洛杉矶硅滩成美国新创业中心（在线收听）

洛杉矶硅滩成美国新创业中心

The company VNTANA from the Spanish word for“window,”is one of many tech start-ups near Los Angeles.

公司VNTANA的名字在西班牙语中是“窗口”的意思，而它是洛杉矶附近的许多科技创业公司中的一家。

It is based in the seaside community of Santa Monica, and creates holograms, three-dimensional images for education, marketing, and entertainment.

总部位于圣莫尼卡海滨社区的这家公司为教育，市场营销及娱乐创造3维全息图像。

The system allows live remote appearances and virtual concerts.

这样的系统允许远程动态控制及虚拟协调。

It is interactive and users can control the projected images with gestures.

而且它是交互式的，因此用户可以通过手势控制投影图象。

“It takes two people less than an hour to set up the screen and it can be shipped anywhere in the world."

“2个人不到一个小时就可以设置好屏幕，而且它可以运到世界上任何地方。”

Like many Silicon Beach companies, VNTANA takes advantage of its closeness to Hollywood.

像许多硅滩公司一样，VNTANA利用了自身临近好莱坞的优势。

“We have a focus on entertainment and on content. And that's something that the entertainment community really understands."

“我们专注于娱乐及内容。这才是娱乐界真正需要的。”

Silicon Valley is oriented more toward technology, while Silicon Beach focuses on entertainment.

硅谷以技术作为导向，而硅滩则专注娱乐路线。

But the sector is diverse.

但这个领域异彩纷呈。

A recent gathering of LA start-ups by the group Town Hall Los Angeles included Matthew Goldman,founder of Wallaby Financial, which advises consumers on which credit cards to use.

Town Hall投资研究公司最近将洛杉矶各大新创公司聚集一堂，其中也包括袋鼠金融的马修·戈德曼，他建议消费者基于他们购物的地方所提供的利率和收益来选择使用信用卡。

“The phone locates you and it communicates with our servers that make these recommendations and do the intelligence and send back the results to your phone, in virtually real time."

“手机会将你进行定位，然后发回我们的服务器。我们的服务器随后提供建议，做好信息处理并将结果发送回你的手机，全程几乎是实时的。”

The Los Angeles tech sector spreads from the city to the beach and the suburbs.

Analysts say its size is hard to measure, since technology permeates so many LA industries, but Silicon Beach is home to many hundreds of tech start-ups, and it's growing.

分析人士表示虽然规模难以估计，技术已渗透到洛杉矶的各个行业。但硅滩是数以百计高科技新创公司的家园，而且仍在不断扩大。