The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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. There are also broader metaverse-related taxonomies like one from game designer Raph Koster , who draws a distinction between “online worlds,” “multiverses,” and “metaverses.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Less than a year ago, WildWorks, the makers of the kid’s virtual world game Animal Jam , launched its next big effort with a game aimed at Gen Z teens, called Feral. “Transactions on these blockchains can be more efficient than the credit card networks we use to take payments in most of our games now,” wrote Stacey.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Instagram :: instagr.am. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Matrix Awakens single-handedly proves next-gen graphics are within reach of Sony and Microsoft’s new game consoles. When we said the next generation of gaming didn’t actually arrive with Xbox Series X and PS5 , this is the kind of push that has the potential to turn that around. Image: Epic Games. The city surface is 15.79

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

AI-powered text-, art- and audio-generating systems will soon make — and already are making — their way into the tools people use every day, from programming environments and spellcheck plugins to concept art creation platforms. The video game industry is no exception to this, and that hardly comes as a surprise.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Blockchain-based games have seen a surge in popularity, but playing them is getting expensive. Play-to-earn games like StepN require players to purchase an NFT before they can participate, while other crypto video games offer users pricey upgrades such as virtual avatars and distinctive skins or costumes. ”

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

Image: Unit 2 Games. Google Stadia’s upcoming exclusive game Crayta launches July 1st with support for a beta version of State Share, the cloud gaming service’s experimental tech that lets any Stadia user jump instantaneously into another person’s game by following a link.

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TechNode

AUGUST 25, 2023

Net revenue from games and related value-added services amounted to RMB 18.8 Games accounted for 78.3% Why it matters: In the second quarter, NetEases games, including flagship titles Fantasy Westward Journey series and Eggy Party, performed steadily. of its online games income in the second quarter. billion ($2.6

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the past year, generative AI has transformed the way people live, work and play, enhancing everything from writing and content creation to gaming, learning and productivity. NVIDIA NIM helps address these challenges by offering prepackaged, state-of-the-art AI models optimized for PCs. Sign up for Project R2X updates.

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The Verge

AUGUST 26, 2021

Plump and slumped over, unable to stand up on their own four hooves, and illustrated in a chunky 16-bit art style. You can think of these NFT series a bit like big games of Pokémon, except each creature can only be captured once. That’s a loser’s game,” Gargamel says. After NFTs comes merch, events, and games.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

He started putting together a thesis around NFTs and social networks while visiting Amsterdam, where he had a chance to closely observe how social networks formed in person at art galleries, restaurants, and parties around a shared interest in Solana. Primitives is designed to be easy to use, Gabeau said.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. When mobile wallets go mainstreaam, this simple tweak in text-to-give fundraising will be a game changer. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When we think of the metaverse, popularly depicted as a game-like virtual environment where humans use avatars to live, work, and play, we’re often the main characters. But Cross goes on to suggest using a digital person to play a game like Call of Duty. Digital people running on Soul Machines’ dystopian-sounding Humans OS 2.0

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The state of the art in VR still requires thousands of dollars of PC gaming hardware, with plenty of drawbacks (like requiring a tethered headset and graphics that still don’t measure up to what 2021’s best flatscreen games can offer).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

A video calling / interactive gaming device specifically designed to make it easier for children to communicate with friends and family remotely, the Amazon Glow is attempting to make these rather forced interactions more natural, engaging, and fun. My 10-year-old chatting with her grandma while they both draw in the Glow’s art program.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I didn’t think it would be that compelling to meditate in a group with avatars, but I went and tried a few of their meditations, especially during the pandemic. “When I was at Electronic Arts, I knew how toxic game communities can be and how they are not friendly to women.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

AI art apps are having a moment — thanks to Lensa AI. This week, TC’s Sarah Perez spotted the rise of AI art apps all over the App Store , seemingly jumping off the success of Lensa AI’s viral avatar generators. 6 gifts for coffee lovers looking to up their game. Here are the best books that TechCrunch read this year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Bigthinx – AI technology focused on fashion retail, wellness and the metaverse with products for body scanning, digital avatars and virtual fashion. echo3D – Cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR that provides tools and network infrastructure to help quickly build and deploy 3D/metaverse apps, games and content. The Metaverse.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

It''s resulted in some of my favorite work ever: games like #namethatzoom , projects like FeederSketch , adult-only Ball Pits , and most importantly, the creation of Experimonth , which is what I''d like to blog about today. But at my museum , the support doesn''t stop at our visitors. Experimonth started out as play.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Because these projects take the basic act of tagging and wrap it in two powerful motivators--gaming and community. That's why some institutions have used game mechanics to incentivize tagging. A year and a half ago, I wrote about Carnegie Mellon-created two games that allow you to competitively tag images on the Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It is a digital reality – a cyberspace made up of multiple virtual worlds – that combines components of social media, gaming, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), cryptocurrencies, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The gaming community pioneered VR, but the technology is now expanding worldwide into all aspects of society.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

But what's the right visitor profile for a history museum or an art museum? At the Brooklyn Museum, you are invited to pick a digital avatar (image) from their collection to represent you. The Signtific game encourages you to pick a single word to describe yourself (I chose "museumer"). Some allow you to write your life story.

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

Alongside digital DIY tools like Twine, Bitsy has made game-making genuinely approachable In the video game Under A Star Called Sun , players wake up alone on a spaceship. A friend passed away in 2019; they loved sci-fi, so a year later Richard made a game set on a spaceship. Illustration by Álvaro Bernis / The Verge.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

What was so compelling about the members of the de facto club that had formed among the owners of the exorbitantly priced avatars? But in line, the Yacht Club members talked up their own, non-Ape zoo-animal-themed limited avatars. Art and commerce’s mingling isn’t some new scandal, anyway. This is kind of about art, right?”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Some high street clothes retailers have also got into the rentals game. So there’s competition aplenty — and, for new founders seeking an ‘in’, that means they face the age-old challenge of standing out in a crowd. So they’re shooting for the startup to be trend-led on the tech side too.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its easy to say that the name of the advertising game has always been attention. But the level of skill, belief, strategic rigor, creative confidence, and sheer will required to win this game has never been higher or more complex. If the game really was the closest thing to the real deal, why not make it that much closer?

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Two organizations, Earth Day Initiative (EDI) and March for Science NYC , are collaborating to offer a series of online events culminating in a virtual march and rally using an online gaming platform. Art: Cachetejack. The film will debut on Apple TV Plus today, April 16th; you can watch the trailer here.

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Engadget

APRIL 16, 2025

Without going all the way back to the 1800s , the first Avatar movie brought millions to theaters to watch blue cat people dance around in stereoscopic vision. In games, the monitor can handle two different levels of integration. So instead of being a distraction, it simply added a bit of atmosphere to the game.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 2, 2025

A trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash , the third film in James Camerons galactically successful series, starts by delivering on the titles promise. The fake Avatar trailer, which relies on some truly abysmal AI, is part of a scourge of similar videos designed to trick movie lovers into thinking theyve found a first look at an upcoming flick.

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Engadget

MARCH 6, 2025

Everything in this game is super stylish, from the blocky 3D avatars to the detailed, painterly icons that accompany their dialogue boxes. Akupara Games Michelle spends her time exploring the underworld and chasing the ghosts of The Duchess former victims er, lovers while gathering the strength to fight the archdemon head-on.

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