Author: Alvin Manalac
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Odette Lunettes x Tom Boonen NFT’s
Overview Project synopsisAll good things come in threes. In this case we have sports, fashion and technology. Or better even: Tom Boonen, world class cyclist, Odette Lunettes modern eyewear brand and yondr. An ambitious trio that wanted to explore the possibilities of NFTs, virtual fashion and high-level collaborations. Odette Lunettes and Tom Boonen launched three…
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How to Get Fit in the Metaverse
By Hannah Thompson The metaverse is the marketing industry’s current favorite repository of dreams, as brands and their agencies alike continue to hope that it will bring transformative possibilities in every sector. For The Drum’s Sports Marketing Deep Dive, Hannah Thompson, group media director at agency Tug, tells us that sport is no different: hopes of…
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Dmitry Kornilov
Check out these links if you want to dig deeper after listening to the episode. https://ffface.me Follow us on Social Media: Dmitry Kornilov: LinkedIn / Twitter Tyler Gates: LinkedIn / Twitter Sophia Moshasha: LinkedIn / Twitter VRARA DC: LinkedIn / Twitter Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you can get…
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Sports Marketing in the Metaverse
By Jamie Carter Immersive worlds will get you moving What’s going to be the killer app for the metaverse? Video calling, virtual meetings and gaming are bound to feature, but there’s another more unexpected activity that just may help give some momentum to the complicated concept of interconnected and virtual communities – virtual workouts.
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Virtual Sports Parallel Universe Coming Soon
By Rick Burton I’ve taught sport management classes for the last 13 years, and while I’ve engaged with thousands of highly talented students, it’s rare when I think I’ve met a unicorn. A young Beethoven sitting down at his first piano. Tiger Woods crushing it pre-Stanford and the PGA. Breanna Stewart arriving at UConn and…
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ALTstage: Leave the Screen Behind!
Transforming screens into stages with AR What’s ALTstage AR App? ALTstage is the world’s first technology that brings AR together with live events and video content. It came to life using Azure Kinect hardware and volumetric videos. Its main goal is to let the watchers enjoy the three-dimensional views of performers, whether at home or…
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Soft Skills Development
Lifelike. Foretell Reality offers distinct environments and tools to realistically stimulate various business and entrepreneurial situations including networking with other professionals, negotiating with company executives and pitching a business idea, to potential investors.
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VR Therapy And Support
Immersive. Virtual Reality (VR) provides a tangible feeling of group presence through lifelike avatars that can gesture, direct their gaze, and manipulate and pass objects. Distraction free environments focus attention and increase engagement and particpation.
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Entrepreneurs’ Organization Summit 2020
Overview Project synopsisYou’ve heard it a thousand times before: the pandemic forced us into a new normal. In many cases, that wasn’t really an upgrade. In the case of EO it most definitely was. EO is a high-class networking organisation that connects top entrepreneurs worldwide. They have a thing for cross-border innovation and look for…
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Nils Pihl (Part 2)
Check out these links if you want to dig deeper after listening to the episode. https://www.thearshow.com/podcast/134-nils-pihl https://anchor.fm/block-party/episodes/Why-Augmented-Reality-will-Dominate-the-Metaverse-Interview-w-CEO–Founder-Nils-Pihl-of-Auki-Labs-e1fi347 https://auki.medium.com/the-metaverse-the-mindless-march-towards-dystopia-98dbbee4680e Follow us on Social Media: Nils Pihl: LinkedIn / Twitter Tyler Gates: LinkedIn / Twitter Sophia Moshasha: LinkedIn / Twitter VRARA DC: LinkedIn / Twitter Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you…
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Metaverse is Revolutionary for People with Disabilities
By Vanja Garaj, John Dudley, and Per Ola Kristensson The invention of the world wide web in 1989 eventually brought about life-changing tools for everyone who can access it. Some of these tools, such as online banking, shopping and communication, have vastly improved the accessibility of daily life for people with disabilities, as well as older people.
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Metaverse Fashion Week Digital Only Concepts
By Mark Lean Fashion talk with a difference: how the world’s premier digital couture house is planning the industry’s evolution. As one of the world’s foremost digital-only fashion brands, Amsterdam-based The Fabricant appears in Decentraland’s Metaverse Fashion Week (MVFW) as part of the Cash Labs Gallery. Brytehall speaks with Michaela Larosse, The Fabricant’s head of content and strategy, about how it’s…
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Kami, Virtual Influencer with Down’s Syndrome
Down Syndrome International (DSi) has teamed up with creative agency Forsman & Bodenfors (F&B) and global digital modelling agency The Diigitals to create the world’s first virtual influencer with Down syndrome. Despite being a more connected society, the digital world is yet to fully embrace diversity. Avatars that allow us to choose an “ideal” face…
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LMVH Creates Virtual Fashion Ambassador
By Dominique Muret LVMH‘s virtual ambassador has feminine features and is naturally pretty. Her freckles and sun-kissed face give her a youthful glow and her light-colored eyes and white streaks in her hair give her a distinguished look. Modeled in 3D by Altava, a start-up finalist for the LVMH Innovation Award 2021, the virtual avatar named Livi…
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Nils Pihl (Part 1)
Check out these links if you want to dig deeper after listening to the episode. https://www.thearshow.com/podcast/134-nils-pihl https://anchor.fm/block-party/episodes/Why-Augmented-Reality-will-Dominate-the-Metaverse-Interview-w-CEO–Founder-Nils-Pihl-of-Auki-Labs-e1fi347 https://auki.medium.com/the-metaverse-the-mindless-march-towards-dystopia-98dbbee4680e Follow us on Social Media: Nils Pihl: LinkedIn / Twitter Tyler Gates: LinkedIn / Twitter Sophia Moshasha: LinkedIn / Twitter VRARA DC: LinkedIn / Twitter Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVRARA.com for more information about how you…
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Influencer Marketing in the Metaverse
By Kati Chitrakorn A broad range of fashion brands, including Prada, Puma and Yoox, are creating avatars to stand alongside the likes of Shudu and Lil Miquela. Their common goal? To be purpose-driven and community-led.
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Uniten Virtual Geo-Hazards Monitoring
Predicting future changes with Virtalis GeoVisionary for Uniten GeoVisionary is part of Malaysia’s virtual geo-hazards monitoring and asset management system Drawing on the advantages of GeoVisionary software and Virtual Reality (VR) technology, 30 UNITEN researchers from different fields, led by UNITEN’s Institute of Energy Infrastructure’s Director, Assoc. Prof. Dr Rohayu Che Omar, have developed a…
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Metaverse Turns Real Models into Digital Avatars
By Madeleine Schulz Los Angeles modelling agency Photogenics is launching an avatar division, giving brands talent to work with in the metaverse that’s a departure from past iterations of digital-only personalities. All avatars are based on models currently signed to the agency, and act as their “alternate egos” for the metaverse.
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Audio Trip
2022 AUGGIE AWARD WINNER for Best in Indie Creator(s) Audio Trip is a virtual reality rhythm dance game developed by Kinemotik Studios and published by Andromeda Entertainment.
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Enter the Datingverse
CHALLENGE Grace Lee sought to expand her in-person date coaching service “A Good First Date” by integrating VR technology. VR compliments Lee’s service by addressing some inherent challenges to in-person date coaching.