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Facebook’s Quest to Kill the Smartphone

VRScout

When Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, we didn’t have Android or iOS, but the mobile phone market was well established — think Blackberry, Motorola, and Nokia. Snapchat also has Spectacles , glasses for consumers to record video from. It could also be prompted by a desire to not miss out on the next big tech surge after smartphones.

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Kim Nevelsteen wants to bridge different virtual worlds to create the Metaverse

The Ghost Howls

The video was astonishing: he has been able to create a portal inside a Minecraft server , and if you enter the portal, you enter into another server, this time playing Doom. I’ve been pondering solutions for a viable Metaverse since at least 2004. Can you detail what you have done for people that have not seen this video yet?

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

Rome Reborn® VR is a series of apps and videos that present individual tours of the city, including, for example, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the imperial fora, the imperial palace, the Pantheon, and the entire city seen from the air. Think of each app or video as a chapter in a guidebook about ancient Rome. Rome Reborn 3.0

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Mega-roundup of Facebook Connect 2: all the news in a single place!

The Ghost Howls

Mark Zuckerberg and the other Facebook executives have spent around 80 minutes explaining with many words, images, and videos what is the “metaverse” , why it is our future, why Facebook should invest in it, what could be Facebook’s business model in it, and how Facebook is already working on it. Oculus brands disappears.

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