🪙 Buxom Cosmetics Launches Metaverse Experience in Decentraland
Buxom Cosmetics has teamed up with Publicis Sapient, a digital business transformation company, to launch Buxom PlumpVerse in the virtual world of Decentraland. The Buxom Babe is known for being the queen of the party, [and] the Buxom PlumpVerse.
Buxom PlumpVerse will have three unique floors – a first floor lounge featuring a plumping lip bar inspired by Buxom's new Plump Shot Sheer Tints formulated with Pure Vegan Collagen, a dance area, DJ on floor two, to further play into the brand's DNA rooted in entertainment and music, and an immersive, virtual try-on store on the third floor – where users can explore, interact, try on shades and participate in gamified experiences. Buxom's PlumpVerse bridges the gap between the brand and virtual world.
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🇦🇪 Dubai launches horse racing in the Metaverse
Dubai Verse Cup (a play-to-earn Metaverse-based horse racing platform) has joined forces with Dubai Racing Club — which organises the huge races at Meydan — to create the new game.The Metaverse-based horse racing platform will allow game players to ride around the famous.
“Users will gain rewards in the form of $DVCC tokens, based on their racing and breeding performance. “Players can exchange tokens for horses, perks, skins, and avatars, making the game a thriving marketplace and competition space at the heart of the Meydan Racecourse.”. So, trained jockey or not, you will be able to ride around Meydan Racecourse track during the horse races in the Metaverse using your smartphone or AR/VR devices.
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⚡️ Singtel partners with SK Telecom for its first metaverse event
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The event, ‘Destination:ifland’, was held at the Singtel Comcentre in Singapore. Users were able to design their own digital avatars to take part in a range of activities. Singtel’s metaverse experience was powered by SKT’s ifland platform. SKT first launched ifland in South Korea in July 2021. As part of Destination:ifland, around 130 winners of a contest that ran on Singtel’s social media channels were able to join a virtual room. Experiences that have taken place on the ifland platform include virtual concerts, celebrity fan meets, and more.
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🖼 Coggi NFT Sells Out Second Release as CORE Mainnet Launches
The latest NFT Collection sold out rapidly, paving the way for creating more digital artworks. The newest sale comes after the protocol sold out the first ten Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) on January 6, as reported by BSC News. The new collection comprises two NFTs sold via the Miidas marketplace on Core.
The first of two digital artworks sold out in under five seconds, while the second was purchased by a community member who followed the channel. Fahura Digital Arts have also teased launching another collection to the public in a similar fashion. Fahura Digital Arts mints the COGGI Coin NFTs as ERC-721 tokens on the CoreDAO testnet. Now that the CoreDAO Mainnet is live, we expect the creator, powered by Rice Protocol, to launch its NFT collection to the public soon.
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📣 Companies Are Trying To Bring Lifelike Smells And Touch To The Metaverse
Metaverses of the world are now expanding the experiential capabilities of wearable technology to deliver a truly web 3.0 experience to users who want a peek into the future of consumer technology. While many companies bet on headgear like VR glasses as the future of mobile tech, its sales slowed down by 2% in 2022.
US-based OVR Technology showcased a headset that contains a cartridge with eight primary aromas that may be combined to create different scents. They plan to release it later in 2023. An earlier version of the same was used to market fragrances, but now the tech has been imbibed into VR googles to let users smell virtually anything, AP reported. Even then, such tech is far from wide use and is still many years away from becoming accessible to all customers. big companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Meta from pouring money into wearable tech capable of feeling sensations.
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⚡️Brands showcase metaverse platforms at Auto Expo 2023
After a dull 2022, metaverse projects are back with a bang at the Auto Expo 2023. On Wednesday, companies including Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai Motor and MG Motor showcased their metaverse experiences, and created ‘digital twins’ of their own Auto Expo floors.
On Tuesday, Maruti announced the Expoverse, its third attempt at creating a metaverse environment for its users after the Nexa-verse in July 2022, and Arena-verse in December. The first two metaverse experiences for India’s largest car manufacturer were akin to virtual car colour and configuration simulators, and were made available across its showrooms. allows users to access the company’s metaverse experience on a web browser.
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🖼 Game of Thrones NFT collection sells out in 7 hours despite weird avatar hands
An official Game of Thrones NFT collection sold out in just seven hours on NFT marketplace Nifty’s. That’s despite the collection getting ridiculed on Twitter for its art quality, mainly due to several of the avatars having claw-like hands.
With a current floor price of 0.07ETH ($93), each NFT "box" contains an avatar, resource cards and story cards. The price has dropped from an original minting price of $150. Buyers also have reported difficulties with getting their NFTs, including being double charged and not receiving the NFTs. Nifty’s said any processed payments that did not result in NFTs appearing in a wallet will be reversed or refunded. A second series of Game of Thrones NFTs also will launch on OpenSea.
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📣 Manchester City is coming soon to the metaverse
Manchester City is gearing up to enter the metaverse, in partnership with Sony. For the English football club’s many fans around the world, this will be an opportunity to enter a virtual version of the team’s stadium and take part in new digital experiences.
Eventually, the idea is that fans will be able to teleport into this virtual stadium, each under the guise of their own avatar. The players’ avatars are already able to move around on the field. Each player has already been equipped with sensors in order to reproduce their way of moving and playing with the ball. For the moment, the experience consists only of a virtual visit to the Etihad Stadium.
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🚘 Rolls Royce Partners British Painter To Launch ‘Six Elements’ NFT
Luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce (OTC:RYCEY) Motor Cars has collaborated with internationally acclaimed artist, Sacha Jafri, to release six hand-painted vehicles with their NFTs.Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Dubai and Abu Dhabi teamed up with Jafri to create a collection.
The “Six Elements” title took inspiration from Jafri’s well-known “Journey of Humanity” painting. Moreover, the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars x Jafri collaboration aims to raise $1 million to support humanity-centric charity organizations focusing on education, health, and sustainability. Aside from the partnership with Sacha Jafri, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars will release an NFT initiative titled “Rolls-Royce That Keeps on Giving.” The initiative includes six other NFTs.
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📣 Calvin Harris enters the metaverse for first ever VR concert (with dolphins)
Scottish superproducer and DJ Calvin Harris has announced an immersive virtual performance set to take place later this month on TikTok LIVE. Harris will be appearing as a virtual avatar in a digitally animated performance.
The event description describes the concert as "a metaverse party filled with audio reactive visuals in a nature inspired luminous world." Those experiencing the event through VR headsets will be able to "explore Calvin’s world as avatars, party together, and be a mere few feet away from Calvin while he performs.". Perhaps Harris' endorsement will change that - perhaps not.
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📣 NFT Research Tool NFT Inspect Is Shutting Down
NFT Inspect, a popular research tool to measure the value of an NFT (non-fungible token) and the strength of its community, is turning off its virtual lights on Jan. 17, according to a tweet by the project. “We want to sincerely thank each and every one of you for your support over the rollercoaster of this last year.”
For those on Crypto Twitter, NFT Inspect allows users to track the NFTs used in the profile pictures of the most prolific tweeters. It lets a researcher see which NFT projects are ‘in’ among Crypto Twitter’s hip crowd and flag changes. The decision to shutter the project comes as market interest in NFTs has collapsed. An 84% decrease in resell profit was observed during the period, according to the report.
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💰 Polygon Paid y00ts NFT Collection $3 Million to Leave Solana
DeLabs, the startup behind top Solana NFT collections DeGods and y00ts, has revealed that it received a $3 million grant to move y00ts to the Ethereum sidechain Polygon. Y00ts are a spinoff profile picture NFT collection from the DeLabs team.
According to a statement published on Discord by founder Frank, aka Rohun Vora, DeLabs will put the funds toward hiring efforts and launch a crypto incubator to support its NFT ecosystem. The money seems to come with no strings attached besides the promised move to the new blockchain. Frank said the funds are coming in as a “non-equity grant,” meaning Polygon is not receiving a stake in DeLabs in exchange.
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🖼 Fanatics to Sell 60% of Candy Digital Stake Amid Struggling NFT Market
Fanatics, the retailer specializing in licensed sports merchandise, is divesting 60% of its stake in the non-fungible token (NFT) company Candy Digital, according to reports. The company is selling its Candy Digital stake to an investor group associated with billionaire Mike Novogratz and his firm, Galaxy Digital.
After a rough 2022 in the non-fungible token (NFT) industry, licensed sports merchandise firm Fanatics has decided to sell 60% of its Candy Digital shares, according to a CNBC report published on Jan. 4, 2023. CNBC obtained an internal email citing Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin. The news of Fanatics dropping 60% of its stake in Candy follows the NFT company reportedly laying off.
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🖼 RTFKT COO Was Robbed NFT Collection Worth Over $170,000
Nikhil Gopalani, the COO of the NFT project RTFKT, a cryptocurrency brand owned by Nike, announced on Twitter that his NFT collection had been taken as a result of a phishing scam. RTFKT’s CTO said that the company won’t be able to discuss further specifics.
Gopalani called the assailant a clever phisher and said that he was selling his Clone X NFTs. In a tweet directed at the Clone X community. Gopalani may have given access codes to some scammers, according to a tweet by RTFKT Chief Technology Officer Samuel Cardillo, even though the phishing technique has not yet been made public.
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⚡️ Magic Eden blames third-party cacher for 'unsavory' NFT images
Solana's largest NFT marketplace, Magic Eden, displayed incorrect images for some non-fungible tokens yesterday. Some of the misplaced stills included "unsavory" adult content — the result of a compromised third-party image cacher, it claims.
Magic Eden has been busy. It recently extended support for the Polygon network in an effort to add multi-chain functionality and future possibilities for blockchain gaming. It also recently announced a rewards system that allows users to receive rewards, discounts and other perks based on their activity on the platform. Additionally, the marketplace hired its first Chief Gaming Officer. which also included stills from TV show Big Bang Theory.
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🔫 WEF launches ‘virtual global village’ in the metaverse
The World Economic Forum in collaboration with Microsoft and Accenture on Tuesday announced the launch of the Global Collaboration Village, a metaverse project to help tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
The virtual village will “bolster more diverse global collaboration and large-scale action,” the WEF believes. The village, supported by both private and public partners, will “use the frontier capabilities of the metaverse to find solutions for addressing the big issues of our time in a more open, inclusive and sustained way,” he said. More than 80 organizations and founding partners are backing the project.
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⚡️ VR Glove Enhances Metaverse with Realistic Touch Experience
A recent invention by a team of researchers from NUS promises to substantially enhance a user’s sense of touch in virtual reality (VR), with the aim of delivering a more authentic and immersive experience within the metaverse. Their new invention – called HaptGlove .
While the concept of haptic gloves is not new, current technologies are not able to give users a realistic sense of touch. For example, typical haptic glove designs in the market use vibration motors, which could not accurately replicate the real-world sense of touch such as simulating the hardness and shape of a VR object. Other haptic gloves use pneumatic actuators, which are devices that generate a sense of pressure.
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📣 Seoul launches ambitious metaverse platform for city services, tourism
The Seoul Metropolitan Government officially opened the doors Monday to its own metaverse platform, a virtual world where users will be able to play games, chat, file official forms, get help with taxes and receive other city services.
The South Korean capital is the first major city to set up a public metaverse platform, with a five-year roadmap for rolling out a full menu of government, business, tourism and culture offerings. During the first phase of the rollout, Seoul citizens will be able to access official city paperwork, file complaints and get personalized answers about local taxes. but is now widely available through the Google Play and Apple app stores.
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⚡️ Kiraverse Could Be The Game That Brings NFT Gaming To Mass Adoption
Kiraverse, a multiplayer third-person shooter game that is currently in beta, has recently partnered with GameStop, one of the largest video game retailers in the world. This partnership is set to lead the charge in non-fungible token (NFT).
The partnership with GameStop is a major step forward for Kiraverse and the NFT gaming industry as a whole. GameStop’s vast network of retail locations and online presence will provide the game with a massive reach and bring it to the attention of a large number of potential players. This will be a great help in onboarding millions of new users into web 3 gaming. Kiraverse is set to revolutionize the gaming industry with its stunning graphics.
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⚡️ Bill Gates Props Up AI Against Metaverse and Web3 Tech
Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has given his opinion about the relevance of Web3, metaverse, and AI (artificial intelligence), a set of technologies in development today. Gates stated that AI was “the big” revolutionary technology that is comparable to what the internet was in the year 2000.
Bill Gates, one of the co-founders of software behemoth Microsoft, has issued his opinion when it comes to the state and relevance of several emergent technologies being developed today. In a recent Reddit AMA, Gates showed a preference for AI (artificial intelligence) over other alternatives such as Web3 and the metaverse, when asked about the relevance of this set of technologies being developed.
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📣 L’Oréal Is Among New Investors in Metaverse Developer Digital Village
In a fashionable vote of confidence for the metaverse and Web3, L’Oréal’s venture capital fund BOLD and the British Fashion Council are among participants in a $4 million funding round for French metaverse developer Digital Village.
The company revolutionizes commerce and community engagement by equipping brands and creators with the tools to build captivating, immersive virtual experiences in the metaverse,” according to an announcement shared first with WWD. “The funding will be used to enhance the platform’s capabilities, adding new tools to power 3D world development, advanced avatar customization .
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🔫 Bill Gates dismisses the metaverse's potential to achieve internet-style growth
Bill Gates downplayed the growth of web3 and the metaverse, instead backing artificial intelligence as the next revolutionary technology."AI is the big one. I don't think web3 was that big or that metaverse stuff alone was revolutionary but AI is quite revolutionary," he said.
In his 11th Ask Me Anything on Reddit, the Microsoft co-founder was asked whether any mammoth technology is at a similar stage now as the internet was in the early 2000s. The Redditor referenced Gates' purported comments at the time — which were similar to comments he made in a revised version of his book The Road Ahead — that the internet would be much bigger in the long term than people were expecting. crypto and NFTs claiming that they are "100% based on greater fool theory.".
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🖼 Mobile Streams wins NFT contract with La Liga football club Cadiz CF
Mobile Streams PLC on Wednesday said it has signed a five year contract to be the exclusive provider of non-fungible tokens for La Liga football club Cadiz Club de Futbol.Under the contract, Mobile Streams will be the exclusive provider of NFT products for Cadiz CF.
Mobile Streams is a London-based mobile content provider. Cadiz Club de Futbol is a Spanish professionAL football club based in Cadiz, Andalusia. It competes in Spain's top-flight football league La Liga, "one of the world's top sporting leagues.". The NFTs will be sold via a primary marketplace that the company is creating for the club, as well as via Mobile Streams' telco contracts globally, its LiveScores sites and apps, and the MOSMetaverse website.
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🇦🇺 Australian Open Metaverse Announces Mint for AO23 ArtBall
NFT Technologies Inc. a leading technology company partnering with top-tier brands to accelerate their entry into the world of web3 through innovative technologies and unparalleled creativity, is pleased to announce that its project with Tennis Australia, AO Metaverse has announced mint schedule for ArtBall 2023.
New for AO23 is Match Point equivalent tickets. Any AO ArtBall that scores a Match Point on the AO23 court, will receive a claim for two tickets to the equivalent match at AO24. Meaning if an AO ArtBall scores the Match Point from the Men’s or Women’s Singles Final, the AO23 ArtBall Member gets two complimentary tickets to the Men’s or Women’s Singles Final at AO24, respectively.We are pleased to offer our AO22 supporters a unique opportunity to join the waitlist and secure their ArtBalls.
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💰 Walmart workload explodes and new green NFT marketplace launches
The partnership between Walmart China and VeChain continues to mark new milestones. Walmart crushed its previous monthly transaction record during the month of December. The achievement comes even as VeChain continues to get commendations.
According to data highlighted by pseudonymous VeChain community administrator VetMaik, the previous monthly record was set just in November. The feat points to the continued growth of the retail corporation and the workload it sends to VeChain, VetMaik noted. Meanwhile, the December transaction volume was topped off with Walmart performing 1.8 million transactions in one single day during the month.
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💰 Polygon to Host Mastercard’s Web3 Artist Accelerator and a ‘Limited Time Release NFT’
Mastercard is collaborating with Polygon to bring together music artists, their fans, and industry mentors through a Web 3 accelerator program. Mastercard Artist Accelerator will launch in spring 2023 with a live-streamed artists showcase – per the announcement.
The program targets musicians, DJs, and producers with the tools to share their content on Web 3, including minting non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It includes exclusive access to special events and music releases. For the fans, the MasterCard Artist Accelerator features a limited NFT edition dubbed The MasterCard Music Pass, providing users with exclusive Web3 learning resources.MATIC ranks tenth among other cryptos, with a market capitalization of more than $7 billion.
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📣 NFT Marketplace SuperRare Cuts 30% of Staff: 'We Over-Hired'
SuperRare Labs, the company behind NFT marketplace SuperRare, became the latest crypto player to make job cuts on Friday, announcing it will reduce its staff by 30%.The news came from SuperRare CEO John Crain, who tweeted out a message he sent to employees in Slack.
Crain cited aggressive growth and over-hiring as the reasons for the reduction, saying he takes “full ownership of this mistake.”. SuperRare is a social network for art creators and collectors of NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. NFTs are blockchain-based tokens linked to digital and physical content, providing proof of ownership, authenticity, or membership in a group. Since its launch, several big names in sports and entertainment have taken their digital art projects to SuperRare.
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🔫 Metaverse leaders at CES see possible side hustle in selling personal data
CES panel, technology executives ponder people owning and selling their personal data to brands of their choosing.Rather than being surveilled by internet companies, blockchain technology could allow people to not only protect their digital identities but also earn compensation.
Vlassopulos joined other technology executives at a panel in Las Vegas this week, where he and peers traded ideas about what the metaverse and web3 might look like from a brand perspective. The panel was a CES-sponsored event — one of the year’s biggest tech conferences — and part of an all-day series called Digital Hollywood. “It’s moving in the direction of providing data in exchange for value.”.and part of an all-day series called Digital Hollywood.
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⚡️ Magic Eden Refunds Users For Fake NFT Bug
Magic Eden has resolved a problem whereby unverified NFTs would show up in verified collections. Due to a UI flaw, the hack was possible.The impact was limited to 25 unconfirmed NFTs sold in four verified collections, the team tweeted on January 5.
The company said in a statement on January 4 that a flaw in the “activity indexer,” which had just been made available for its Snappy Marketplace and Pro Trade tools, effectively allowed fraudulent NFTs to avoid verification and be displayed among real NFT collections. Unverified NFTs would appear as confirmed due to an issue that Magic Eden has now resolved. The impact was limited to 25 unconfirmed NFTs sold in four verified collections.
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🔫 Com2uS Metabus Attracts $9.5 Million Investment To Join The Metaverse
Com2Verse, a metaverse subsidiary of South Korean game developer Com2uS, announced on the 3rd that it had attracted strategic investments of 4 billion won each from Hana Financial Group, Kyobo Book Center, and Kyowon Group.Com2Verse will conduct technical exchanges with these companies.
According to Decenter, Com2Verse received 4 billion won in strategic investments from Hana Financial Group, Kyobo Book Center (a large chain bookstore in Korea), and Kyowon Group, totaling 12 billion won (about $9.5 million).So far, the company raised an initial capital of 15 billion won (approximately $11.85 million) from Com2uS, WYSIWYG Studios, etc., when it was established and obtained an additional 16 billion won (approximately $12.64 million) by attracting external investment.
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