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What Is The Metaverse (and Why Should You Care)?

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The Metaverse is a virtual world in which users, businesses, and digital platforms can exist and interact. It includes everything from virtual social and gaming platforms (e.g. Films like Tron and Ready Player One have long envisioned digital worlds that hold just as much weight as real ones. What is the metaverse?

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Tuvalu in the Metaverse – Ozymandias – Climate Change

Laurel Papworth

So if we were to compare Tuvalu, the nation, to a virtual land in a virtual world, for me, historically, it means that we can create more worlds that are based on culture and history and language and things like that. [00:03:34.820]. 00:03:34.820]. Although I do like me some Bridgerton.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Virtual Real Estate a tough one again if you are not a virtual world like Second Life but how about a special forum for payment. Real World Events Music labels, film studios pay MySpace for record launches and Secret Shows. Twitter helps to promote the “room&#. Commercial Clients pay Twitter .

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The magical power of great writing and insight

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And as someone with a young child and a corresponding diet of animated films, this also really stood out. Again, not necessarily something that was inconceivable in the 50s, but something that is hitting us now with the likes of Avatar, or the massive leaps in videogame cinematics over the last 10-20 years.

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Facebook Credit: Zuckerberg next Treasurer of the Internet App2User

Laurel Papworth

VIRTUAL GOODS: don’t have to be virtual cows in Farmville or magic swords in World of Warcraft. They can be cds/dvds, software for your office, downloadable whitepapers and books on an iPad, ringtones, music/videos on the iTunes store, films on DVD, images like backgrounds and avatars. Related posts.

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