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.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

Whether you are a seasoned event organizer or brand new to the industry, the move away from physical conferences toward virtual or online conferences can feel challenging at best. The rapid spread of the coronavirus may have made virtual events necessary, but the truth is that their implementation has been trending upward for years.

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Greater Giving

JULY 30, 2021

Even with groundbreaking advances in technology and streaming, virtual events still bring an inherent distance between the action and the viewers. Live vs. Silent Auctions in Virtual Events. Not every virtual event requires a live auction to make money. Hybridizing Your Live Auction. TIP: Make it a destination!

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Nationwide stay at home orders and continued concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic have led many businesses and event planners to shift from physical events to a virtual format. . There are many benefits to this move but running a successful virtual conference requires more than just an understanding of video conferencing tools. .

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Already, weve lived through years of AI hype. You can ask the Nvidia-hosted version of DeepSeek virtually anything and get an answer back in seconds. We need to talk about AI. Have you noticed it often just isntwell, very intelligent? Weve watched companies pitch AI as a great tool for writing boring corporate emails.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is our most popular Managing eLearning post every year, and by now we know you want to see the hype curve first. Here it is: Our 2018 eLearning predictions set in terms of Gartner’s hype cycle. We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective. Innovation Trigger.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Revitalize your change-the-world attitude by joining our blockbuster keynote speakers on the Virtual Mainstage. Raiser’s Edge NXT Extensibility Options: What’s Real, What’s Hype? , The post Nonprofit Pro’s Cheat Sheet to bbcon 2022 Virtual first appeared on npENGAGE. Register now for bbcon 2022. Can’t-Miss Marquee Events.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 30, 2019

It is the virtual equivalent of moving cash or a document directly from one safe to another, with each of the safe holders possessing the only key or combination to their individual safes. Despite the hype and complexity, blockchain is a truly disruptive technology and one worth keeping an eye on by all nonprofit technology innovators.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Riot Games has released a series of animated shorts to hype up the upcoming League of Legends World Championship tournament, including one that could be really helpful if you’ve been interested in watching competitive League. Image: Riot Games.

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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.”.

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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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The Verge

DECEMBER 25, 2020

CD Projekt allegedly failed to convey that the game was “virtually unplayable,” the lawsuit states, and instead marketed it as a success with a few issues that would go unnoticed by players. The plaintiff, Andrew Trampe, is looking to include other investors in the suit to turn it into a class action.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The hype surrounding Ampere always meant that getting hold of one at launch wasn’t going to be easy, but the speed at which RTX 3080 cards disappeared from online stores, mostly due to scalpers’ bots, was shocking. Nvidia said it would fight back using methods such as manually reviewing orders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“From the time we started PubNub the vision was what software is needed to power virtual spaces. . “From the time we started PubNub the vision was what software is needed to power virtual spaces. Services that it currently covers include in-app chat, geolocation, virtual events, push notifications and IoT services.

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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.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Virtual events offer a lot of benefits to an event organizer. Virtual attendees can see benefits as well! A virtual event means that those face-to-face interactions will not be possible but that does not mean that you can’t facilitate and encourage networking all the same. . Does your platform allow for virtual business cards?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The cloud refers to a number of different technical components -- from applications to databases to server virtualization to web services. The cloud is the technology direction where everyone is heading and virtually everyone will end up. That functionality is being harnessed by partners to serve charity needs.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Mark Cuban is getting in on the audio and podcasting hype. Fireside, the posting says, is looking to foster “civil intelligent discourse, shared connected experiences, and genuine relationship building virtually” through its broadcasting platform, which will “promote driving social impact through meaningful conversations at scale.”.

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TechSpot

MAY 11, 2020

To make up for it, publishers and studios have been scheduling virtual events to hype up their wares. Because of the coronavirus outbreak, many industry gatherings were canceled or postponed this year, including E3.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The cloud refers to a number of different technical components -- from applications to databases to server virtualization to web services. The cloud is the technology direction where everyone is heading and virtually everyone will end up. That functionality is being harnessed by partners to serve charity needs.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

“We want to figure out what would be the dopest thing to do in that space and start involving the communities we’re activating through this [NFT] in how we should manifest in the virtual world.”. The launch comes after a couple weeks of crypto and metaverse hype from Adidas.

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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. Photo credit should read STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images. HighFidelityXR Invests in @SecondLife.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

Whether you are a seasoned event organizer or brand new to the industry, the move away from physical conferences toward virtual or online conferences can feel challenging at best. The rapid spread of the coronavirus may have made virtual events necessary, but the truth is that their implementation has been trending upward for years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

While Facebook, now Meta, never claimed to have already built the metaverse, the word soon began to be used much more casually to describe nearly any immersive online environment where people interact with one another as virtual selves. Startups began to describe themselves as metaverse companies.

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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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Qgiv

AUGUST 9, 2022

Virtual fundraising events are inexpensive to host while being profitable for many nonprofit organizations. Despite starting as a way to continue events during the pandemic, virtual events still hold a place in many nonprofits’ fundraising strategies because they’re so cost-effective. How do you host a virtual trivia night event?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Nationwide stay-at-home orders and continued concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic have led many businesses and event planners to shift from physical events to a virtual format. . There are many benefits to this move but running a successful virtual conference requires more than just an understanding of video conferencing tools. .

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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2023

Increasingly, those spaces are virtual and constantly evolving. With all the hype growing around this new social media platform, you’re probably asking how it might be useful in your fundraising strategy and whether you should jump on the bandwagon. Modern fundraising depends on meeting your supporters where they are.

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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. On the hardware side, the ghost of Magic Leap’s formerly hyped glory still looms large. Tipatat Chennavasin, The Venture Reality Fund. Gigi Levy-Weiss, NFX.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2020

Facebook’s annual Oculus Connect conference will be held online-only on September 16th — and it’s being rebranded as Facebook Connect, part of the social giant’s gradual assimilation of its virtual reality subsidiary. Like the past few years’ events, it will cover a mix of virtual and augmented reality news from Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

" or what we call "hype" - how does a small nonprofit avoid getting seduced by the hype? Virtual Village???including Having a bad case of work avoidance yesterday - specifically building powerpoint slides and figuring out what to say, I got into an email conversation about Web2.0 and volcom sector adoption.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Intel made its first statement on the metaverse on Tuesday — its first public acknowledgement of that sometimes-nebulous future of computing which promises an always connected virtual world that exists in parallel with our physical one. He says that a 1,000x increase in power is needed over our current collective computing capacity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonable. Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonable. First up, I’m tossing you a discount code to our TechCrunch Early Stage conference, our two-day virtual event for founders, investors and operators. Grab super early-bird passes for less than $100 , to attend our all-virtual event.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Apple is increasingly interested in avatar representations through Memoji, Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be a metaverse company and platforms like Roblox, where users enter a virtual world and buy accessories for their character, have never been more popular. In 2020, Roblox bought Loom.ai and Epic Games acquired HyperSense.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Does the average person want to shop for apparel in virtual reality (VR)? Enter Emperia , an “immersive” retail startup that — to its credit — has already created virtual stores for brands including Bloomingdales, Dior, Ralph Lauren and Lacoste. A virtual store created with Emperia’s platform.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In a statement, the bank said that bitcoin and other virtual currency transactions have disrupted economic and financial order, contributing to a rise in “money laundering, illegal fund-raising, fraud, pyramid schemes, and other illegal and criminal activities.”.

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