Wired

JUNE 9, 2025

The Workout app has a new Workout Buddy—an AI voice companion that keeps track of your workout data and can talk to you (though your AirPods) while you’re running, tell you how you did on a run, or select music to hype you up. He is currently training to be a virtual reality DJ.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To promote the sequel to Ready Player One — a book about a treasure hunt inside a virtual universe — author Ernest Cline has partnered with the hit kids game Roblox to re-create something akin to the plot of the original novel: a hunt for clues and prizes inside a virtual world. Roblox is the closest thing to the Oasis in real life.”.

Virtual

The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2022

A recruiter works on a computer, 19 June 2007 at the cyber cafe “Le Milk” in Paris, during the Neo Job-Meeting (NJM) event, the first virtual job fair on the 3-D “Second Life” on-line game. Speaking to CNET , Rosedale said High Fidelity is shifting seven people to work on Second Life. HighFidelityXR Invests in @SecondLife.

Second Life

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Seraphine is a virtual influencer, though as her growing fan base quickly noticed, there’s something different about her. Her posts are filled with League of Legends easter eggs, and she released an acoustic cover of “Pop/Stars,” the 2018 League anthem from the virtual K-pop group K/DA. Oh, and she also isn’t real.

Influence

AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Maybe you’ve heard about the hype and are eager to see how an event can drive your brand awareness. Or, your brand has a virtual event idea aimed at increasing revenue, but you are not sure of the right way to do it. Virtual events are one of the best ways to boost revenue and are great for increasing digital clout in 2021.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Maybe you’ve heard about the hype and are eager to see how an event can drive your brand awareness. Or, your brand has a virtual event idea aimed at increasing revenue, but you are not sure of the right way to do it. Virtual events are one of the best ways to boost revenue and are great for increasing digital clout in 2021.

Virtual

The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2021

CEO Mark Zuckerberg hyped the already popular term in October, when he changed the company’s name to Meta and led viewers through its dizzying vision of the future. From its origins in science fiction, it’s become a catchall for anything that mixes people’s physical and virtual lives.

Second Life

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

Alexandra Samuel from Social Signals starts off 2007 with several announcements related to Second Life - the addition of a virtual worlds manager and an Open house in Second Life later on today. There is also a post titled " Seven Reasons Why You Should Consider Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

Photo from article by Adam Reuters, Reuters Second Life Bureau and used with permission. Then I happen to notice another article on Adam's blog - about an announcement that US Congress will make its Second Life site available to the public Friday, January 5, 2007. Virtual representation of the reflecting pool at the National Mall.

Second Life

The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The first showed off its life-like Codex avatars and an environment for them to exist in, which the company says was rendered in real-time and reacted to real-world objects. According to Meta, this is both a virtual avatar and a virtual environment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

When we asked Bent, who once worked for virtual reality technology company Upload, she said she used to think the metaverse had to be tied to VR technology, specifically the head-mounted display screen. Skeptics think the metaverse gets a lot of hype and isn’t backed by substantial technology or user adoption.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Meanwhile, few spaces were frothier in 2016 than virtual reality, but most VCs who gambled on VR following Facebook’s Oculus acquisition failed to strike it rich. Brianne Kimmel, Work Life Ventures. On the hardware side, the ghost of Magic Leap’s formerly hyped glory still looms large. Jacob Mullins, Shasta Ventures.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Right now, the “metaverse” is mostly an over-hyped branding exercise for a series of virtual worlds, some of which are dependent on VR headsets to access. Critics point out that we’ve basically tried all this technology before, with the failed VR boom of the ‘90s and the rise of spaces like Second Life in the early 2000s.

Marketing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. " Linden: Second Life is a world being built by the people in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. So, I asked, "There has been a lot of criticism about Second Life lately, do you think we're wasting our time and money?

Second Life

The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

At that moment, we began to feel like the modern development stack was utterly incompatible with our life,” the pair explain over email. It is essentially an emulator, to translate the actions of one computer onto another, that can prolong the life of digital data tied to aging hardware and software.

Artist

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

There’s virtual reality and there’s augmented reality — both of these are incredibly interesting. I’m excited about augmented reality because unlike virtual reality which closes the world out, AR allows individuals to be present in the world but hopefully allows an improvement on what’s happening presently.

History

The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Second is the fact that — because Apple silos off virtually all its updates, big or small, to help pad out the “big” iOS release — smaller but useful quality of life improvements often get stuck waiting around months for the fall cycle to line up.

Software

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

” While business has been strong for a while, investors think a tipping point is coming: “Varjo is entering a new phase in scaling its high immersion virtual and mixed reality products across enterprise verticals,” Ted Persson, a partner at EQT Ventures and Varjo board member, told TechCrunch. Image Credits: Varjo.

Software

The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Disappointingly, the iPhone 12 Pro Max still has a 60Hz-refresh-rate display, while virtually every Android phone above $600 is now at 120Hz. 5G in the US is more hype than reality and you can ignore it. Anyway, I cannot stress this enough: 5G in the United States is more hype than reality, and you should not buy a phone because of it.

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VentureBeat

JUNE 13, 2025

Rather than treating security as a final hurdle, which is typical in web app pipelines, continuous adversarial testing needs to be integrated into every phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Team

TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Revolutionizing Retail: Using AI and Data Analytics to Drive Customer Engagement Speaker: AnaMaria Meshkurti, head of marketing, communications and engagement, Geneva Foundation for Tech Innovation Unpacking the Valuation Disparity: How Women Founders Can Bridge the VC Funding Divide Speaker: Brooke Motta, CEO and co-founder, KSOC “Impactpreneurship” (..)

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

But if you can get past all of the social media hype, what’s left is actually a really comfortable, easy-to-clean pair of shoes that are great for the office or a walk in the park. Price: ~$325 Buy on: Filson. Allbirds shoes. Beloved by Silicon Valley startups, Allbirds are basically the internet’s favorite shoes. Fitbit Charge 4.

Gift

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring.

Train

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Ultrahaptics went on to raise $23 million, begin to interest car companies , and later absorb the much-hyped Leap Motion, which, it turns out, was a match made in heaven, by uniting both hand tracking and mid-air haptics. The underlying technology was based on post-graduate research from inventor – and still CEO – Tom Carter.

Fundraising

TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Revolutionizing Retail: Using AI and Data Analytics to Drive Customer Engagement Speaker: AnaMaria Meshkurti, head of marketing, communications and engagement, Geneva Foundation for Tech Innovation Unpacking the Valuation Disparity: How Women Founders Can Bridge the VC Funding Divide Speaker: Brooke Motta, CEO and co-founder, KSOC “Impactpreneurship” (..)

Audience

TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

has the potential to be spent virtually. But for providers who want to deliver care virtually across the country, it’s not as simple as adding a Zoom invite to an annual check-up. Chasing hype is human nature: The tyranny of startup trends. But hype leads to bad decision-making, rushed due diligence and wishful thinking.

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Mashable Tech

JUNE 6, 2025

Get Deal Not many things live up to their hype, but the MacBook Pro is one of them. You’ll also enjoy 10 hours of battery life on a full charge, so there’s no rush to hang up the FaceTime calls you can make thanks to the built-in 720p FaceTime HD camera.

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TechNode

APRIL 23, 2024

Although the virtual Lius nearly 40-minute-long slot made for only a short section of the 11-hour-long e-commerce event, its appearance still suggests that the company sees use of the avatar as a headline- and hype-generating strategy as it looks to boost consumption on its platforms.

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The Verge

AUGUST 2, 2021

Qualcomm has a virtual monopoly on processors in Android devices in the US. The battery life target for the Pixel 6 is still only “all day,” however. I am not going to tell you to get hyped up for the Pixel 6. But I do think it’s very interesting that Google wants to start building up hype. Image: Google.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

We recently wrapped up our first fully virtual and truly global conference,? Blackbaud’s Steph McCluskey broke down all the hype around a lumni participation rates and encouraged us to shift our focus to maximizing our donors instead. bbcon 2020. This year, we welcomed a record-breaking 38,000+ registrants from 70 countries?and

Virtual

The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

I have a virtual assistant that helps with some of my graphics on Instagram, but pretty much everything else has been a one-woman show over here. Oh, no, the deadline was two weeks, but I got hyped up! I was super hyped about that. You don’t have to take life at face value. I have Google Sheets courses as well.

Course

The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

LG has pursued an aggressively bland design language adopted in near-identical fashion by virtually all of its recent phones. Speaking of the cameras, the minimalist “raindrop” design was a much-vaunted part of LG’s pre-launch hype for the Velvet. The Velvet does, however, wring excellent battery life out of the 765.

Review

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Come on, get real already.

Environment

The Verge

JANUARY 16, 2021

She claimed that they’ll deliver excellent battery life as well. if you were willing to sacrifice battery life. Honorable Mentions: Most Hype: Mercedes-Benz Hyperscreen. Su made some big claims. She said that AMD’s chips will beat Intel’s top end in both single- and multi-threaded performance. This award comes with some caveats.

Award

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. As we wade into more metaverse hype, it’s clear that companies like Soul Machines will be filling in customer service gaps across every industry, from games to healthcare.

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