TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, a startup in that bigger ecosystem, which believes it can fix one aspect of how this works — how we ourselves appear — is announcing some funding along with a beta of its live avatar software that has been years in the making. For now, you can share the avatars with friends and put them into a dancing animation.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

A small selection of that criteria is as follows: Consistent use of a visually compelling square avatar across all social networks. Project Aware :: projectaware.org. How I chose the nonprofits is that I have a basic set of criteria that I use as a litmus test when I audit nonprofits and their social media campaigns.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

A pair of non-fungible token projects are testing the boundary between plagiarism and parody. Digital marketplace OpenSea has banned the PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club (or PAYC) collections, both of which are based on the same gimmick: selling NFTs with mirrored but otherwise identical versions of high-priced Bored Ape Yacht Club avatars.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Then, the image is projected onto an outward-facing light field display. FRL used a simple rendering of a virtual face, but it also showed off the system with its more realistic Codec Avatars, as seen below. FRL acknowledges that the system’s individual components aren’t all revolutionary. of a sort.

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

TikTok owner Douyin is piloting a new AI-driven feature, dubbed the V Project, introducing virtual avatars designed to mimic creators’ personalities and habits, enabling 24/7 interactions with users, according to Chinese media outlet Tech Star.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

A featured avatar and header image. Purchasing a.NGO domain in and of itself is a wise investment, but becoming part of an effort to build the largest international database of verified NGOs not only benefits your NGO, but all NGOs worldwide. ONG Profile Includes: 1. A Featured video section and the ability to create photo slideshows.

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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. Institutional investors are also making their bets on the NFT “metaverse.”

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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?) And given the more than $60 billion the company's Reality Labs has wasted on the project since 2020, the result is astonishingly bad.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

If fundraising is central to your campaign, you can also create a crowdfunding project and/or a social fundraising campaign to encourage others to raise funds for you nonprofit during the campaign. Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and the hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics.

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The Verge

MARCH 24, 2022

A Frosties NFT avatar. After selling the NFTs, they shut down the project and transferred its funds to a series of separate crypto wallets, leaving Frosties owners bereft of promised rewards. Frosties was a buzzy project whose 8,888 NFTs — priced at the Ethereum equivalent of roughly $130 — sold out within an hour of the public launch.

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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. JP Games describes The Pegasus Dream Tour as an “avatar RPG” set in Pegasus City. You can create a character based on a selfie from your phone, and train them in various para-sports.

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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. Image: Microsoft. Minecraft already supports VR headsets.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

Long ago, an Xbox user who goes by Noukon on Twitter purchased a Pac-Man ghost avatar for a dollar. Over the years, as the Xbox user interface underwent changes and iterations, Noukon’s avatar got smaller and smaller until it was little more than a tiny blue square lost in the endless gray sea of the Xbox avatar display.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 2, 2023

AVATAR ), which investigates the contribution of entire visual frames, and not just the mouth region. The former projects visual features in the audio token embedding space. AVFormer outperforms AVATAR and BEST-RQ on all, even outperforming both AVATAR and BEST-RQ when they are trained on LibriSpeech and the full set of HowTo100M.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

You need a good avatar. People now expect professional online communications and fundraising campaigns and if you don’t project that image, the online and mobile donors and supporters of the future will not take your nonprofit seriously. You need Twitter and YouTube backgrounds that make a strong first impression.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

Snap is introducing the ability to pose your Bitmoji avatar on your Snapchat profile in 3D, the company announced on Monday. Some Bitmoji in 3D. Image: Snap. For your 3D Bitmoji, you’ll be able to pick from more than 1,200 combinations of body poses, facial expressions, gestures, and backgrounds, according to Snap.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Text communications are new for the organization and I have been thrilled to be part of the team working on the project. 3) Creating a webpage on our website specifically for the social media community and offer Twitter backgrounds, avatars, copy and paste status updates/tweets and downloads for people to use and share. (4)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. The complete list of projects can be found here. Avatar Action Center.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. Upload work projects, such as presentations, videos, or special fundraising campaigns. It’s for this reason that nonprofits have been slow to adopt LinkedIn Ads.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project. With Active Replica, Ervin and Denis sought to built a platform for virtual events and meetings built on top of Mozilla’s Hubs project.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2022

A strengthened “commitment to growing an innovative, inclusive, and diverse metaverse” includes Second Life founder Philip Rosedale rejoining the project as a strategic adviser. 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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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But Honda won’t say what fraction of that amount will be spent on developing rockets, robots, and flying cars, nor even if it plans on pursuing those projects as commercial businesses. How successful any of these research projects will be remains to be seen.

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The Verge

AUGUST 26, 2021

Generative profile picture NFTs are all the rage, but creators say it’s not just about the money The first time Tom Williamson and Rob Mehew tried to make an NFT project, they landed on unicorns. They called the project Faticorns , generated 10,000 of the creatures, and put them all on sale. Overweight unicorns, actually.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

XOXO Festival co-founder Andy Baio unveiled his newest project on Tuesday : a new platform for virtual events called Skittish. You attend events as an adorable animal avatar, and explore the worlds created for you by clicking around with your mouse or navigating with the WASD keys on your keyboard like you might in a video game.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets. Sparked.com is an online portal of volunteers that have signed up to offer small amounts of time to complete Web-based projects requested by nonprofits.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

If you integrate this API in your product, it means that you can show when somebody joins a page, a project or a document by displaying an avatar in a corner. Essentially, it lets you create multiplayer experiences on the web or in your app. The company started with a live presence state API.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The global location-based virtual reality market is projected to reach $26.3 One day, it’ll be like stepping into a portal where players can embody their persistent virtual avatars,” Zhao said. . The company has 35 employees globally as of October, Zhao said. Sandbox VR currently operates 12 retail locations in the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets. Sparked.com is an online portal of volunteers that have signed up to offer small amounts of time to complete Web-based projects requested by nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Susan Tenby and I were co-authors (our real life and avatar photos above). Technorati Tags: secondlife.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

The project also takes inspiration from other projects Toff worked on at Google’s AR/VR division, like its VR and AR app-building service Poly (which became another Google causality in 2020 ), and the 3D modeling tool for VR, Blocks. Nor can users create avatars that can move or interact with others, or engage in chats.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The beanie is supposed to be the one worn by GMoney’s CryptoPunks avatar. NFT project creators will tell you that the real value of their tokens comes from building a community around them and developing a roadmap to deliver new experiences. You belong to a community, and we continue to add value to that over time.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets. Sparked.com is an online portal of volunteers that have signed up to offer small amounts of time to complete Web-based projects requested by nonprofits.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Instead, Spatial is focusing on collaborations with artists who want to show off their NFT projects. They can then place the images into gallery spaces like virtual paintings, letting guests mill around and talk to each other with avatars or live videos that float above the avatars’ heads.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Facebook teases ‘Project Cambria’ high-end VR / AR headset. Amid the fluff, Meta showed an impressive demo of its Codec Avatars. Oculus users are getting a new metaverse home. Facebook is adding a mixed reality platform to Oculus Quest. Eight things we learned from the Facebook Papers. Facebook’s lost generation.

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