TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

SoWork, a virtual co-working startup, began after Punwani and his co-founders decided to build a machine learning edtech company. So, combining their love for building and gaming, the group put together an internal communication product inspired by virtual worlds. Permanence is the elephant in the room for any virtual HQ.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

The island is sponsored by Dutch bankers ABN Amro and the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and was build by students of the VUA. Both organisations are looking for new ways of fundraising and are looking into the possibilities in Virtual Worlds. Rik Riel is has also written about this and has described it as "avatar engagement."

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2022

Twitter is working on ways to showcase such blockchain-supported items , while Reddit launched its own collection of NFT avatars for users. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, have been gaining support with other established web platforms in recent months.

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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! I've been curious what a virtual Angkor Wat or other cultural wonders of the world look like in Second Life? How could explore culture in a virtual environment as a learning experience that is connected to a real life experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

Hat tip to Jay Moonah for the pointer to this Gartner article about virtual worlds. Meaningful corporate use of public virtual worlds/platforms will lag. Meaningful corporate use of public virtual worlds/platforms will lag. Gartner's five laws for exploring virtual worlds at the enterprise level. second life, ???

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook is bringing the office to VR with Horizon Workrooms It wasn’t long into a recent press briefing I attended in virtual reality when Mark Zuckerberg showed up to talk about the metaverse. A companion desktop app lets you beam a live feed of your computer screen over your virtual table space.

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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., masks and glasses), and environmental aspects like the lighting and even the “lens type” of the virtual camera. ” One of Synthesis AI’s digital avatars.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

But Microsoft and AiFi claim that the service doesn’t use facial recognition or biometrics, only creating a virtual avatar of customers as they enter retail stores. AiFi’s autonomous in-store tracking tech in action, with avatar stand-ins for real shoppers. million purchases to date.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

– Tech-enabled, virtual respiratory care provider that makes it easy to take the unknown and unmanageable out of respiratory illness and give control back to the patients suffering from it. Mindset Medical – Delivers a portfolio of proprietary virtual technologies that advance the full continuum of patient care.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The most Kiwi of deep tech startups, however, is Halter — a company that spun out of Rocket Lab and produces solar-powered smart cow collars that allow farmers to remotely shift and virtually fence and monitor cows in order to optimize pasture time.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When we think of the metaverse, popularly depicted as a game-like virtual environment where humans use avatars to live, work, and play, we’re often the main characters. The company has digital people repping the World Health Organization, Maryville University, Westpac bank, the New Zealand police, and SK-II skincare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

Last week, I met an avatar named Budley Omegamu who turned out to be Sombit Mishra who is a Technology Associate at GlobalGiving. Prior to joining GlobalGiving, he completed his Masters in International Relations at the London School of Economics and his Bachelors in Economics/History at Northwestern University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The new default for VR, if you’re okay with Facebook As someone who writes about virtual reality and has been stuck at home just like many people during the 2020 pandemic, I’ve gotten asked one question over and over: if virtual reality is so great and actual reality is so dangerous, why isn’t everybody turning to VR?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

——————————————————————————- 3DLOOK A retail tech start-up behind the virtual fitting room YourFit. It has now moved to Poland and set up the office there.

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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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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. A series of research grants for the University of Miami. A collaboration with virtual comics company Madefire.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Look for mobile providers to combine these ideas to enable a virtual meeting environment with video, audio, whiteboard, and presentations from multiple attendees. Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

“I’ve been in the industry for over ten years… Anna[‘s] worked with independent designers forever. So they’re shooting for the startup to be trend-led on the tech side too. “We’ve not even dipped our toes [in web 3] but we’ve been to a few events.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In April, FCB worked with Michelob Ultra and F1s Williams Racing to create an incredibly unique sports TV special called Lap of Legends , the first-ever real-versus-virtual F1 race. Current F1 driver Logan Sargeant raced against the virtual avatars of Williams Racing legends like Mario Andretti, Alain Prost, and Jacques Villeneuve.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Once again, most Earth Day celebrations will be virtual. Join a virtual march and rally. Two organizations, Earth Day Initiative (EDI) and March for Science NYC , are collaborating to offer a series of online events culminating in a virtual march and rally using an online gaming platform. Virtual 5K race.

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Futurism

APRIL 6, 2025

Researchers have developed a virtual reality program that puts domestic abusers in the position of their victims and they say it seems to be working toward rehabilitating them. Like Sylvester, many of the men involved in Barnes' program had visceral reactions to the virtual abuse they experienced. the abusive avatar continued.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

It has this magical simplicityone character on a tiny planet, a self-contained universe full of imagination. We didnt want it to feel like you were talking to an avatar pretending to be a person. We wanted that feeling in Tolans world, Zanotto tells me over Zoom. Thats where the alien design comes in.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 12, 2025

When Yorkie asks Kelly to stay with her, to live forever in this virtual reality, Kelly has to think about everything else that was part of her life, including her family — but in the end, it's them versus the world, and they conquer it. — P.K. Still, there's some comfort in a phone call. This goes on until Danny ends it.

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