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The Role of the Avatar in the Metaverse

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Using its lastest face-tracking tools on the Quest Pro, Meta promises to deliver avatars with greater realism, depth, and expression. Estonia’s Ready Player Me has been a leader in this technology with its interoperable, highly-bespoke avatars. They can also enable necessary interoperability between the metaverse’s many features.

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Meta makes fundraising easier ahead of Earth Day

Mashable VR

Meta has announced new fundraising tools and educational initiatives in honor of Earth Day — the global climate awareness holiday taking place on April 22 — including expanded Instagram Reels options for more than 30 countries to participate in digital fundraising. Tweet may have been deleted.

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Denmark Putting VR and AR Into Bachelor’s Degrees

EON Reality

One of the first students who selected the new AR/VR specialization is Dmitri Belogurov from Estonia. As such, EON Reality Denmark has taken a new approach to filling this talent pipeline by collaborating with VIA University College, creating a two-year AR and VR specialization for their Software Engineering Bachelor’s degree.

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ARTISANT Launch Web3 Fashion amid FTX Collapse

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Self-custody wallets are decentralised finance (DeFi) tools that provide users with locally-saved crypto assets rather than with centrally-owned exchanges. The tools allow users to express their identity and create more realistic, personal interactions on the upcoming Metaverse. PHOTO: ARTISANT/ MetaFactory.

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Top 25 Virtual Reality Software Development Companies

ARVR

A US company that also has a location in Estonia, started its path in 2001. It is a digital agency focused on improving mobile products using modern tools and technologies, including VR. The Estonia-based studio has a small team, but boasts impressive results in AR/VR development and consulting.

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Ready Player Me Raises $56M to Expand Cross-game Avatar Platform

Road to VR

Ready Player Me co-founder and CEO Timmu Tõke says the funds will allow the company to continue scaling its avatar system to make it “more flexible for developers, create new tools to help developers monetize with avatar assets, and build tools for individual creators to take part of the cross-game avatar marketplace.”

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Ready Player Me Earns $56m in Series B Funding

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The additional funds will boost flexibility and performance of the platform, add avatar creation tools and diversify real-time 3D (RT3D) assets for avatar demographics, and expand to other avatar platforms. Interoperability as a Necessity.

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