Vox

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The company is trying to refocus away from social media and toward building what it calls the metaverse. From now on, we’re going to be metaverse first, not Facebook first,” Zuckerberg said at Facebook Connect, the company’s virtual and augmented reality developer conference. “As Facebook announced its new name, Meta, on October 28.

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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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Vox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Or will a small group of us end up playing video games in a completely — and probably lonely — virtual world? Like the Meta Quest, the new Apple headset can do fully immersive virtual reality, but it’s also capable of combining virtual elements with images of the real world, kind of like the Google Glass concept did.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast , where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. Meta opens up access to its VR social platform Horizon Worlds. Apple’s AR headset reportedly uses 3D sensors for hand tracking.

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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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Galido

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The entertainment sector has also benefited from these technological advances through the incorporation of virtual reality into immersion experiences. It will be able to detect a player’s progress and provide specific advice reports Gamerbolt.com. Rise in Social Media. 3D Printers.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. FFA is a social purpose corporation , a type of profit corporation the state of Washington created in 2012, and is funded primarily through corporate partners.

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

There’s virtual reality and there’s augmented reality — both of these are incredibly interesting. And nobody in here, few people in here, think it’s acceptable to be tethered to a computer walking in here and sitting down, few people are going to view that it’s acceptable to be enclosed in something, because we’re all social people at heart.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

» A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds Ross Dawson, February 20, 2007 5:02 AM US PT Hey, how come I read about this on Scobleizer first? Second Life has established itself as the de facto leader in user-created free-form virtual worlds. TD Goodcliffe believes that the space is open for the taking.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 18, 2008

Description: Global mobile and web-based community, including social networking and messaging such as IM, email, text and photo sharing. Description: Social networking platform covering sports from national to school level for sports enthusiasts, players, teams and parents, allowing discussions and photo and video sharing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

“The market is growing so fast that it’s hard to keep tabs on it,” says IDC analyst Matt Arcaro, adding that the pandemic has accelerated computer vision adoption — for example, for monitoring occupancy to help ensure social distancing or to keep track of how many people were using public transit.

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Vox

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In a memo to Meta’s staff also posted on social media, one of Meta’s top executives, CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, reflected on Monday about the difficult moment the company is in. But Meta still needs to keep making money by growing its main business: selling ads on social media.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Colossal Cave 3D After a couple of delays, Ken and Roberta Williams’ update of the classic text adventure Colossal Cave arrived on Jan. 19, as both a virtual-reality adventure on the Meta Quest 2, and a 2D first-person game that’s available on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, and Epic. Fire Emblem Engage Engage , released Jan.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

3D TV without glasses is a reality and not far from commercialization. While 3D efforts using colored or polarizing glasses will continue for some time, the real future is in providing different images to each eye, as in Philips’ 3D TV initiatives. It will also be possible to generate realistic 3D images from 2D video.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 2, 2007

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , the prescient Living Networks , which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). Have a look and play with the ideas.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. It’s the next big breakthrough in technology. It’s a joke. It’s a marketing strategy. So what is the metaverse, really?

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GeekWire

JANUARY 30, 2023

The tool they showcased, called LifeAt Spaces , was seen and shared millions of times on various social media platforms. ” (LifeAt screenshot) LifeAt users choose from a selection of “spaces” to set as their virtual backdrop, ranging from a coffee shop to a simulated Zoom call with Zac Efron.

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Vox

JULY 1, 2022

When Mark Zuckerberg announced last year that Facebook was changing its name to Meta and that, within five years, the company would transition from being primarily a social media company to a “metaverse” one , many people were skeptical, confused, or downright scared. And that arguably didn’t happen the last time around.

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 26, 2024

Further engaging interactive textbooks can contain: Simulations and virtual labs Hyperlinks and cross-references Note-taking and annotation tools Interactive 3D models Language customization Responsive design for mobile devices 2. Further, it has become equally relevant to make learning more interactive using social learning platforms.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

You had three phrases that sounded annoyed, irritated or disgusted,” the app reported one recent evening, recapping my daily interactions. “Find a well-lit area and try to avoid light from behind,” a voice from the app instructed me as it prepared to conduct a high-tech, 3D body scan.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In fact, Axios reported last week that the term had been used 128 times in investor presentations this year, up from seven in the prior year. Of course, no one likes to talk about this immersive and interactive virtual world more than Facebook CEO — sorry, we meant Meta CEO — Mark Zuckerberg. In your words, describe the metaverse.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2015

I’ve been blogging for years about a variety of research efforts which additively culminated in today’s announcements: HoloLens, HoloStudio for 3D holographic building, and a series of apps (e.g. I’ve worn it, used it, designed 3D models with it, explored the real surface of Mars, played and laughed and marveled with it.

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Vox

MAY 9, 2023

The implications of Meta integrating AI more deeply into its core products could fundamentally change the way people make and consume content on the world’s largest social media apps, bringing us closer to what some have called a “ semiautomated social network ” — in which AI can create its own posts or even create entire accounts.

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Kitaboo

JULY 21, 2023

For instance, audiobooks, virtual reality, and interactive eBooks enhanced with games and multimedia have gained popularity. eBooks are being leveraged as a content tool by a mix of K12 education providers, brands, non-profits, independent authors, and social media influencers because of their accessible, shareable quality.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

“We also believe that the world is going to break into real-time 3D,” citing sports broadcasts as an example. ” On the metaverse: Bach asked Fils-Aimé about the social implications of the metaverse, where someone might have an entirely different life in virtual reality.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 20, 2020

41% of Americans reported an adverse health mental condition related to COVID-19. Specialist manufacturing is returning onshore, local 3D printing and assembly is rising, the demand for quality local food production is soaring, and nations are focusing on food and energy independence. – CapGemini World Wealth Report 2020.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 7, 2006

Having recently delved into World of Warcraft and been staggered at how far the multiplayer online games have come in the last years, I don’t doubt that a significant portion of many people’s lives will be spent in virtual worlds, as and when the graphic and interaction quality is up to it. And sex will be part of that virtual interaction.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Delivery-only “ghost kitchens” exploded during the pandemic, so we invented a bunch of our own for this story about virtual chicken wing brands. This report from Ashley Carman covers how difficult and nuanced it is to moderate podcasts, and how that is a growing issue for a number of companies. William Joel, creative director.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

Her recent trend reports and presentations include “Transhumanism, How to Train Your Cyborg,” “The Blockchain Effect,” and “The Fragmented Future of Finance.” She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson. Atlassian buys Percept.ai.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

The link is not entirely workplace-friendly, even though the article itself is mainly about social and technological trends, so I’ve posted the full article below.) Similarly, many a relationship has been terminated because one party (quite often, a woman, it seems) finds evidence of physical or virtual infidelity in sent messages.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

But Shopify doesn’t really fit into the same category of laws as Twitter or Facebook or other social media platforms — so it has a different set of moderation challenges, and it’s worth thinking about whether the enterprise software that powers online stores should have to meet the same moderation standards as TikTok or YouTube. Is it proud?

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