October 20th in a ribbon cutting ceremony, although it’s been in use since the beginning of the fall semester, August 28th. Dakar and advisors, Dylan Watkins MonsterVR and Munir Mahmud, HartBeat toured the facility a weeks before and saw […]

Kevin Clark-Dakar– Oct- 13 Innovation in Video Advertising: Enhancing Brand Experience – Maximizing Revenue in Syndication, Ad Insertion and Live Streaming   Early Thursday morning we hustled over to see the MULTIPOP  (MP) platform inside of a Digital Hollywood 2017 panel, and left energized about what this advertising and monetization system could do to enhance our student generated VR/AR project […]

Packed house today for #DigitalHollywood @Skirball_LA learning all things digital 😎👍 pic.twitter.com/NOFHywwY9S — 1620 Media (@1620_Media) October 12, 2017 Valuing and Financing Entertainment Content: Film/TV, Internet and Virtual Reality – From VC, Private Equity to Corporate Investment Diane McGrath, Chief Global Strategist, Falcon Media House Schuyler M. Moore, Partner, Greenberg Glusker Seth Shapiro, Governor, Interactive Media, The Television Academy Peg […]

Kevin Clark– Dakar Jay Tucker has done it again, his latest conclave, UCLA LeVRage was witnessed by a standing room only audience to hear and experience the what’s on the horizon in VR/AR Entertainment-Monetization.  The highlight of the 8 hour extravaganza was Professor Vinay Narayan’s presentation that we unfortunately could not post, because our phone was stolen before we could […]