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Web3 Funding Gains 43% Year To Year But Dips From Q2

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Infinite Reality , a Connecticut-based creator of 3D immersive environments, raised a $350 million round at a $5.1 Bellevue, Washington-based Story Protocol , a blockchain technology to protect intellectual property rights for content creators, raised an $80 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz that valued the startup at $2.25

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Foursquare founder banks funding for mystery 3D social network startup

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The excitement around web3 and the metaverse have pulled plenty of entrepreneurs who defined the first generation of native mobile apps to begin questioning what’s next. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley is on the co-founding team of a new startup called LivingCities , alongside Matt Miesnieks, who sold his most recent startup 6D.ai

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3 ways web3 recruiters can improve their hiring game

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The metaverse is a virtual reality computer domain where users can interact with 3D experiences. Web3 engineers should have experience in blockchain development and be familiar with the Solidity programming language, which is used to write smart contracts.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

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ByondXR – Provides retail 3D virtual experiences that are fast, scalable and in line with the latest metaverse technologies. echo3D – Cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR that provides tools and network infrastructure to help quickly build and deploy 3D/metaverse apps, games and content. NeuroTrainer, Inc. I-EMS Group, Ltd.

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Sequoia Games looks to capitalize on NBA Top Shot fever with an AR tabletop game

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The game is centered around these hexagonal discs that function like trading cards but can be tracked inside its mobile app with 3D animations of the players superimposed on top of them. With mechanics similar to other popular trading card games, users can augment those tiles with power-up tiles. Image via Sequoia Games.

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Find trends, advice and value at these special breakout sessions during TC Disrupt 2021

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Together Labs is leveraging the power of blockchain technology to create the new metaverse economy where users can buy, sell, invest and shape its future. Soon, Together Labs will introduce additional blockchain offerings to accelerate the transition to a complete blockchain economy, setting the economic model for other metaverses to follow.

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Daily Crunch: Hackers pinched LastPass customers’ encrypted password vaults, parent company admits

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If you like the great outdoors : Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform, acquired Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors, to make that next hike a doozy, Paul reports. Carly writes that the company’s owner, GoTo, says hackers stole customers’ encrypted backups.

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