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‘Fourth Transformation’ book: Brace for impact

Socialmedia.biz

14, technologist-futurist Robert Scoble held forth for 20 minutes wearing a mixed reality headset, allowing him to interact with the attendees (startup founders, angels and techies) while projecting a presentation behind him. Mixed reality’: Merging the real & virtual worlds. They were shelved 11 months later.

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The Metaverse: What it is and why it matters for brands

Sprout Social

Major companies and startups alike are becoming early adopters, collaborating with metaverse companies to create branded activations and more. These include, but are not limited to, the following: Extended reality (ER) – another umbrella term encompassing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR).

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Blog #3: Global Leaders: On the Innovation Edge

SalesChoice

Rod Furlan , a Singularity University alum who’s the founder of Lucidscape, a company that is building a new kind of massively-distributed 3D simulation engine to power the vast network of interconnected virtual worlds. John Giannandrea , Chief AI Search Officer, Google is known for spearheading the Knowledge Graph Project.

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Key trends for 2012: Digital Disruption gets Physical

The Way of the Web

Consider that the EU has already seen fit to sign a framework for privacy for RFID applications , which power the connectivity. The tech, the stories and applications are a dream for anyone in marketing – if any 3D Printing company wants to chat to me about the possibilities, I’d definitely be interested.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

And they mean it, too, saying "At TCBN we respect your privacy. Think of it as Facebook for bloggers (well, before Facebook was for everyone.) Speaking of Facebook, the site makes it easy to be private - you must have a.edu email address to blog here. No jumping through hoops to keep your information private. Thanks Facebook."

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