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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VentureBeat

MARCH 3, 2025

The market is getting its test now as to whether VTubers — where humans give voice to 3D avatars in concert performances — can catch fire on the global stage. Cover Corp. has expanded outside of Japan, bringing virtual creators known as VTubers to U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Only in the current market can one wonder how a celebrity avatar startup that sells NFT accessories took so long to hit a unicorn valuation. Genies, an LA-based digital avatar startup, announced Tuesday that it had raised $150 million in funding from Silver Lake, with participation from Bond, NEA and Tamarack Global.

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The Verge

JUNE 12, 2021

Ubisoft capped off its E3 keynote with a big surprise: a first look at Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The game appears to be built with next-gen hardware in mind. The next-gen take on James Cameron’s world looks gorgeous, and Ubisoft says it’s being built with its own Snowdrop engine at internal studio Massive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

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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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Instead of swiping through profiles, SwoonMe’s idea is to use a combination of avatars and audio to encourage users to connect based on someone’s personality, not their appearance. To use the app, you take a selfie which SwoonMe converts into an avatar. As they communicate, their avatar will slowly unveil their real photo.

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Digital Trends

JULY 21, 2022

Ubisoft's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora game is set to debut around the next Avatar film. Here's what we know, including how you'll be able to play it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Last month, it added an AI-powered video (avatar) feature that looks like a real person. Most of its users are primarily creators and enterprise clients that use the tool for creating a video or audio content for their business or personal channels like vlogs and games, Kim told TechCrunch. Image Credits: Neosapience. raises $1.5M

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TechSpot

MAY 29, 2023

Jensen unveiled Nvidia Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for Games during his Computex keynote speech, a custom AI service that Nvidia says brings intelligence to non-playable characters through AI-powered natural language interactions. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Microsoft just announced its Microsoft Teams metaverse for meetings and video calls, but the company also has plans for gaming and entertainment. Speaking to Bloomberg TV , Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the software maker is “absolutely” focused on gaming for the metaverse with Xbox. If you take Halo as a game, it is a metaverse.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Jio Platforms, the biggest telecom operator in India and which has raised over $20 billion from Facebook, Google and other high-profile investors this year, is leading a financing round of a San Francisco-based startup that develops augmented reality mobile games.

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Digital Trends

JULY 2, 2020

Documentary explores if romantic relationships that began in the gaming world can endure in the real world.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Today, Snapchat is getting a new original game called Bitmoji Paint. As the name suggests, the game involves Bitmoji — those cutely grotesque customizable avatars — and painting. s second title from its internal games studio, which began putting out games last year. It’s Snap Inc.’s Zoom out, and you get pixel art.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

At its annual developer’s conference, Roblox detailed its near-future plans to expand beyond its identity as a game platform for kids.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While Meta tries to convince users to attend virtual work meetings in its metaverse , ForeVR Games , a VR gaming startup with casual games like bowling, darts and cornhole, is a reminder that virtual reality is supposed to be fun. Much like Wii Sports, ForeVR games are designed to be easy to play.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Many of those Apps are already in development (@ Kiva4iPhone ), but at this early in the game hiring someone to develop an iPhone App for your nonprofit is expensive. As an iPhone user, I personally would love to download the Apps of my favorite nonprofits and have their avatars displayed on my iPhone. Very expensive.

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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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Digital Trends

JUNE 12, 2021

Ubisoft kicked off E3 with a stream that highlighted games like Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, Rainbow Six Extraction, and more.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Luxury fashion company Balenciaga will debut its next clothing collection in a video game on December 6th, according to WWD. Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow is an “allegorical adventure” set in the year 2031, in which “a hero avatar advances throughout distinct zones, motivated by tasks and interactions.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Taking the form of an anime-style avatar, Moemate — powered by a combo of models including GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude — aims to supply and vocalize the best answer to any question a user asks of it. (“Moe” is a Japanese word relating to cuteness, often in anime.)

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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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Digital Trends

JUNE 24, 2021

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, will use some new tech from Ubisoft's Snowdrop engine, as well as ray tracing, to bring the world of Pandora to life.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

Microsoft is reportedly working on a program that will let brands showcase advertisements within free-to-play Xbox games, according to a report from Insider. Sources familiar with the situation told Insider that the ads wouldn’t disrupt gameplay and may appear on a billboard in a racing game, for example.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It has worked on some of the biggest movies and TV shows over the last few decades, including Avatar, The Avengers, Game of Thrones, and the LotR franchise. Weta Digital, a separate company from Weta Workshop, was co-founded by Jackson in 1993. The deal will see Unity acquire Weta Digital's.

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The Verge

JANUARY 9, 2021

Oh hey, it’s all of my PC games available to play on the Quest 2, wire-free, from within a virtual room. One of the best features of the Oculus Quest 2 is it can be manually linked via USB to your gaming PC to play more demanding VR games you couldn’t otherwise run natively on the headset. This is getting weird.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And while crypto investors are buying up avatars and digital swaths of land in hopes that a digital universe will spring up around these projects, it’s unclear which projects — if any — will stand the test of time. Over the weekend, the company sold 6,666 NFT hoverboards for $4.4 million worth of the Ethereum cryptocurrency.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The 44-second clip Meta shared on Instagram over the weekend shows misshapen avatar characters sitting in a circle of chairs while discussing their breakups (because of Valentine's Day, apparently?) My ex broke up with me via text using emojis," one avatar says in the video while waving his arms around. "I

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Image: Epic Games. A newly released iOS app from Epic Games lets developers record facial expressions that can be imported directly into the Unreal Engine, using little more than an iPhone’s front-facing camera. It’s the same technology that powers Apple’s Animoji and Memoji , which map your facial expressions onto cartoon avatars.

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The Verge

MAY 16, 2021

The first project from Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata’s new studio JP Games will finally be released next month, the company has announced. The Pegasus Dream Tour is a mobile RPG themed around the Paralympic Games, the first game ever to carry the official Paralympics license.

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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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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The apparel giant just announced the acquisition of RTFKT Studios , which it calls “a leading brand that leverages cutting edge innovation to deliver next generation collectibles that merge culture and gaming.”. million at the time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Related to this move, Epic Games’ “ Fortnite Mode” feature , which leveraged Houseparty to bring video chat to Fortnite gamers, will also be discontinued.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

While the world writhes in the clutches of a seemingly never-ending wave of chaos, one Twitch streamer’s heartwarming struggle to win a game of the new battle royale sensation Fall Guys is a story we can all happily rally around. But against all odds, Tim prevailed, winning a final round of the mini-game Hex-A-Gone to claim his first crown.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Our official launch of text communication will be done at a Los Angeles Kings hockey game on November 27 th. At the beginning of the game, Lisa Niemi Swayze will be there to do a “puck-drop.” Our official launch of text-to-donate will be January 3, 2011 at another Los Angeles Kings hockey game.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Unity will acquire Weta Digital, the VFX company behind Avatar, Lord of the Rings, and more in a $1.625 billion deal.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Like a box of LEGOS, Rooms is meant for open-ended play where people use the objects to express themselves in some way — whether that’s building a tiny version of a real-world room, a dream room, or by creating some sort of interactive space, like a simple game or a musical instrument you can click to play, or something else.

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