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Virtual Influencers and Social Media Marketing - AI generated

Virtual Influencers and Social Media Marketing - AI generated

Microsoft - VR, metaverse strategy

Microsoft - VR, metaverse strategy

Microsoft, Activision merger - Video Games, metaverse - strategy, business

Microsoft, Activision merger - Video Games, metaverse - strategy, business

Facebook, metaverse, virtual reality, Oculus: business model, strategy

A collection of articles about Facebook, metaverse, virtual reality, Oculus: business model, stra...

Unity - gaming engine

Unity - a gaming engine

VR in Health Care, Medicine, Research

a collection of resources looking at trends in technology with Virtual Reality (VR/AR) in Health

Google - and AR/ VR

a collection about Google - and AR/ VR

VR and AR - headsets, glasses

a collection of resources looking at trends in technology behind AR and VR

Minecraft - AR game

a collection of articles about Minecraft and their VR/ AR game

VR, AR and Travel

a collection of resources about VR, AR and Travel

Creating a VR game - example of "Superhero in Training"

a collection of articles about "Superhero in training", and the creation of a new VR game

VR in Therapy, Psychology and Mental Health

a collection of resources looking at trends in technology with Virtual Reality (VR/AR) in Therapy...

Chatbots and AI in Psychotherapy, Science and Psychology

Articles and videos looking at Chatbots and AI in Psychotherapy, Science and Psychology

Chatbots and AI in medicine and health care

a collection of articles and resources about Chat bots, Artificial intelligence (ai) applications...

Niantic - Pokémon, games

Niantic - Pokémon, games

Magic Leap, and Virtual Reality - AR/VR

a collection of resources looking at Magic Leap, and Virtual Reality - AR/VR

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Article

Generative AI startup 1337 (Leet) is paying users to help create AI-driven influencers | TechCrunch

There’s been a rise of virtual influencers in recent years -- computer-generated personalities who are just as active on social media platforms as ... (2023)


Article

VR: Meta Meets Microsoft – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Meta’s new hardware is more impressive than expected, and the Microsoft partnership makes a lot of sense. The question is if Meta will capture enou... (2022)


Article

Engage, VictoryXR - With Money From Facebook, 10 Colleges Turn Their Campuses into ‘Metaversities’ | EdSurge News

Is education moving to a “tri-brid” model that flows between in-person, online and simulated environments? Ten higher education institutions acr... (2022)


Article

Metaverse Land: What Makes Digital Real Estate Valuable - a16z crypto

The value of digital and metaverse land across virtual worlds and web3 is affected by the activities they uniquely enable and other factors. (2022)


Article

DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Machine-learning generated content has major implications on the Metaverse, because it brings the marginal cost of production to zero. (2022)


Article

Meta – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Facebook’s reorganization into Meta is the ultimate bet on the power of founder control. (2021)


Article

Sports tech startup StatusPRO raises $5.2M; its tech is already used in the NFL - Refresh Miami

StatusPRO, a Miami-based sports technology and gaming company, raised $5.2 million to advance its technology that is already being used by NFL team... (2021)


Article

Mark Zuckerberg is betting Facebook’s future on the metaverse - The Verge

The Facebook CEO talks to Casey Newton about why he is putting his company’s resources toward the "metaverse," a future that imagines an internet t... (2021)


Article

Snap buys another company to make AR shopping a reality - The Verge

Snap has acquired Vertebrae, an AR shopping company that helps brands turn their goods into 3D assets, which could help Snapchat become an augmente... (2021)


Article

Snap to launch a new Creator Marketplace this month, initially focused on Lens Creators – TechCrunch

Snap on Wednesday announced its plan to soon launch a Creator Marketplace, which will make it easier for businesses to find and partner with Snapch... (2021)


Article

Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit US Army with 120,000 AR headsets – TechCrunch

The killer use case for AR/VR might just be warfare. Today, Microsoft announced that it has received a contract to outfit the United States Army wi... (2021)


Article

Codename: Urban Legends is a taste of what Niantic thinks 5G could do for AR gaming - The Verge

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has unveiled Codename: Urban Legends. It’s a multiplayer demo that it hopes shows off the kinds of experiences only 5G... (2021)


Article

The Roblox Microverse – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Roblox is something new and interesting that abstracts away the platforms underneath it. (2021)


Article

Could VR Be the Missing Piece in Meaningful Language Instruction? | EdSurge News

In the early ’80s—when Euan Bonner was just five or so—he and his dad would tinker with their Commodore 64, copying code from magazines into the PC... (2021)


Article

Google pulls the plug on Expeditions VR app, migrates tours to Arts & Culture

Google today announced that it is ending support for Expeditions. The VR app will also be pulled from its own Play Store and Apple’s App Store in J... (2020)


Article

A Single Way to Log Into Oculus and Unlock Social Features | Oculus

Today, we’re announcing some important updates to how people log into Oculus devices, while still keeping their VR profile. Starting in October 202... (2020)


Article

What’s left of Magic Leap?

Magic Leap bet big on holograms — and paid the price Magic Leap’s future is unclear as it attempts to reinvent itself as an enterprise mixed rea... (2020)


Article

I Escaped Our Weird Reality with Airbnb Online Experiences

I Tried Airbnb's Zaniest Online Experiences Could the company's latest play to own the experience economy transport me virtually around the worl... (2020)


Article

With new raise, Unity could nearly double valuation to $6 billion

Unity Technologies, the company behind one of the world’s most popular game engines, could nearly double its reported valuation in a new round of f... (2020)


Article

Unity snaps up Vancouver-based studio building AR/VR tech

Unity announced today that they are acquiring Finger Food Advanced Technology Group, a Vancouver-based studio best known for their AR/VR services. ... (2020)


Article

Magic Leap reportedly slashes 1,000 jobs and steps away from consumer plans

Magic Leap laid off a “number of employees” this morning and announced they were backing away from their consumer ambitions to focus more heavily o... (2020)


Article

Tour The World Without Leaving Home With Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture is keeping us connected to the world around us during this period of self-isolation, offering virtual tours to muesums and pa... (2020)


Article

12 Museums From Around the World That You Can Visit Virtually

Google Arts & Culture teamed up with over 500 museums and galleries around the world to bring anyone and everyone virtual tours and online exhi... (2020)


Article

Desperate to exit, a $10B price tag for Magic Leap is crazy

Augmented reality headset maker Magic Leap has struggled with the laws of physics and failed to get to market. Now it’s seeking an acquirer, but ta... (2020)


Article

After AI, Fashion and Shopping Will Never Be the Same

Put on your VR headset and have a conversation with your AI. “It’s time to buy a dress for tomorrow’s event” is all you have to say. (2019)


Article

An 'explosion of ideas' lays the foundation for the ‘Magicverse’ - University of Miami (2020)

The University of Miami is supporting 24 proposals for Magic Leap’s mixed reality technology, which is destined to transform teaching, learning, re... (2020)


Article

Magic Leap is going up against Microsoft and Google with its AR headset for businesses

Like others in the challenging mixed reality space, Magic Leap is hoping sales to corporations will sustain it until the consumer market matures. (2019)


Article

Facebook sells off Oculus Medium to Adobe – TechCrunch

Facebook is selling Oculus Medium — a 3D virtual reality sculpting tool for creatives — to Adobe. The team was an expensive effort for Oculus and i... (2019)


Article

Report: Magic Leap wanted to sell 100,000 headsets. It sold 6,000 (2019)

Womp womp. It looks like Magic Leap's sales numbers are just as disappointing as their early demos. The much-hyped augmented reality startup... (2019)


Article

Google announces a new $999 Glass augmented reality headset - The Verge

Google’s Glass Enterprise Edition augmented reality headset, which is built for industrial and professional use, is getting a $999 second edition w... (2019)


Video

Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming

With students learning in more places and different ways than we have ever seen, the pace of change in education is dizzying. Can this progress nar... (2023)


Video

Metaverse competition - Facebook vs. Microsoft

Metaverse competition - Facebook vs. Microsoft (2022)


Video

Minecraft Earth: AR Game - Official Reveal Trailer

In this first-ever look at Minecraft Earth, discover how the reality-bending, world-blending abilities of AR bring blocks to life! Armed with just ... (2019)


Video

Jessica Brillhart, Immersive Director, on VR and AR

Jessica Brillhart - https://twitter.com/brillhart - is the founder of Vrai Pictures - https://www.vrai.pictures/ They’re an independent immersive c... (2018)


Video

10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now) | a16z

a16z talk with a look at trends in technologies: “The personal computer S-curve gave us 1.5 billion PCs and 3 billion people online, and now the s... (2017)


Podcast

How AI is Augmenting Therapy - WSJ podcast The Future of Everything

Millions of people suffering from mental health issues are left untreated and undiagnosed. In this episode, we meet the psychologists and scientist... (2018)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: When Is VR’s iPhone Moment? – Andreessen Horowitz

“There was a lot of hype about VR ad then it seemed to go pretty quiet. So where are we right now? Bigscreen founder Darshan Shankar and a16z gener... (2018)


Website

Mursion - Immersive VR Learning Simulations With Human-Powered AI

Mursion provides immersive simulated practice for essential skills in the workplace powered by humans and assisted by AIMursion puts learners in 1:... (2023)


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5 Videos
2 Podcasts
1 Websites
25 Chunks