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Daily Crunch: Meta’s upcoming VR headset will track eye movements and capture facial expressions

TechCrunch

Virtual reality, Meta style : Meta’s new virtual reality headset technology is going to focus on face-tracking and eye-tracking, features the company calls “social presence,” Ivan writes. The TechCrunch Top 3. It doesn’t come out until October, so you have roughly two months to pull together the $400 we think it is going to cost.

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MeetKai launches new room-scanning tech and metaverse builder

TechCrunch

Not everyone believes that the metaverse — social, VR-centric worlds — has staying power. The 3D-digitizing service, called MeetKai Reality, can bring various objects and spaces from the real world into the metaverse, says MeetKai. But MeetKai is among the steadfast optimists. MeetKai’s room-rendering tech.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

TechCrunch

The return of neighborhood retail and other surprising real estate trends. Alex Wilhelm dug into Discord’s possible $10 billion exit to Microsoft and explored IPO price ranges for real estate tech company Compass and Intermedia Cloud Communications, a unified-communications-as-a-service company. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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Over 500 mobile apps are now using the term ‘metaverse’ to attract new users

TechCrunch

Social-crypto platforms — which were really just MMORPGs with a heavy financial component — were also dubbed metaverses, prompting land rushes for metaverse real estate. The terms “AR” and “VR” were found in 11% and 9% of the “metaverse” apps, respectively.

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Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market

TechCrunch

The potential success could signal how the future of work will blend gaming and socialization for distributed teams. When that didn’t work, they pivoted into apps, VR and full-body robotics. The total addressable market for professional, social gaming is murky. Twitter says staff can continue working from home permanently.

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Daily Crunch: Patreon rival Fanfix projects paying creators $50M by end of 2023

TechCrunch

Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Move over TikTok : There’s a new social media content sheriff in town. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz appeared onstage with WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann to talk about their firm’s $350 million investment in Flow, Neumann’s new residential real estate company.

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It’s time to evolve beyond marketing to create meaningful metaverse moments

CIO

IBM missed the PC revolution when it started, Kodak didn’t see the potential of digital cameras, all three major card networks ignored peer-to-peer payments, and what has happened to all that Blockbuster real estate? That’s the direct customer experience. What I think is equally interesting is the indirect customer experience.

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