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As the labor shortage continues to plague the workplace, we’ll be looking at humans working alongside robots, avatars, and AI to pick up the slack. Two Israeli companies are deep into using AI to automate communications at scale. Hour One creates synthetic humans...
We’ve updated our Hot Tamale List of Platforms and Tools to help make your decision process easier. Congrats to our three latest additions:MEETYOOScaling for large events is not a problem for MEETYOO; the platform can handle up to 50,000 live participants. It makes it...
Just one month away, Consensus is the largest event devoted to exploring the full ecosystem of blockchain and crypto. Normally it’s held in NYC but this year it’s moving to Austin (a more decentralized place, says Brad Spies, Managing Director of Consensus, the...
We love to rename things that already have perfectly good names just to show that we’re keeping fresh. And so it goes with the word “event.” It is so passé. Call it a journey, a 360-degree adventure, a community, an experience—just not an event. Events have defined...
Alfred Poor, our technical editor, believes that “Content” may still be King, but “Connection” is the Ace in the deck. And video is one of the best ways to get your content across. Producing video content can be a time-consuming chore, especially if it’s not the focus...
Forget the humans. Humans need supply chains, mailboxes, physical goods, shipping information and returns. “Direct-to-avatar” (D2A) is a new business model that sells digital goods directly to your avatar. You can walk around naked. Just a year ago D2A was mostly part...
This past Saturday was the fart fest of gas fees. The blockchain imploded under the weight of The Bored Apes Yacht Club's debut of its new metaverse where it is selling parcels of land in addition to its insanely priced NFT art. Think of gas fees as transaction fees,...
Cathy Hackl is a smart cookie and a true metaverse evangelist. From co-authoring a new book called Navigating the Metaverse, to heading up Decentraland’s FashionWeek, she’s a geyser of information. Her latest “spout” is a series of great metaverse tutorials on...
Even the virtual world cannot escape the inevitability of taxes. But it’s complicated. How you determine what you owe for US taxes on digital events is outlined in this free guide: Swoogo’s US Guide to Sales Tax for In-Person, Virtual and Hybrid Events. Much of it...
The smart money says that metaverse events will entertain consumers and turn us all into gamers, but the big money in the metaverse will be at the enterprise level. And it’s already happening in a metaverse near you. Mytaverse, rooom, MootUp, Virbela, NewSky...
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