Rooom raises $7M for multifaceted 3D virtual events platform
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Rooom has raised $7 million to take 3D virtual events a step closer to the metaverse -- or at least a lot more entertaining than Zoom calls. Read More.
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Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Rooom has raised $7 million to take 3D virtual events a step closer to the metaverse -- or at least a lot more entertaining than Zoom calls. Read More.
Venture Beast
JUNE 22, 2021
Social meeting space Breakroom has integrated High Fidelity's 3D audio into its virtual world for social and business events. Read More.
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Computerworld Vertical IT
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Microsoft Teams users will soon be able to create their own animated avatars to meet with colleagues in 3D virtual environments, thanks to an upcoming integration of the company's mixed reality platform, Mesh. Both are currently in preview.) To read this article in full, please click here
The Verge
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
In some sense, they’re 2D today, and the question is can you now take that to a full 3D world, and we absolutely plan to do so.”. Transforming Minecraft , Halo , and Flight Sim into full 3D worlds is an ambitious project, particularly if these environments will allow players to explore them together side by side with VR or AR headsets.
Venture Beast
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Genies is expanding its focus from celebrities to everyday consumers with its 3D avatars for social apps from the likes of Giphy and Gucci. Read More.
Venture Beast
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Spatial has unveiled its social augmented reality workspace on mobile, allowing people to log into its 3D experiences from smartphones. Read More.
Kitaboo
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Among many such methods, one important method showing immense potential is virtual reality technology. Virtual reality technology makes use of headset devices to impart immersive educational experiences through a 360-degree lens. For this very reason, the virtual reality market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 30.7%
Dataconomy
AUGUST 6, 2024
In the world of technology, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) have emerged as transformative technologies ready to revolutionize numerous industries. Equipped with cameras, sensors, and displays, AR applications integrate virtual elements into users’ surroundings to enhance various fields.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 18, 2022
Two years ago, the consulting giant started shipping many of its recruits virtual reality headsets instead. At the same time, it created a virtual world or “metaverse” that enables employees to socialize, form teams, conduct training, and collaborate. “We More business applications are on the way. Next step: the office.
Venture Beast
JANUARY 12, 2021
One of the world's top map and location platform companies is offering access to 75 cities worth of 3D models, accurate to a sub-meter level. Read More.
The Verge
APRIL 11, 2022
Meta is testing new features to let creators make money within Horizon Worlds, the company’s social metaverse platform for Quest VR headsets that is soon coming to mobile phones and possibly game consoles. Roblox has built a huge business from this model, while Rec Room is growing quickly and prioritizing creator monetization as well.
TechSpot
OCTOBER 28, 2021
In announcing the name change, the company went all-in on selling the idea of the metaverse, a virtual 3D space that combines virtual reality and augmented reality technology. Zuckerberg during the livestream announcement hailed it as the next step in online communication after writing text on websites, and social media.
GeekWire
MARCH 23, 2021
We are one of many, and we’re excited to add a consumer social company to that mix.” When GeekWire visited the company’s office and tested Rec Room in 2017, the startup was focused on virtual reality. Year-over-year revenue growth of 566% was fueled in part by the pandemic and trends toward social gatherings online.
The Verge
OCTOBER 4, 2021
It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. 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.
Computerworld Vertical IT
MAY 31, 2023
The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. Sales of VR and AR headsets have fallen short of expectations. To read this article in full, please click here
The Verge
AUGUST 28, 2020
The company has been working on its multiplayer virtual reality social space, Horizon, for a while now, which is comparable in concept if not scope to the fantastical VR world of Ready Player One. social network? Horizon is interesting in and of itself as a big experiment into the future of online socialization.
Vox
DECEMBER 19, 2022
In a memo to Meta’s staff also posted on social media, one of Meta’s top executives, CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, reflected on Monday about the difficult moment the company is in. But Meta still needs to keep making money by growing its main business: selling ads on social media.
GeekWire
JUNE 6, 2023
Apple Photos) Entrepreneurs developing augmented and virtual reality apps and games are optimistic that Apple’s new headset will turbocharge adoption of the technology, much like the iPhone did for mobile computing in 2007. ” Forest Gibson , co-founder of Pluto VR “It’s all about virtual screens.
The Verge
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Social deception game Among Us is getting a virtual reality adaptation. The VR version of Among Us is a first-person 3D experience instead of a third-person 2D one, but it retains the “core mechanics” of developer Innersloth’s original multiplayer game. Innersloth. Task List: ?
The Verge
MAY 17, 2021
Epic, which filed the case late last week , claims it’s “no coincidence” that Nreal’s name “looks and sounds virtually identical” to Unreal’s branding. The China-based Nreal makes an augmented reality headset known as the Nreal Light, which projects 3D objects into real space, and it’s developed a demo game called Nreal Tower.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 29, 2022
Jordi Muñoz became President of prominent early drone company 3D Robotics at age 22, having made himself a world-leading expert in drone design and manufacturing, teaching himself through the universe of resources available through the web and his own experiments.
The Verge
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Spatial, an early player in virtual reality workroom apps, is changing its focus to virtual art galleries showcasing non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. Spatial’s original pitch was a virtual workspace where people could don VR headsets, talk to co-workers in virtual meetings, and collaborate by examining virtual items.
Vox
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company will be taking a major step to making its virtual reality metaverse avatars more lifelike: by giving them legs. But seriously, legs are hard, which is why other virtual reality systems don’t have them either.”. I know you’ve been waiting for this. Courtesy/Meta.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 31, 2010
Melcrum recently released a report on How to use social media to solve critical communication issues , with as usual some great case studies and many practical insights. I was asked to write the closing section in the report, on The Future of Social Media and Internal Communications. Email use will be eroded by social media.
Kitaboo
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Educational content has evolved beyond textbooks to include interactive multimedia elements like videos, simulations, animations, and virtual reality to enhance engagement and understanding. Various digital interactive tools enable real-time virtual classrooms, video lectures, and collaborative discussions among students and educators.
The Verge
JULY 9, 2020
The investment lets the two companies “broaden their collaboration across Sony’s leading portfolio of entertainment assets and technology, and Epic’s social entertainment platform and digital ecosystem to create unique experiences for consumers and creators,” according to a press release.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
If you’re skeptical about dipping your enterprise’s virtual toes into a metaverse, rightfully so. While some investors and developers pulled back , others kept forging ahead, developing chips for augmented and virtual reality, trialing advertising through augmented reality, and “stockpiling gaming content,” according to CBInsights.
GeekWire
JANUARY 5, 2021
Investors are putting more fuel behind Omnivor , a Seattle startup gaining traction with its 3D holographic content media production platform. It also rolled out Live Holographic Telepresence, a separate product aimed at companies hosting virtual meetings, working in tandem with T-Mobile and its 5G network capabilities.
Vox
OCTOBER 28, 2021
The company is trying to refocus away from social media and toward building what it calls the metaverse. From now on, we’re going to be metaverse first, not Facebook first,” Zuckerberg said at Facebook Connect, the company’s virtual and augmented reality developer conference. “As Facebook announced its new name, Meta, on October 28.
GeekWire
JANUARY 30, 2023
The tool they showcased, called LifeAt Spaces , was seen and shared millions of times on various social media platforms. ” (LifeAt screenshot) LifeAt users choose from a selection of “spaces” to set as their virtual backdrop, ranging from a coffee shop to a simulated Zoom call with Zac Efron.
Venture Beast
JANUARY 7, 2022
Creating a unified metaverse, rather than siloed 3D worlds for gaming, might come first from attempts to create an enterprise metaverse. Read More.
The Verge
AUGUST 28, 2020
“I think the key for the post-corona era is how real we can feel in a virtual world.” I recently found myself on a Friday night after hours at teamLab Planets , a popular tourist spot in Tokyo, watching rock star Miyavi working on his latest “Miyavi Virtual” project. Miyavi Virtual 3.0 He sometimes talks in the third person.)
Kitaboo
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
It is a virtual library consisting of interactive learning nuggets which keeps students engaged in the content. Social Media for Collaborative Learning: One cannot ignore the importance of social media. Students usually spend a lot of time on social media. Simulation provides a virtual outlook of a real-life situation.
Galido
OCTOBER 30, 2019
They can entertain customers, automatically respond to social media messages, make appointments, and order food. Virtual Reality. Businesses can use virtual reality for a variety of purposes, but one of the big ways that they can utilize VR is in training employees. 3D Printing. The Internet of Things.
Dataconomy
DECEMBER 29, 2023
In stark contrast to human influencers who gain popularity through real-life experiences, talents, or expertise, AI influencers are entirely synthetic characters designed to engage audiences on social media platforms. Social media presence: AI influencers are typically active on various social media platforms, just like human influencers.
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
In the wake of the Mozilla layoffs, the company behind the famous browser has showed revisions to its product strategy ( Image credit ) Additionally, Mozilla has decided to discontinue Hubs, its 3D virtual environment introduced in 2018, and reduce its commitment to the mozilla.social Mastodon instance.
The Verge
AUGUST 4, 2021
Facebook Reality Labs wants to help people see your eyes while you’re in virtual reality — even if the results sit somewhere between mildly unsettling and nightmarish. It’s useful for quickly dropping out of VR, and it can also enable a form of augmented reality by adding virtual objects to the camera feed. Facebook Reality Labs.
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
At its virtual Ignite 2021 conference Tuesday morning, the company announced a new product called Mesh for Teams, which allows workers to take the form of avatars and navigate virtual work environments. Prototypes of products could even be laid out on a virtual table. Microsoft Image).
Kitaboo
DECEMBER 15, 2023
In this blog, we will explore the spectrum of interactive content formats, from augmented reality books to interactive social media content, unveiling the potential of each format in captivating modern audiences. Characters come to life, 3D models emerge, and hidden layers of the narrative are unveiled. Table of Contents I.
The Verge
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Facebook’s decision won’t stop independent companies like Clearview AI — which built huge image databases by scraping photos from social networks, including Facebook — from using facial recognition algorithms trained with that data.
Cloud Musings
OCTOBER 21, 2014
3D Printing - Worldwide shipments of 3D printers are expected to grow 98 percent in 2015, followed by a doubling of unit shipments in 2016. 3D printing will reach a tipping point over the next three years as the market for relatively low-cost 3D printing devices continues to grow rapidly and industrial use expands significantly.
Dataconomy
DECEMBER 15, 2023
The drama unfolded on social media platforms, with a Reddit thread at the epicenter, swiftly removed by moderators. OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, stepped onto the virtual stage to address the chatter. as a cutting-edge model with multi-model capabilities spanning language, audio, vision, video, and 3D. But the plot thickened.
Vox
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, released its long-awaited new virtual reality headset on Tuesday during Meta Connect, its annual developer conference. Many of these professionals use 3D modeling in their day-to-day jobs that could justify the headset’s cost. Courtesy of Meta. It will cost you.
Vox
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Or will a small group of us end up playing video games in a completely — and probably lonely — virtual world? Like the Meta Quest, the new Apple headset can do fully immersive virtual reality, but it’s also capable of combining virtual elements with images of the real world, kind of like the Google Glass concept did.
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