The Verge

APRIL 11, 2022

Meta is testing new features to let creators make money within Horizon Worlds, the company’s social metaverse platform for Quest VR headsets that is soon coming to mobile phones and possibly game consoles. Roblox has built a huge business from this model, while Rec Room is growing quickly and prioritizing creator monetization as well.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

Epic, which filed the case late last week , claims it’s “no coincidence” that Nreal’s name “looks and sounds virtually identical” to Unreal’s branding. Epic argues that on top of “Nreal” sounding a lot like “Unreal,” both companies are competing in the same space. Epic claims that all this potential crossover could confuse customers.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2024

of Commerce will lead a delegation of companies to the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), taking place in Las Vegas next Tuesday through Thursday. The delegation of six companies includes robotic barista maker Artly — a Seattle-based startup founded in 2020 in a bid to use tech to make the perfect cup of coffee — and others.

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GeekWire

JULY 10, 2020

Some companies have accelerated growth plans, many pivoted or reduced staff, and others are cautiously charging ahead. Companies across other sectors are not only weathering the COVID-19 storm but growing quickly. Accolade CEO Raj Singh on video in New York’s Times Square for the virtual ringing of the Nasdaq opening bell.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

The company has been working on its multiplayer virtual reality social space, Horizon, for a while now, which is comparable in concept if not scope to the fantastical VR world of Ready Player One. This week the company announced it’s expanding access and making Horizon an invite-only public beta. social network?

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 29, 2022

Jordi Muñoz became President of prominent early drone company 3D Robotics at age 22, having made himself a world-leading expert in drone design and manufacturing, teaching himself through the universe of resources available through the web and his own experiments.

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Vox

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company will be taking a major step to making its virtual reality metaverse avatars more lifelike: by giving them legs. But seriously, legs are hard, which is why other virtual reality systems don’t have them either.”. I know you’ve been waiting for this.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Spatial, an early player in virtual reality workroom apps, is changing its focus to virtual art galleries showcasing non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. The company announced the news yesterday alongside a $25 million funding round. But over the past year, that’s changed. In the world of work, convenience is really everything”.

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Vox

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The company is trying to refocus away from social media and toward building what it calls the metaverse. The company’s new name indicates that it wants to be the face of the metaverse. Facebook announced its new name, Meta, on October 28. Michael Nagle/Getty Images. Facebook, Inc. is now Meta Platforms, Inc. Meta for short.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 31, 2010

Melcrum recently released a report on How to use social media to solve critical communication issues , with as usual some great case studies and many practical insights. I was asked to write the closing section in the report, on The Future of Social Media and Internal Communications. Email use will be eroded by social media.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Sony has made a $250 million investment in Epic Games, the two companies announced on Thursday. Sony and Epic may want to create more ‘Fortnite’-like virtual multimedia experiences. The deal gives Sony a minority interest in the game development studio and publisher last estimated to be valued as high as $17 billion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If you’re skeptical about dipping your enterprise’s virtual toes into a metaverse, rightfully so. While some investors and developers pulled back , others kept forging ahead, developing chips for augmented and virtual reality, trialing advertising through augmented reality, and “stockpiling gaming content,” according to CBInsights.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In the wake of the Mozilla layoffs, the company behind the Firefox browser has unveiled substantial revisions to its product strategy, signaling a potential refocusing on its flagship browser amidst market share challenges. Hubs : Since early 2023, we have experienced a shift in the market for 3D virtual worlds.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As part of it, the company will stop using facial recognition algorithms to tag people in photographs and videos, and it will delete the facial recognition templates that it uses for identification. Meta says the change will roll out in the coming weeks.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

At its virtual Ignite 2021 conference Tuesday morning, the company announced a new product called Mesh for Teams, which allows workers to take the form of avatars and navigate virtual work environments. Prototypes of products could even be laid out on a virtual table. Microsoft Image). Microsoft Image).

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In stark contrast to human influencers who gain popularity through real-life experiences, talents, or expertise, AI influencers are entirely synthetic characters designed to engage audiences on social media platforms. Social media presence: AI influencers are typically active on various social media platforms, just like human influencers.

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Vox

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, released its long-awaited new virtual reality headset on Tuesday during Meta Connect, its annual developer conference. Many of these professionals use 3D modeling in their day-to-day jobs that could justify the headset’s cost. Courtesy of Meta. It will cost you.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Facebook Reality Labs wants to help people see your eyes while you’re in virtual reality — even if the results sit somewhere between mildly unsettling and nightmarish. It’s useful for quickly dropping out of VR, and it can also enable a form of augmented reality by adding virtual objects to the camera feed. Facebook Reality Labs.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2014

3D Printing - Worldwide shipments of 3D printers are expected to grow 98 percent in 2015, followed by a doubling of unit shipments in 2016. 3D printing will reach a tipping point over the next three years as the market for relatively low-cost 3D printing devices continues to grow rapidly and industrial use expands significantly.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Metaverse , popularized by Mark Zuckerberg when he renamed his company Meta , is the one you’ve probably heard of the most. Or will a small group of us end up playing video games in a completely — and probably lonely — virtual world? Then there are the social effects. It’s a dream the tech industry is still chasing.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Female Founders Alliance unveiled its third accelerator cohort as it looks to help more female and non-binary founders grow their companies and raise funding. The Seattle-based organization this year is hosting a virtual version of its eight-week “ Ready Set Raise ” program, which requires each company to have a female or non-binary CEO.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

“I’ve never been there so I wanted to kind of learn the track and drive it in the virtual world before I drive it in the real world,” Chang said of his COTA practice session. With interest in virtual reality devices growing, “so is their reputation for being a source of pain and embarrassment,” the Journal said.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Pokémon Go creator Niantic Labs is partnering with Punchdrunk, the UK-based production company behind seminal immersive theater piece Sleep No More. It is hugely exciting to be joining forces with the preeminent AR company in the world. Image: Niantic Labs. Immersive theater seems like a prime fit for augmented reality. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

The BPO’s contact center blends various media streams (chat, email, voice, video, social) with self-built AI chatbots and voice bots using the Avaya Experience Platform and Google Dialogflow. The bot then provides a link to enter the university’s self-composed Metaverse (an immersive, virtual 3D space) to explore studying in London.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In a new end-of-the-year post on his GatesNotes blog on Tuesday, the Microsoft co-founder starts by saying that when he and Paul Allen started their software company, the current state of affairs wasn’t exactly their screen-time vision. “The result has been the most unusual and difficult year of my life.” GeekWire Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2022

Long tail’ use cases: As AI becomes ubiquitous in organizations, companies are running out of use cases where the required training data is plentiful and easily available. Using synthetic data to simulate those situations can help a company model those responses.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Intel made its first statement on the metaverse on Tuesday — its first public acknowledgement of that sometimes-nebulous future of computing which promises an always connected virtual world that exists in parallel with our physical one. He says that a 1,000x increase in power is needed over our current collective computing capacity.

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Galido

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The entertainment sector has also benefited from these technological advances through the incorporation of virtual reality into immersion experiences. Rise in Social Media. The future of social networks depends largely on Artificial Intelligence. By 2020, the maximum companies will adopt it for their website. Blockchain.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

It accuses Roblox — a massively popular, kid-focused platform for games and social experiences — of hosting a shared library of copyrighted but unlicensed songs. Roblox offers a library of audio files, 3D models, and other assets for building experiences. The NMPA filed suit yesterday on behalf of several major music publishers.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The world’s largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base Earlier this year, a researcher at Facebook shared some alarming statistics with colleagues. If it doesn’t correct course, the 17-year-old social network could, for the first time, lose out on an entire generation.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Odegard joined the company in 2016 as chief scientific officer. The company announced the promotions last week along with a $85 million Series C round. — Buse previously served as co-CEO and CEO of Monitise, a global mobile banking and payments company, from 2014 to 2015. The company in May announced a $7.5 Scott Porad.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Cook has been singing the praises of AR for five years Tim Cook has just marked 10 years as Apple’s CEO , and while he’s grown Apple into the most valuable company in the world, it’s reasonable to argue he hasn’t yet introduced a signature, industry shaking product like Apple co-founder Steve Jobs did with the iPhone, iPad, Mac and more.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This also means that companies save on both travel and accommodation cost. However, with the impending phasing out of Flash, companies have now begun to transform their eLearning courses to the popular HTML5 format, an open source web format. Here are some quick tips to measure training ROI.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 11, 2012

Dimensions is a 3D graph that explores the varied meaning of words based on cultural context. View more presentations from Tim Stock. Migrations is a 2D matrix that tracks the migration of cultures over time. Signals organizes shared imagery according to modes of expression.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 28, 2012

My keynote focused on the major economic, technological, and social shifts under way and how they impact business travel and how it is managed in organizations. Back in 2005 I wrote about the quasi-3D Teleportec virtual meeting platform.

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Vox

JANUARY 30, 2022

How artists are thinking about the future of virtual reality. I sat on my couch, a virtual reality (VR) headset strapped to my face, my feet hovering over a campfire. But other times it has felt like sitting through a 10-minute 3D sermon, or an Epcot exhibit, or a very janky version of The Sims. Sundance Institute.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

Main constituents: Companies that control access to large blocks of data that can be useful to automated analysis. Companies are re-examining their APIs and setting up stronger controls. Some of the decisions are being swayed by the investment that the company has made in commercial office space.

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