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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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Automotive Companies in the Metaverse – NFTs and Saraswati

Laurel Papworth

List of Reasons for Car Companies to use Web3 & be in The Metaverse. R&D Digital Twin Factories (development and CAD in virtual space). Virtual Showrooms for customers to view solely online sales. Not sure where they are at now except Ferrari are showing up in virtual worlds like Roblox sans NFTs.

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Facebook is Meta, But Does It Really Matter?

Jon Loomer

The Facebook parent company has been re-branded as Meta to reflect its future focus on the “Metaverse” (primarily AR and VR experiences). The Facebook parent company is being replaced by Meta. In the past, the focus of the “Facebook” parent company has been the Facebook app. Virtual meetings.

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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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Illuvium and the Metaverse #Australia

Laurel Papworth

Kieran Warwick and brothers create Illiuvium with Illuvials battle pets, Illuvitars avatars and virtual worlds in the Metaverse. Metaverse means moving between worlds. It’s just a virtual world or just a virtual game or just an AR if it doesn’t have the traversable part.

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

SocMed Sean

The question is whether social networks can bring the interactive features of their networks and overcome the isolation that virtual reality currently creates. This is the middle zone between our real and virtual worlds and superimposes computer-generated images (that are often taken from a virtual world) on to our real world.

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Forget Traditional, Think Internet-ional: Why Starting Business Online Is Good

The Realtime Report

When we take into consideration the ground-breaking technological advancements that shift our world in the fifth gear, we inevitably get to the point where discussing a company that solely operates online is completely ordinary. Years ago, the idea of doing business in a virtual world was inconceivable.