The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One part definition, one part aspiration, one part hype In recent months you may have heard about something called the metaverse. 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. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone.

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TechNode

APRIL 23, 2024

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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

As the team kept winning, W+K kept hyping the connectionacross social media and IRL by turning the Empire State Building purple, and sending Grimace on the 7 train ahead of a playoff game. For longtime client Nike, W+K effectively tapped into the incredible waves of hype surrounding Caitlin Clarks final season of NCAA basketball.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

The company had raised over $2 billion by promising incredible hardware that would open up a new artistic medium — the first plausible avatar for the long-held dream of mixed reality. Flush with hype, the company hired science fiction luminaries, designed a product from scratch, and beat Apple and Facebook to market.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A lot of the metaverse hype has been built around what you’ll do there, be it virtual reality meetings, digital concerts , and of course, blockchain and NFT-based integrations. It’s easy to ride the hype and start pitching fantastical ideas of selling NFTs that will follow you from place to place in different games and virtual settings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

leans on OpenAI’s GPT , tailoring the much-hyped language model on high-profile open source projects and StackOverflow articles to help it derive scores on code quality, for example. .” Under the hood, Prog.ai profile example. Image Credits: Prog.ai At the time of writing, Prog.ai

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