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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

TechCrunch

” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project. ” Active Replica was founded in 2020 by Jacob Ervin and Valerian Denis. Adhering to web standards, Hubs supports all the usual headsets and goggles (e.g.

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3 ways to beat the competition and stay ahead in the Media and Entertainment industry

Trigent

The media and entertainment sector saw quite a few changes with respect to content development, aggregation, and delivery as major players in the business adopted new strategies and agile approaches to leverage the changing consumer demands. The global OTT market size that stood at $171B in 2020 is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 29.4%

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6 Tech Trends that will reshape Media & Entertainment in 2021

Trigent

By 2024, Over-the-top (OTT) media revenue is predicted to touch $158.84B that’s more than double the $67.8B Here’s our take on 6 technology trends that will influence the media and entertainment world this year. Adoption was less and the price of AR/VR devices was pretty high. revenue that was generated in 2018.

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Throwback To Our Top 7 INNOVATIVE Hackathons

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In 2020 when covid-19 was at its peak, HackerEarth in collaboration with IIMB launched the HackCOVID hackathon. Pride Hackathon 2020. Social Good: Employment Opportunities – Enable the transgender community to broaden the scope of employment opportunities (For example – by removing bias from the interview).

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The Metaverse Is Not a Place

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Seen through the lens of the real estate metaphor, the metaverse becomes a natural successor not just to Second Life but to the World Wide Web and to social media feeds, which can be thought of as a set of places (sites) to visit. My personal metaverse prototype moment does not involve VR at all, but Zoom.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Here’s a glimpse at Facebook’s VR glasses. They are still proof-of-concept, but this prototype (along with Apple’s rumored product, and Google’s continued interest ) means that nobody can count VR out. TikTok , the social media site for short videos, has over 800 million active users. Technology and Society.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

TechCrunch

Founded: 2020. What it says it does: Unai is developing a VR headset and virtual world that aims to help people feel connected to one another in the virtual world. Promises include: Unai wants to make VR interactions look, feel and sound like they do in real life. Our thoughts: Faster VPN options? Sounds good to us. GrowthBook.