THE RISE
Kieta Funakawa ’ 16 and Steve McCloskey ’ 15 founded the company Nanome Inc . to aid visualization and collaboration at the nanoscale .
I Just Held an Equation in My Hands It felt like the future . BY JARRETT HALEY
I ’ d been hearing a lot about an entrepreneur team in The Basement , UC San Diego ’ s latest innovation space and business incubator . Apparently these two young guys had started a company that was using virtual reality ( VR ) to illustrate nanoscale materials , things like chemical compounds , biological diseases , the kind of things that until now could only be visualized through a microscope or computer program .
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