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Facebook is Meta, But Does It Really Matter?

Jon Loomer

Meta is the umbrella over Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. They’re betting everything on the “Metaverse” — a world where Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and social experiences collide. Our lives move into the virtual world. Let’s discuss… The Re-Brand.

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Automotive Companies in the Metaverse – NFTs and Saraswati

Laurel Papworth

Not sure where they are at now except Ferrari are showing up in virtual worlds like Roblox sans NFTs. 00:00:17.810] Let me just hop in the old Transit and let’s see what Silk Charm is up to in her Virtual World, I’ll list: the use cases for web3 and Metaverse from showrooms through to virtual 3D development labs and others.

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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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The Hidden Environmental Costs of Downsizing an Office: What We Learned

Hootsuite

In 2020, Hootsuite swapped our bustling collection of global offices for the virtual world (like many of you). Stay in touch with us on Instagram to learn more about our corporate social responsibility initiatives. Follow Us on Instagram. How you can help your employer reduce its carbon footprint. Try it for Free.

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Tuvalu in the Metaverse – Ozymandias – Climate Change

Laurel Papworth

The Eternity Generation (every moment from cradle to grave documented on Instagram for future generations to fall over) becomes the Eternity Culture. But how awesome would it be to dress up your avatar and swan around a Bridgerton style environment in a 3D, virtual world or augmented world? Ozymandias would approve!

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Metaverse – The End of Reality and the Big Picture plus Sunyata

Laurel Papworth

Is it possible that either the NFT or the digital Twin, where you have both the real world item and the online item, will mean that we release our hold on resource hogging physical products and start to chase more of the online digital version of reality? So I would ask with Sunyata that we consider how much of the physical world do we.

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

Hootsuite

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. It’s the parent company (under which Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, among others, are operated) changed its name to Meta. The reason?