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Play Today and Golf in virtual worlds – Australia Metaverse News Australia

Laurel Papworth

Another Sport in the Metaverse – Golf Australia supported by Play Today have an app that is connected to blockchain (Blocto/Flow) and are about to launch into virtual worlds. this is an Australian company. The Play Today metaverse (world) is coming soon. So this is the virtual world. 00:00:46.450]. .

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6 Ways Emerging Technologies Are Set to Change the Use of Social Media

SocMed Sean

Maria writes for a variety of blogs and today she shares her thoughts on how a variety of emerging technologies could potentially impact our use of social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Let us look at the few technologies which will shape social media usage in 2018 and beyond. Augmented Reality.

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3 Key Announcements from Facebook F8 and What Social Media Marketers Need To Know

Ignite Social Media

Imagine if an insurance company could take UGC of a persons real home and add Virtual Reality flooding animation directly into the image. Or imagine a coffee company taking a still photo and layering on VR steam to entice and engage users with still photography. 2) Social Virtual Reality with Facebook Spaces.

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Predictions Revisited: Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies That Might Change Social Media

Ignite Social Media

Six years ago, I published the post “ Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies that Might Change Social Media.” Now more affordable technology exists to make virtual worlds even more immersive than Second Life ever was thanks to products like Oculus Rift. Visit our services page to see how we can help your company do the same.

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Ecommerce in the Metaverse: What’s Going to Change?

Pixlee

It’s akin to a virtual world, where various networks and forms of tech merge to create an accessible, immersive and user-focused experience. . Social Media and Social Proof. The use of social media influencers and other types of social proof are now a key part of numerous companies’ digital marketing campaigns.

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Real investments in virtual worlds continue

The Way of the Web

Don’t forget back in 2004, David Storey paid $26,500 in Entropia , then Jon Jacobs invested $100,000 in a virtual space station in Entropia in November 2005, and of course Anshe Chung became a millionaire via Second Life in 2006. And of course, the rapidly expanding, already massive, social gaming companies such as Zynga.

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

Hootsuite

The company, a pioneer in social media (in a sense the earliest version of the Metaverse itself) recently went through a major rebrand. Facebook is now Meta, and the company has plans to make significant moves in the Metaverse world in the years to come. Is the metaverse the future of social media?