By Michelle D. Madsen XR Immersive Tech Inc.’s Uncontained Hyper-Immersive VR attraction has secured its first client. Uncontained will debut July 7 at Playland Amusement Park, one of British Columbia’s most popular family attractions. The goal of the collaboration with Playland is to give park visitors a sneak peek at Uncontained and its flagship game,
By Billy Houghton Tiger Beer Malaysia and Pestle & Mortar Clothing are partnering to create and release a collection of NFTs. This art is set to herald the “Year of the Tiger” from February 1 of this year until January 21 next year and is of note in Chinese mythology and astrology. Called “The Tiger
By Jonathan Hobbs The Cannes ad festival just hit a new platform. Wunderman Thompson has unveiled the WT Inspiration Beach, an immersive metaverse activity at the prestigious festival held each year in France. The virtual entity allows visitors to see how the agency approaches innovation, content and networking in a singular way. Collaboration areas, a
By Michelle D. Madsen What people wear and their sense of style constitute a significant way in which individuals express themselves, says Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, which changed its corporate name to Meta last October. Thus, Meta Platforms, through high-end clothing items for its avatars, will make it possible for users to more
By Billy Houghton VeeFriends is the NFT project of Gary Vaynerchuk, who has seen recent upticks in fame because of his high-octane financial advice. Often called Gary Vee, he has created the VeeFriends Collection to bring to life his ambitions of building a vast community around his specific brand of creative marketing and business advice.
By Michelle D. Madsen Tripp Inc., a Los Angeles-based digital wellness platform, says it has raised $11.2 million to finance ways to technologically enhance well-being in the metaverse. The Tripp platform enables users to create their own experience of visuals and sounds during meditation sessions. The company provides users with a variety of virtual environments
By Michelle D. Madsen As another step toward developing the metaverse, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, says it will be adding an upgrade to its Quest 2 headsets that will allow users to more easily interact with one another in virtual reality. The update for the Quest model being developed by Meta’s Oculus headset
By Billy Houghton Murder Mystery 2, called MM2 by fans, is a popular Roblox game created by nStudio. The game is a sort of sequel to the original classic Murder Mystery. The new version is a turn-based survival game that takes the player through different maps and modes of play. “Players can level up, prestige and
By Michelle D. Madsen Galaxy Racer, a Dubai-based transmedia company, recently announced a $25 million investment in the Quint ecosystem token, $QUINT. The move makes Galaxy the first eSports and lifestyle organization to commit substantial funds to a cryptocurrency ecosystem. Quint will also become Galary Racer’s “native ecosystem token partner” as a result of this
By Jonathan Hobbs Pastel Cronies is a new collection of 10,100 NFTs that’s been organized to provide financial assistance to Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) chapters around the world. The set has more than 180 unique features, including cheerful colors and facial expressions, the company says. The collection comes with 100
