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Foursquare founder banks funding for mystery 3D social network startup

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The excitement around web3 and the metaverse have pulled plenty of entrepreneurs who defined the first generation of native mobile apps to begin questioning what’s next. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley is on the co-founding team of a new startup called LivingCities , alongside Matt Miesnieks, who sold his most recent startup 6D.ai

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

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ByondXR – Provides retail 3D virtual experiences that are fast, scalable and in line with the latest metaverse technologies. echo3D – Cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR that provides tools and network infrastructure to help quickly build and deploy 3D/metaverse apps, games and content. Energizing Mobility.

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Sequoia Games looks to capitalize on NBA Top Shot fever with an AR tabletop game

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The game is centered around these hexagonal discs that function like trading cards but can be tracked inside its mobile app with 3D animations of the players superimposed on top of them. With mechanics similar to other popular trading card games, users can augment those tiles with power-up tiles. Image via Sequoia Games.

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Top 7 Gaming Trends and Technologies in 2024

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Today, gaming has gone beyond consoles and PCs to virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mobile devices. Conversely, streaming video games have fueled a dramatic boom in 3D game development. Keeping up with the latest mobile gaming trends gives players, developers, and industry professionals an edge over their competitors.

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Daily Crunch: Adobe snaps up Figma in proposed $20B deal that has some scratching their heads

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If you don’t follow cryptocurrency, this means that Ethereum, one of crypto’s most popular blockchains, has now switched to proof-of-stake consensus, which also means it will now consume a lot less electricity, Romain writes. “The Merge” is here : Talk of “The Merge” has been with us for weeks, and today it is finally here.

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Daily Crunch: European subscription prices for Amazon Prime will increase in September 

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Oh, and you don’t even need to read the article, but do yourself a favor and look at the pictures in this piece I published this morning: BMF’s microscopic 3D printing powers are magnificent, and I’m awestruck by how far 3D printing has come. The TechCrunch Top 3. too, Frederic reports.

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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

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The Los Angeles-based company partnered with NBA Top Shot NFT creator Dapper Labs to develop the storefront on Dapper’s Flow blockchain and debuted it to a group of invite-only beta users in December last year, TechCrunch reported at the time. Everybody wants to exist in a 3D spatial world,” Nigam said.

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