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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. McDonald’s is making its way into the metaverse by registering for 10 trademarks in the virtual space. What is the metaverse? Yes, really.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #347

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Meanwhile, the interstellar liners have paper tickets, that you queue up to buy.'" (Alistair for Mitch). Robot Cars Can Teach Themselves How to Drive in Virtual Worlds - SingularityHub. Put these cars into virtual worlds and let them run in there until they get it right. Documentary Now! Mitch for Alistair).

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

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Collectibles buy an account and get special badges like the Pro badge above. 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.

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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. But the biggest personal thing for me is that I’ve been talking about gaming, virtual worlds and virtual economies to people for years, and my dad never really got what the hell I was talking about.

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Freemium Revenues: Social Media Business Podcast

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Virtual worlds that use Freemium models continue to grow – for example, Second Life every month increases it’s number of concurrent users, number of transactions, number of Lindex (Linden Dollars to US dollars) exchanges. Freemium and TV Film Newspapers. And 9,000 buy the magazine at newsagencies.

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Her latest posts include Charitable Gift Ideas for the Holidays , Sony Virtual World Free Online Games for Teens and Tweens , and Tips for Teens by Teen Author in Brain Snacks for Teens on the Go. Follow her @jenwag57 on Twitter. Jessica Gottlieb. Jessica is a mom, writer, thoughtful consumer, and speaker.

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‘Fourth Transformation’ book: Brace for impact

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And the first prototype devices are quickly evolving into mainstream units that you might be able to snag at Best Buy or Amazon two years from now. Mixed reality’: Merging the real & virtual worlds. Apple has 600 developers working on this and plans a major release in late 2017 or beyond.

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