The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Transforming Minecraft , Halo , and Flight Sim into full 3D worlds is an ambitious project, particularly if these environments will allow players to explore them together side by side with VR or AR headsets. Flight Sim and Minecraft even have VR support, too.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

As it goes into public beta, Horizon has been kitted out with new games and environments. That means you can hang out and chat with people in Horizon using custom VR avatars, or play games and activities built with the app’s internal tools.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2020

The software giant has been working on a new “Together Mode” for Teams ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and it’s designed to create a virtual live avatar of yourself that’s supposed to help you better engage with meetings.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

First announced in September 2019 as a private beta, Horizon Worlds has evolved from primarily being a Minecraft -like environment for building games to more of a social platform. Safety is a big concern for a VR environment like Horizon Worlds, where you can easily interact with someone you don’t know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

SL will take longer to gel into a cohesive environment that has a purpose and a following than the explosive growth experienced by WOW. Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. ve found the environment elaborately constructed but humanly forbidding.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

This session will help participants to assess their organization’s technology needs and capacity; work with technical volunteers; and understand the role of technology planning as the foundation for an effective operating environment. Mixed Reality Learning Lab. Dates: All conference long! Get in Touch Via Twitter.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Meta spokesperson Joe Osborne confirmed the stat and said it included users of Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues, a separate app for attending live events in VR that uses the same avatars and basic mechanics. The number doesn’t include Horizon Workrooms, a VR conferencing experience that relies on an invite system.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Allseated grew out of event visualizations, aimed at corporations and the B2B space, creating metaverses for physical events, or “digital event twins”, especially using video avatars that work well in a business environment. The new funding round will mean it can scale its platform and expand beyond events into corporate use.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2023

To round out the new product suite, MeetKai is launching MeetKai Cloud AI, which allows developers to plug a cloud-driven voice assistant into an existing virtual environment. ” Image Credits: MeetKai.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

While companies like Branch and Gather look like video games with a productivity element, Nooks skips the avatar feel altogether, looking closer to Teamflow or Tandem. We don’t actually believe that in order to talk to someone you need to be a video gamer, have your avatar around and go walk up to them,” he said. “It

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AccelEvents

JUNE 15, 2020

Some things you should consider when elevating your virtual trade show experience: Custom Avatars: Allow attendees to build their own avatar that can be used to navigate the virtual environment. Personalization: Beyond the avatar, the virtual trade show experience should be personalized as much as possible.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

It also has a “pro lab” tier that takes on typical network configurations, such as Active Directory or fully patched environments, to test and train people on different attacks and approaches around common enterprise tools and scenarios. HTB is not the first nor only company to build cyber training around a gamified environment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” Hubs provides the dev tools and infrastructure necessary to allow users to visit a portal through any browser and collaborate with others in a VR environment. .” Mozilla launched Hubs in 2018, which it pitched at the time as an “experiment” in “immersive social experiences.”

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2022

The deal also includes patents, like two covering community moderation in decentralized environments. Speaking to CNET , Rosedale said High Fidelity is shifting seven people to work on Second Life. Linden Research launched Sansar , a VR successor to Second Life, a few years ago but sold the project in 2020 to focus on its main title.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Providing this information will show potential attendees that you have considered the value of networking at a physical event and taking the necessary steps to offer similar opportunities in a virtual environment. . Show them how to develop their avatar, fill out their profile, or use the text and video chat features. Show Them How.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

The petition encourages employees to overlay their Slack avatar with the faces of the three women. We know we have real work to do and recognize that it’s our job to build a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for everyone.”. But internally, support has been more measured.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Through the platform, data scientists could customize the avatars’ poses as well as their hair, facial hair, apparel (e.g., ” One of Synthesis AI’s digital avatars. Nvidia researchers have explored a way to use synthetic data created in virtual environments to train robots to pick up objects.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Music Locker has also secured iconic names in DJing like Detroit-based producer Moodymann and Berlin collective Keinemusik to be its first artists in residence, each seemingly getting their own custom GTA Online avatars. Image: Rockstar Games. This isn’t a big departure for the Grand Theft Auto franchise.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

World foundation models , which can simulate real-world environments and predict accurate outcomes based on text, image, or video input, offer a promising solution. They also help train autonomous vehicles by creating realistic environments like the one below.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Stadium Live also has “Rooms,” a feature that’s currently in beta and allows fans to create a unique room with avatar items. We’re building more than just an environment, we’re building a community,” Kim said. Some of the items are interactive, such as a speaker that plays music.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2022

While he didn't describe exactly what that would look like, he said during a session at South By Southwest that "over the next several months, the ability to bring some of your NFTs in, hopefully over time be able to mint things within that environment.". There have been rumblings that this was coming.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. Organizations are using virtual training coach also called avatar, who engages with the learners like a real human being.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Create personalized care environments: Unbound by location, cost and data availability, we can enjoy more personalized healthcare. For example, combining a labor and delivery room with augmented reality will make birth more comfortable by bridging the personal environment of a home birth with the medical sophistication of a specialty clinic.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The show will feature a motion-captured avatar of Lil Nas X dancing around an in-game stage, shouting out the audience, and singing a number of his hits along with a new single, “Holiday,” that debuts this week. Then on Saturday afternoon, Lil Nas X’s avatar will finally perform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Rik Riel is has also written about this and has described it as "avatar engagement." " Everywhere I go in virtual world circles, I seem to encounter folks wrestling with the question: how do you measure avatar engagement? For companies looking to use virtual worlds for marketing, avatar engagement is the Holy Grail.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

People think that AI is this silver bullet and it can solve all your problems, but actually you have to craft the environment and the application problem correctly.”. The projects that I’ve seen fail are mostly because people overestimate how good AI is. Suleyman is now putting that intuition to good use on the venture capital side.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

You can see the back of my avatar in the green skirt, the male avatar is Josh Knauer , and my colleague, Susanne Nyrop from Denmark who we bumped into while wandering around Boracay Island. Anyway, there was a navigational interface that allowed us to project an environment and actually walk through it. It was Peter Morville !

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

Levels – Status: Levels represent a segmentation of the user base and reflect many real world contexts; social and work environments are often based on different hierarchical classes (or levels). In that way, for example, players can express themselves by decorating their avatars and showing them to friends and colleagues.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As Koduri notes in his editorial, we can’t even put two people in a truly detailed virtual environment with today’s technology. And that’s just for two people — scaling up to the hundreds of millions of users that a Ready Player One , Snow Crash , or Matrix -style metaverse concept would require much, much more computing infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Itsme , an Avatar-based social platform. The fund joins a host of others that have raised this year as VCs continue to enjoy a low interest-rate environment that is helping bring cash to their investment firms. Alt , a platform where users can buy and sell alternative assets such as trading cards, the same way you would with stocks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Much of that funding came from New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (NZGCP), a government entity established to create a vibrant early-stage environment in New Zealand, via its Elevate fund of funds program that provides capital to New Zealand VCs investing in Series A and B rounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

Well, experimentation is easier, cheaper, and (perhaps) more telling in these environments. Often they have difficulty, in an uncertain environment, promising specific and verifiable results in a short period of time. vote with their feet,??? these folks can simply fly away. It would be called SecondGoogForce. Or maybe GoogForceLife.).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Users would join as avatars, hang out with other users, and experience VR concerts together.

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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. EKTO VR – Transforms workforce training by simulating the world’s most complex and hazardous environments with wearable technology. The Metaverse. NeuroTrainer, Inc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

At Snap, the Liberman siblings — including Anna and Maria — oversaw an animation studio and worked on Snapchat’s 3D Bitmoji feature, which let users create full-body versions of their avatars. “There is both an opportunity and a challenge in the current environment,” David and Daniil added.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

That's my avatar with a fez I pocked up in Virtual Morocco in Second Life, a student project! How could explore culture in a virtual environment as a learning experience that is connected to a real life experience? I've been curious what a virtual Angkor Wat or other cultural wonders of the world look like in Second Life?

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