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Meta’s No Good Very Bad Week

07/28/2022
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FILE – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University in Washington, Thursday, Oct. … [+] 17, 2019. Federal regulators, Wednesday, July 27, 2022, took legal action to block F...

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FTC Sues Meta To Block Acquisition Of VR Company Within

07/27/2022
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Topline The Federal Trade Commission sued Meta in federal court Wednesday in an attempt to block the company’s acquisition of virtual reality app creator Within, the latest effort by the FTC to restri...

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Face Tracking Avatars Score Investment, Google AR Glasses Tests, AR Opera Glasses

07/21/2022
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The searing heat of summer may finally be slowing the pace of the immersive tech industry. There was only one funding announcement, for a company that makes avatars for conferencing, not a web3 battle...

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How Consumers Are Responding During Turbulent Times

07/20/2022
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mother handing chard to her daughter getty Retail today is all about the personal relationship. It’s a question of offering the right product and the right experience at the right price in the right p...

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Metaverse Mercenaries, “We Met In VR” To Air On HBO

07/14/2022
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Most people get their news from their smartphone. PEW Research The Clear and Present Danger of TikTok. This must-read from NYU Professor Scott Galloway lays out how the media monster, which he calls “...

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Warby Parker, H&M And CU Break Digital Boundaries

07/07/2022
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Digital transformation is being fast tracked. That’s because customers keep raising their expectations of the shopping journey. And tech is the catalyst behind greater convenience, speed, optimization...

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The Metaverse, And How It Will Revolutionize Everything, By Matthew Ball

07/06/2022
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I read my preview copy of Matthew Ball’s new book about The Metaverse with great relish. It is an instant classic in the burgeoning field of Metverse Studies. Ball has set himself a monumental task. I...

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Mona Metaverse Raises $14.6 Million, Niantic Teams With NBA For AR Game, Immerse Language Learning In VR

06/30/2022
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A wave of layoffs is hitting tech companies. It was reported this week that Unity has laid off hundreds of workers and Niantic cancels projects amidst layoffs. It’s possible this is related to recent ...

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Why Meta Won’t Shut Up, NFT.NYC Parties Like It’s 2021, Tim Cook High On AR

06/23/2022
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An NFT, or nonfungible token, is displayed on a billboard in Time Square, New York, Thursday, Nov. … [+] 4, 2021. Images of NFTs were displayed on billboards throughout Times Square during NFT.N...

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Blippar Partners With Microsoft Teams, Tik Tok To Battle Meta In VR

06/16/2022
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If you’re a reader of this column, you won’t be surprised when I say sometimes things get weird around here. Immersive media can be a box within a box. Like using AR inside a VR experience. This week ...

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AWE 2022 Wrap Up

06/13/2022
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The 13th Augmented World Expo and Conference took place June 1 -3, 2022, in Santa Clara, CA AWE The 13th annual Augmented World Expo (AWE) in Santa Clara wrapped Friday, June 3. The conference and exp...

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Chinese AR Glasses Maker Rokid Spurns ‘Immersive’ Shut-Eye Metaverses

06/06/2022
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A factory worker wears Rokid AR glasses for inspection. Rokid While funding for Chinese AI companies is showing signs of drying up, Rokid has managed to buck that trend. The Hanghou-based tech firm an...

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Tripp Mindfully Raises $11.2 Million, X-Platform Playkins, The Shiba Inu Metaverse

06/05/2022
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Splashy promotion for WWDC 22, which begins on Monday. Apple Will Apple Tease Its New XR Headset at its Worldwide Developer Conference tomorrow? It’s been hotly debated all week. A recent board presen...

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Gen Z Set To Lead Retailers Into The Metaverse

05/14/2022
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Bangkok, Thailand – October 29, 2021: Meta logo is shown on a device screen. Meta is the new … [+] corporate name of Facebook. Social media platform will change to Meta to emphasize its me...

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Google And Meta Preview New AR Prototypes

05/12/2022
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Google showed off its new AR smart glasses concept at its developer conference. Google Google made some big AR announcements at its annual developer conference, Google I/O, starting with upgrades to M...

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BYAC Raises $320 Million For Otherside, Tower 26’s New VR Fund, Kinetix $11 Million Seed For 3D Creation

05/05/2022
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Look what you’ve done you naughty, reckless ape! You’ve crashed Etherium! BAYC Bored Ape Metaverse Frenzy Raises $320 Million, Crashes Ethereum Yuga Labs’ sale of #NFT land in Otherside wi...

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Tiktok Parent ByteDance Follows Meta’s Footsteps Down Risky Path Toward The Metaverse

04/27/2022
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A TikTok logo is seen displayed on a smartphone with a ByteDance logo on the background. Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images What Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is trying to...

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Epic Epic Raise, A Billion Dollar Avatar Shoppe, Remio To Gamify VR Training

04/14/2022
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Epic continues to run the table when it comes to the three Ms: Metaverse, Momentum and Money. Last week they showed off Unreal Engine 5, which is already creating astonishingly photorealistic games. T...

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Nreal AR Raises $60 Million From AliBaba, Mojo Vision AR Contacts Demo, Liv Raises $8.5 For VR Streaming

03/31/2022
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Nreal Light AR Smartglasses. Note the smart phone is the controller. Nreal Nreal Raises $60 Million from Alibaba. The funding will help China’s Nreal AR Smartglasses launch in its home country followi...

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New XR Experiences Shine At SXSW

03/20/2022
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SXSW 22 bravely soldiered on in the face of the Omicron surge to plan this year’s festival. Attendance at the first IRL SXSW since 2019 seemed anemic. Local media is saying sales are down 20%, but Hyp...

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$35 Million To Expand VR Game World Zenith, $9.9 Million For Mediview AR Surgery

03/18/2022
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The hot nightlife ticket was the Sandbox party, where Paris Hilton DJ’d a set. Sandbox SXSW felt half empty this year, like no-one thought they were going to Austin six weeks earlier. Nonetheles...

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Niantic Acquires 8th Wall For WebXR

03/10/2022
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Niantic Acquires 8th Wall. Founded by Google and Facebook engineering alumni Erik Murphy-Chutorian, 8th Wall’s platform enables the kind of browser-based mobile AR that Niantic is using with its new L...

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Sony Unveils Playstation VR2, Meta Backlash, Groped In VR Chat

02/24/2022
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If the press is to be believed, the Metaverse is clearly headed for a “trough of disillusion,” where it will likely languish for some time, perhaps until it actually exists. This has to be...

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New XR Tech At CES

01/06/2022
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CES is more online than off this year, as nearly 200,000 people dwindled to tens of thousands in the physical world. Exuberant dinner parties have given way to room service hamburgers. One CEO told me...