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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

TechCrunch

Does the average person want to shop for apparel in virtual reality (VR)? But not everyone agrees — particularly those who hope to build a business out of VR retail. ” Emperia’s platform offers tools brands can use to create virtual experiences, including stores in VR. Perhaps so.

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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

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” 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. “We will benefit from their unique experience and ability to create amazing experiences that help organizations use virtual spaces to drive impact. .

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Daily Crunch: Meta’s upcoming VR headset will track eye movements and capture facial expressions

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Hackers at the door : DoorDash is among the organizations affected by the Twilio hackers, Carly writes. Going forward, the app is going to focus on a post-COVID world of errands and travel. First Spaces, not podcasts : It’s official — Twitter is integrating podcasts into its platform. The feature will live under the Spaces tab, Aisha reports.

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Hong Kong’s offline and virtual events platform EventX closes $18M Series B

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The Series B came eight years after EventX was founded, an unusually patient fundraising pace compared to many cash-burning internet firms across the border in mainland China. Today, the platform also has a lead generation function, helping organizers develop new clients and partners through events. Hopin’ into lessons from Peloton.

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A Vision of Radical Networking Simplicity

CIO

Count them: the home Wi-Fi, the ISP, the Internet, a Domain Name System (DNS) provider, a content delivery network (CDN), applications distributed among multiple providers in multiple clouds, credit authentication companies, a private customer information database. In networking today, complexity reigns. What is a unified experience?

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Extra Crunch roundup: NS1 EC-1, Pakistan’s tech ecosystem, SPACs bonanza

TechCrunch

For the latest entry in a series of longform articles that explore the inner workings of notable startups, we looked at NS1 , an internet infrastructure company best known for its software-defined DNS. Part 1: Origin story : how three engineers decided to rebuild the internet’s core addressing system. Can advertising scale in VR?

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Thinking of hibernating through the metaverse winter?

CIO

McKinsey & Company calls the metaverse “ the next version of the Internet.” These are some of the typical characteristics of internal enterprise immersive environments: Localized or closed virtual spaces : Spaces are often limited to a geographic location, intranet, or similar “closed” space rather than on the open Internet.