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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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Avataar raises $45 million to improve consumer shopping experience with life-sized 3D product evaluation

TechCrunch

Avataar helps direct-to-consumer brands and e-commerce marketplaces with shaping their consumer journeys with 3D rendition of products. As long as the product images are in at least 1080p resolution, Aluru said, Avataar can stitch a virtual and 3D version from it. The six-year-old startup has raised about $55.5 Image Credits: Avataar.

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Y Combinator-backed Poly uses AI to generate art assets

TechCrunch

One of the more interesting ventures to emerge from the space recently is Poly, which lets designers create video game and other virtual assets, including textures for 3D models, using only text prompts. Poly’s first tool in its planned web-based suite generates 3D textures with physically-based rendering maps.

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Daily Crunch: Stealth startup Figure releases first photos of its all-purpose humanoid robot

TechCrunch

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 My friends call me Murphy; you call me Figure : It’s “iRobot” come to life: Figure emerges from stealth with the first images of its humanoid robot, Brian reports. The investor says it could take three years for the market to “accurately” reprice late-stage companies , Connie reports.

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Is the metaverse inching closer to reality?

Capgemini

What the metaverse represents for the world today is essentially the evolution of the internet to a 3D immersive platform. Many of us will be overly familiar with the 2D environment of a video call, where some people prefer to stay off-camera and social cues can be limited by technical issues. Distance negatively impacts collaboration.

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Top 11 Ecommerce trends to keep you ahead of the curve

Openxcell

trillion is expected to be generated by social media commerce by 2026 Smartphones are used by 91% of shoppers to make online purchases The eCommerce fraud detection and prevention market will reach over $69 billion by 2025 eCommerce trends in 2023 and beyond eCommerce’s future is much easier to predict. Their audience is real.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

After 2 months in an underground shelter they have also used their technology to register evidence of war crimes and provide the ability to immerse oneself into Ukraine to experience it, it’s now developing applications for psychological trauma treatment, VR medical trainin, combat surveillance systems and making the de-mining process safer.