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Thinking of hibernating through the metaverse winter?

CIO

Some examples are interacting in marketplaces to purchase virtual goods or services, playing games, exploring museums or gardens, touching or seeing 3D versions of objects, hiking, attending conferences or musical events, painting, and composing music. You can start slow and build in new technology components over time.

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a16z-backed Rooms.xyz lets you build interactive, 3D rooms and simple games in your browser

TechCrunch

” Image Credits: Rooms.xyz The idea for Rooms was inspired by a combination of factors, explains co-founder Jason Toff — namely, that 3D model creation today was far too difficult. Prior to Rooms, Toff spent ten years at Google, off and on, in product marketing and product management, including at YouTube, Area 120, and in VR/AR.

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mmhmm, Phil Libin’s new startup, acquires Memix to add enhanced filters to its video presentation toolkit

TechCrunch

They are in reality graphic engineering whizzes, with Jeremias-Vila currently the lead graphics software engineer at Pixar, and Quilez until last year a product manager and lead engineer at Facebook, where he created, among other things, the Quill VR animation and production tool for Oculus.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Use of content about AR and VR dropped 25% because people have missed the real story: we don’t need 3D goggles; we need tools for collaboration. Product management, the discipline of managing a product’s lifecycle from the initial idea through development and release to the market, is also a desirable skill.

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