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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. The Play Today metaverse (world) is coming soon. So this is the virtual world. Other Golf in virtual space [link].

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Metaverse and Korean Government – Strategy and Budget and Education

Laurel Papworth

for Metaverse including startups, Education (Nurturing/Mentoring) and Commerce. There’s a special fund for startups to work within the Metaverse that has around $33 million USD brought in from the private sector and the government is putting in around $60 million USD dollars from their own kitty.

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Meet Yourself in the Metaverse – 3D Facial Capture Avatars

Laurel Papworth

And one of the topics on there was about creating a 3D representation of your face and putting it into virtual space. It’s a UK startup, has seven phones and I think four lights set up in the round to take and scan images of your face so that they can go into a 3D reality, 3D virtual reality. 00:00:00.160]. 00:02:18.220].

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Family Village – A Facebook Game I Can Get Addicted To

Stay N' Alive

I’ve always avoided Facebook games such as Farmville, now Cityville, and other “Virtual Worlds&# that seem to suck up your time while annoying your friends via your news feed. I normally don’t subscribe to virtual world type games, but Family Village is one I can feel proud I’m addicted to.

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Revenue: Social media games and virtual goods 2010

Laurel Papworth

Now it’s easier… From GamesBeat/VentureBeat : Virtual goods are expected to hit $1.6 Monetizing: Virtual Goods venture capital 2009 (2). Tags: Monetization Money Online Communities revenue social media social networks virtual world farmville social games virtual goods zynga. Related posts.

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Family Village - A Facebook Game I Can Get Addicted To

Stay N' Alive

I've always avoided Facebook games such as Farmville, now Cityville, and other "Virtual Worlds" that seem to suck up your time while annoying your friends via your news feed. I normally don't subscribe to virtual world type games, but Family Village is one I can feel proud I'm addicted to.

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If you love good ideas, let them go…

The Way of the Web

At the same time, I also saw news of startup funding for a company which aggregates affiliate offers, but then automatically selects the one with the lowest price for you to recommend to people. Image courtesy annais on Flickr (CC Licence). But it’s about ideas, and one of the things I’ve realised over the last decade.

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