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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. They will benefit from our scale, our talent, and our ability to help bring their innovations to the market faster.”

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How is Digital Technology Transforming the Accessibility of Mental Health Services and Therapy?

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With the emergence of AI, ML, DevOps, AR VR cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, digital transformation, application modernization, and other digital technologies, IT practice in mental health therapy is undergoing significant changes. billion AI and ML 2032 $22,384.27 million IoT 2028 $293.10

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What do investors need from your problem slide?

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It’s the nature of entrepreneurship: Our brains are wired to keep an eye on what could be better and how that gap in the market can be turned into an opportunity. Some founders are tempted to go way into the weeds on this slide, explaining the competitive landscape, market size, customer segments, value propositions and more.

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Meta’s NPE team takes a global focus with seed-stage investments, offices in emerging markets

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Now, NPE will begin testing out a new thesis: that the next big idea may come from a market outside the U.S. But future checks may go to non-metaverse companies to include those with more near-term potential — like startups taking advantage of the mobile internet in new ways. based projects.

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

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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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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

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Commenting, Tom Carter, Ultraleap CEO, said recent chatter about the VR-based “Metaverse” from companies like Facebook, as well as the shift to touchless interfaces brought about by the pandemic, had helped its fund-raising. For Ultraleap, this new era is not constrained to VR headsets.

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