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TORONTO, June 29, 2026 /CNW/ – OverActive Media (“OverActive” or the “Company“) (TSXV: OAM) (OTC: OAMCF), a global esports and entertainment company for today’s generation of fans, today announced a rescheduling of its virtual annual general meeting of shareholders. Initially planned for June 29, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. ET, the meeting was adjourned due to technical difficulties with the third-party hosting site. The meeting will be reconvened at 9:00 a.m. ET on July 13, 2026 and can be accessed at www.AGMCMeeting.com.

About OverActive Media

OverActive Media Corp. (TSXV: OAM) (OTC: OAMCF) (FRA: 0RB) is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with operations in Madrid, Spain and Berlin, Germany, and is a premier global esports and entertainment company for today’s generation of fans. OverActive owns team franchises in professional esports leagues, including the Call of Duty League, operating as Toronto KOI, and the League of Legends EMEA Championship, operating as Movistar KOI. OverActive also operates ActiveVoices, an AI-driven content localization and monetization platform that enables creators and brands to expand their audiences globally and unlock new revenue streams through automated translation, dubbing, and distribution.

For more information visit: www.overactivemedia.com

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MINNEAPOLIS, June 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Laplace Interventional today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) for TRIUMPH, the company’s pivotal trial evaluating its Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement (TTVR) system.

TRIUMPH is a prospective, multicenter pivotal study designed to assess the safety and effectiveness of Laplace TTVR system in patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR). The trial has a target enrollment of approximately 400 patients at up to 75 sites, randomized 2:1 against commercial TTVR. In addition, up to 150 patients will be enrolled in a single arm registry who are ineligible for commercial TTVR and suboptimal for transcatheter edge-to-edge repair.

Laplace is also pleased to announce the appointment of three global principal investigators for the TRIUMPH trial: Dr. Charanjit Rihal, MD, Interventional Cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, Rochester; Dr. Kashish Goel, MD, Director of Transcatheter Valve Interventions at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; and Dr. Brandon Jones, MD, Medical Director of Structural Heart Program at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland. The three clinical institutions were the top three enrollers in the Laplace US Early Feasibility Study (EFS).

“The Laplace safety and efficacy data in the EFS so far is very impressive. This potentially provides new options for patients with advanced TR due to its unique design,” said Dr. Rihal. “We are looking forward to testing it further in TRIUMPH which will contribute important clinical data on TTVR.”

“The FDA approval of the pivotal trial builds on the excellent clinical outcomes observed in the Laplace EFS study,” said Dr. Goel. “We are excited to participate in the trial as Laplace solves a significant unmet need for TR patients.”

“It’s a huge honor to partner with Drs. Rihal, Goel, and the Laplace team in leading the TRIUMPH trial,” said Dr. Jones. “Our patients are desperate for the next generation of transcatheter tricuspid valve therapies, and based on our early feasibility experience, we have great optimism that this unique system can treat a wider variety of anatomies and improve on the safety profile of the limited, currently available, commercial technologies.”

“FDA IDE approval of TRIUMPH marks a significant milestone for Laplace and for the advancement of transcatheter therapy in tricuspid valve disease,” said Ramji Iyer, PhD, Founder and CEO of Laplace Interventional. “We appreciate the collaboration of the investigators and study teams involved in this program and look forward to the clinical insights that will emerge from the study.”

About the Company

Laplace Interventional, Inc. is a privately held clinical-stage medical device company located in Minnesota developing a TTVR solution for more than 1.6 million TR patients in US. Laplace Interventional’s device is currently limited only for investigational use and is not commercially available in the US or any other country.

For more information:
Laplace Interventional
[email protected]

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The 53rd annual conference presents peer-reviewed breakthroughs in simulation, vectorization, and physics modeling across animation, visual effects, design, and engineering

LOS ANGELES, June 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Behind every breakthrough in film, games, and product design lies a quieter evolution in the tools themselves. The SIGGRAPH 2026 Technical Papers program highlights emerging solutions to some of the most persistent challenges in computer graphics and interactive techniques — promising more accurate, scalable, and dependable workflows. A cornerstone of SIGGRAPH, it spans areas including animation, simulation, imaging, geometry, modeling, rendering, human-computer interaction, VR/AR/MR, haptics, fabrication, robotics, visualization, audio, optics, programming languages, immersive experiences, generative AI, and machine learning for visual computing.

The program, which offers sessions 19–23 July in Los Angeles, creates connections and fosters collaborations through computer graphics and interactive techniques, highlighting how research breakthroughs can influence industries ranging from entertainment and design to engineering, manufacturing, healthcare, and scientific research.

“What stands out to me about these papers is that they address real problems facing the community. Whether it’s improving simulation, solving long-standing challenges in vectorization, or helping researchers better understand existing methods, they provide insights that are useful today while helping shape future research,” said Mirela Ben-Chen, SIGGRAPH 2026 Technical Papers Chair.

Among this year’s accepted papers selected for presentation in Los Angeles, three examples showcase trends emerging across the program. These examples include topics ranging from fluid simulation, 3D vectorization, and thin-shell physics modeling, each targeting problems that have limited the scale, reliability, or accuracy of tools used throughout visual effects, animation, product design, game development, and scientific computing.

A Faster Path to Large-Scale Fluid Simulation

A team of researchers from Technical University Munich and RWTH Aachen University presents “Spatiotemporal FLIP for Fast Free-Surface and Two-Phase Simulation With Very Large Time Steps”, which received an Honorable Mention in this year’s Technical Papers Awards. The work offers a spatiotemporal extension of the widely used Fluid-Implicit Particle simulation method. By treating particles as samples in four-dimensional space-time, ST-FLIP enables time steps up to an order of magnitude larger than those used by conventional solvers, delivering several-fold speedups on multi-billion-particle simulations run on a single workstation while preserving detailed surface structure and visual fidelity. Designed as a lightweight plug-in to existing FLIP, PIC, and APIC solvers, ST-FLIP lowers the barrier to large-scale fluid simulation in production environments.

“For a film or visual-effects team, this can mean faster high-resolution previews, more creative iterations, and final simulations that fit more comfortably within a production schedule,” said Bernhard Braun with Technical University Munich. “Our approach can reduce one of the major computational bottlenecks in high-quality liquid simulation.”

The team behind “Spatiotemporal FLIP” includes Braun, Rene Winchenbach, and Nils Thuerey with Technical University Munich, and Jan Bender with RWTH Aachen University.

Turning 3D Scenes Into Clean Vector Art

A team at Carnegie Mellon University introduces “Robust Planar Maps for 3D Vectorization”, a SIGGRAPH 2026 Technical Papers Best Papers Award winner that features a geometry-agnostic method for converting 3D scenes into clean, scalable 2D vector images with accurate occlusion handling. The approach tackles a longstanding reliability problem by replacing numerically difficult curve-curve intersection calculations with more tractable curve-line intersections, enabling it to handle the imperfect, disconnected curve descriptions common in real-world files while running orders of magnitude faster than existing techniques, bringing 3D vectorization within reach for production pipelines.

“Like a lot of good algorithms, this one came out of personal frustration with existing tools,” said Keenan Crane with Carnegie Mellon University. “We were still often having to trace out 3D renderings by hand in order to get quality vector graphics.”

The resulting method was built around a real production challenge rather than a theoretical exercise. “From the start, we had a production use case that we built our method around,” added Robert Fuchs with Carnegie Mellon University. “I hope practitioners understand that our method is complete and not just a tech demo. We’re already able to vectorize scenes like you might want to in production.”

Getting the Bend Right in Cloth, Paper, and Metal

“Better Bending: Analysis, Construction and Verification of Discrete Bending Models for Kirchhoff-Love Shells”, from Zhen Chen and Danny Kaufman with Adobe Research, and Etienne Vouga with The University of Texas at Austin, takes a systematic look at one of simulation’s most persistent open questions: how to best discretize the bending behavior of thin shells. While the graphics and mechanics communities have worked on shell models for well over four decades, the question has remained largely unaddressed. To better answer it, Better Bending proposes and evaluates a state-of-the-art “leaderboard” benchmark of 10 of the most deployed bending models in computer graphics. The evaluation highlights critical gaps that the work then addresses with Bending-Active Cosserat (BAC), a new and significantly improved shell model, along with clear, benchmark-backed practical recommendations for users for when and how each model is suitable, or not, based on application needs. The work takes a step toward closing a long-standing gap in best practices for simulating diverse thin-shell materials, from cloth and paper to rubber and formed metal sheets.

The results cut against the team’s own initial expectations. Models that are accurate in theory still broke down in practice on the high-resolution meshes used in production. “This challenged us to reconsider what suitable verification benchmarks should be and motivated us to design the ‘sharp-creasing’ benchmark. In turn, this benchmark led us to the insights necessary to construct our new BAC bending model,” said Kaufman.

Another result turned on a subtle implementation choice. “Our experiments revealed that the vertex-based quadratic bending formulation (QB-PL) exhibits significantly better convergence behavior. This was not something I anticipated going into the study, and it highlights how much the choice of discretization can matter, even for well-established bending energies,” said Chen.

Work that audits and validates existing tools rather than replacing them is not the field’s usual headline material. “I did feel some trepidation sending a paper to SIGGRAPH that is both very long and different than the usual fare. But I do think papers like ours are important to the health of the field,” said Vouga.

SIGGRAPH 2026 offers an opportunity to spotlight groundbreaking research like the papers highlighted here, helping artists, engineers, and researchers across all avenues of computer graphics through this internationally recognized program. Once again, the Technical Papers program features two integrated paper tracks, Journal (ACM Transactions on Graphics) and Conference.

“The whole review process is built so that the good ideas and the lasting ideas come up and stick around. In the end, you have a mix of research areas represented in the program, from foundational topics like geometry, simulation, and rendering to emerging areas such as generative AI, and that balance happens naturally through the review process,” said Ben-Chen.
Whether published through the Journal or Conference track, each accepted paper reflects SIGGRAPH’s commitment to showcasing research that advances the state of the art in computer graphics and interactive techniques through innovation, technical rigor, and real-world relevance.

As a foundation of the SIGGRAPH conference, the Technical Papers program demonstrates how innovation continues to expand what artists, engineers, researchers, and creators can achieve. To learn more about SIGGRAPH 2026 and the Technical Papers program, view the full schedule to explore the breadth of interactive techniques grounded in rigorous research with real-world impact, celebrate the SIGGRAPH 2026 Technical Papers Best Papers, Honorable Mentions, and Test-of-Time awardees on the ACM SIGGRAPH Blog, and register now to discover all the programs offered at SIGGRAPH 2026.

About ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, and SIGGRAPH 2026
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field’s challenges. ACM SIGGRAPH is a special interest group within ACM that serves as an interdisciplinary community for members in research, technology, and applications in computer graphics and interactive techniques. The SIGGRAPH conference is the world’s leading annual interdisciplinary educational experience showcasing the latest in computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2026, the 53rd annual conference hosted by ACM SIGGRAPH, will take place live 19–23 July at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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TORONTO, June 29, 2026 /CNW/ – NEO Battery Materials Ltd. (“NEO” or the “Company“) (TSXV: NBM) (OTC: NBMFF), a low-cost, silicon-enhanced battery manufacturer enabling high-performance capabilities for drones, robotics, and physical AI, is pleased to strategically acquire an additional 10% interest in its operating subsidiary, NEO Battery Korea Co., Ltd. (“NBM Korea“), through a Stock Purchase Agreement dated June 26, 2026, from Automobile & PCB Inc. (“A&P“), strengthening NEO’s ownership of a key operating asset.

Since expanding operations through the Gimje battery manufacturing facility, NBM Korea has initiated and continues to service Fortune 500 automotive and international drone and battery value chain companies, with foundry products and high-performance solutions targeted for defense and government customers. The increased ownership underscores NBM Korea’s growing strategic and operational importance to the Company’s interests and scale-up.

NEO has acquired 120,786 common shares of NBM Korea for an aggregate purchase price of KRW 715,542,466 (or approximately CAD 662,539) (the “Transaction“). Upon closing, NEO will directly own 1,156,102 common shares of NBM Korea, representing approximately 90% of the issued and outstanding common shares. The Transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions, including the acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange (“TSXV“).

As NBM Korea progresses toward scaled battery manufacturing with its first and expansion factories, acquiring a greater interest at this stage, ahead of full production ramp, positions the Company and its stakeholders to capture a greater share of the value and economics created as both facilities mature. Furthermore, defense and government customers have increased scrutiny of suppliers’ ownership and control during qualification and procurement reviews. Management considers consolidating ownership will reduce due diligence complexity and strengthen the Company as a controlled, traceable supplier, enabling it to compete for additional contract awards. Simplified capital structure will further allow greater flexibility in structuring future financings at the subsidiary level, including potential participation by strategic partners and government-linked investors.

Pursuant to TSXV Policy 1.1, A&P is considered a Non-Arm’s Length Party with a board member in NBM Korea and held 258,828 common shares of NBM Korea prior to the Transaction. The Transaction is not subject to disinterested shareholder approval, and there are no shares, warrants, or securities of the Company issued as finder’s fees.

About NEO Battery Materials Ltd.

NEO Battery Materials is a Canadian-South Korean battery technology company focused on developing and producing silicon-enhanced lithium-ion batteries in drones, robotics, physical AI, electric vehicles, and energy storage systems. With a patent-protected, low-cost silicon manufacturing process, NEO Battery enables longer-running and ultra-fast charging properties and provides end-to-end battery solutions from materials selection, cell architecture, and process optimization. The Company aims to be a globally-leading producer of high-performance lithium-ion batteries and materials, building a secure, robust battery supply chain for Western manufacturers. For more information, please visit the Company’s website at: https://www.neobatterymaterials.com/.

On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Spencer Huh
Director, President, and CEO

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Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to: volatile stock prices; the general global markets and economic conditions; the possibility of write-downs and impairments; the risk associated with the research and development of battery-related technologies; the risk associated with the effectiveness and feasibility of battery material, electrode, and cell technologies that have not yet been tested or proven on commercial scale or under real-world operating conditions; the risks associated with battery-related manufacturing process scale-up, including maintaining consistent material, component, and cell quality, production yields, and process reproducibility at a pilot, semi-commercial, or commercial scale; the risks associated with compatibility of existing battery chemistries, formulations, components, or designs; unforeseen risks associated with entering into and maintaining collaborations, joint ventures, partnerships, or commercial contracts with battery cell manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, and various companies in the global battery and downstream end-user supply chain; the risks associated with the failure to develop and produce commercially viable battery-related products or that technical goals may not be achieved within expected timelines or budgets under a joint development or collaboration; the risks associated with the Company’s technologies and products not meeting performance requirements or customer specifications; the risks that prototype and pilot-scale products do not advance into commercially produced products or translate into commercial orders; the risk associated with battery components and cell purchase orders and offtake supply that may not be fulfilled in full, on time, or at all as actual revenue realization depends on delivery schedules, achievement of technical milestones, and customer acceptance and validation; the risk associated with losing official vendor registration or status with existing customers; counterparty risk upon delivery of prototype and commercial products; the risks associated with constructing, completing, securing, and financing pilot, semi-commercial, and commercial battery materials, components, and cell manufacturing facilities including the Canadian and South Korean facilities; the risks associated with potential delays or increased costs with site preparation, equipment procurement and installation, and facility commissioning; the risks associated with integrating silicon anode material production, electrode manufacturing, and cell assembly within a single operational cluster or the Company’s business portfolio; the risks associated with supply chain disruptions or cost fluctuations in raw materials, processing chemicals, and additive prices, impacting production costs and commercial viability; the risks associated with uninsurable risks arising during the course of research, development and production; competition faced by the Company in securing experienced personnel, contracts and sales, and financing; access to adequate infrastructure and resources to support battery materials, components, and cell research and development activities; the risks associated with changes in the technology regulatory regime governing the Company; the risks associated with the timely execution of the Company’s strategies and business plans; the risks associated with the lithium-ion battery industry and end-users’ demand and adoption of the Company’s silicon anode technology and battery products; market adoption and integration challenges, including the difficulty of incorporating silicon anodes and silicon battery products within battery manufacturers and OEMs’ systems; the risks associated with the various environmental and political regulations the Company is subject to; risks related to regulatory and permitting delays; the reliance on key personnel; liquidity risks; the risk of litigation; risk management; and other risk factors as identified in the Company’s recent Financial Statements and MD&A and in recent securities filings for the Company which are available on www.sedarplus.ca. Forward-looking information is based on assumptions management believes to be reasonable at the time such statements are made, including but not limited to, continued R&D and commercialization activities, no material adverse change in precursor, raw material, equipment, and relevant cost prices, development and commercialization plans to proceed in accordance with plans and such plans to achieve their stated expected outcomes, receipt of required regulatory approvals, and such other assumptions and factors as set out herein. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such forward-looking information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking information. Such forward-looking information has been provided for the purpose of assisting investors in understanding the Company’s business, operations, research and development, and commercialization plans and may not be appropriate for other purposes. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is made as of the date of this presentation, and the Company does not undertake to update such forward-looking information except in accordance with applicable securities laws.

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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