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In January we held a Town Hall, convening events stakeholders to look for a path forward as we emerge from COVID-19. That was January. Here’s what we’re seeing in March. Virtual events will have a price tag. We’re seeing less free access. You will not be able to...
As we head into a Web 3 immersive or metaverse world (insert your favorite word), where every moment is monetized and recorded on a whopping long blockchain, someone’s got to be making some mighty hardware to power the experience. Recent hardware announcements:Ian...
Meta’s Inside the Lab: Building for the Metaverse With AI is the Metaverse Manifesto according to Mark Zuckerberg. Whatever you think about Zuckerberg's plan for metaverse domination, Meta is developing AI tools for automating metverse creation. In this video you’ll...
It’s no secret that physical events have an impact on the environment, but you might not have spent much time thinking about the environmental impact of a digital event. Eventcellany created a calculator that looks at elements like the number of pre-recorded segments...
Live events have a long history of how to audit and report. Who came, who they represent, and where they spent their time at the event are just a few of the metrics that are well codified in a common format. How can we bring the same rigor to the world of virtual...
Image credit: Meta/YouTube Meta’s crypto days are over but they tried to sell a very sorry look at the future of their new metaverse, Horizon Venues. The ad featured washed-up animatronic has-beens that get a refresh in the metaverse. Image credit: Ken Bye on Twitter...
The Super Bowl is the ultimate hybrid event! 70,000 or so in-person attendees and 92 million virtual attendees. As if chicken wings and beer weren’t vices enough… Most of you sat glued to the TV during Sunday’s Super Bowl, but I sat on a Twitter Space hosted...
Last week I pulled the stat that 24% of the more than 3,000 jobs listed on Meta’s website are for AR/VR roles (the NYT). Meta also said it’s planning to create 10,000 jobs in the EU related to the metaverse. This week the European bromance is in a spat. Meta has...
At our Omicron Aftermath Town Hall, we featured key speakers from across the events industry. The session was filled with digestible nuggets we’ll be talking about here. One really salient data point came from our Board Advisor Martin Porter. Porter has been involved,...
Facebook quietly sold the assets of Diem for $200 million to Silvergate Capital Corporation. I liked the concept of Diem currency but didn’t want Facebook to own it. I recall Dante Disparte, one of the original executives at the Libra Foundation, which oversaw Diem,...
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