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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

TechCrunch

Digital avatar startup Genies , known its for high-profile partnerships with celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Migos and Cardi B, has just released its long-anticipated NFT storefront, “The Warehouse.” Second, he added, avatars allow people to have ownership and individuality within the digital world.

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JD pushes livestreaming appearances of founder Richard Liu’s avatar ahead of  618 e-commerce festival

TechNode

An avatar of JD founder Richard Liu participated in its third livestreaming show on Monday as part of a promotional event for this years World Book Day. The e-commerce giant will reportedly offer free services to merchants to try avatar-based livestreams during 618.

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Microsoft Teams opens its doors to third-party apps during meetings

The Verge

Applications can span across chat and collaboration and easily have a workflow that expands into meetings now,” explains Michal Lesiczka, a group product manager of Microsoft Teams, in an interview with The Verge. It’s a big expansion of what third-party apps are able to do in Microsoft Teams right now. GIF: Microsoft.

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Facebook teases a vision of remote work using augmented and virtual reality

The Verge

Facebook and Oculus’ joint work on hand tracking, more realistic avatars, spatial audio, and more powerful wireless technology illustrate how seriously the company is committed to the idea of virtual presence and making it as powerful as possible. VR and AR is all about giving people remote presence,” Zuckerberg said. “So

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VR workrooms app Spatial is now an NFT art platform

The Verge

Spatial’s original pitch was a virtual workspace where people could don VR headsets, talk to co-workers in virtual meetings, and collaborate by examining virtual items. Instead, Spatial is focusing on collaborations with artists who want to show off their NFT projects. But over the past year, that’s changed.

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VUZ raises $20 million to scale its immersive social app

TechCrunch

Users can access and engage different content — in addition to those mentioned above, live events, concerts, celebrity interviews and masterclasses, through its 360-degree live streams — by downloading VUZ’s iOS and Android apps. Over 44% of these views come from the Middle East, 32% from the U.S. and 24% from Egypt.

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Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters

TechCrunch

It was founded to make interactions with characters in virtual worlds and games more engaging and lifelike,” Gelfenbeyn told TechCrunch in an email interview. “There is a healthy ecosystem of innovation in virtual characters, from companies that focus on visuals, avatars, hardware, motion and more.

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