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Several Canadian organisations have announced 11 Black-owned content creation firms selected for a major accelerator programme aimed at promoting racial diversity in the immersive filming industry. The OYA Black Arts Coalition (OBAC), Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (CFC Media Lab), and Dark Slope recently revealed the names of founders selected for the Scale Up Immersive […]

This Monday, Bytedance, Pico Interactive’s parent company, announced new augmented reality (AR) tools for its massively popular social media platform TikTok following a successful beta testing stage late last year. TikTok is introducing Effect House, an in-app creator platform that enables users to design and share AR effects and experiences with others on the platform. […]

As the war for building the one true Metaverse heats up, there is another contender that demands our attention: Nakamoto Games, or the Nakaverse. The platform has been in beta testing for a while and its first title ‘Duck Hunter’ launched in an exclusive community in October last year. The following December, the platform went […]

The integration will feed a lot more product listings into the Pinterest ecosystem.

YouTube’s offering new caption editing capacity, while TikTok’s rolling out auto-captions by default.

Pinterest’s new API will facilitate all new use cases for third-party management apps and tools.

The acquisition will help Twitter alert users to the most relevant content in the app in real-time. 

Today is a watershed moment for virtual reality: Pico has finally done what everyone in the XR community was waiting

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This Monday, Meta, the company behind the upcoming Horizon Worlds Metaverse platform, announced a selection of new tools to support the monetisation of user-created content. The firm is only testing its tools with limited US developers currently, although Meta is slowly rolling out the tools to more developers. The Menlo Park-based firm is testing its […]

The Metaverse is now a multi-billion-dollar investment opportunity, and across 2021, mention of the term increased exponentially during board meetings and earnings calls, and investors are taking notice. The Metaverse has also transformed the economy in two ways – first, by providing an alternative investment instrument by way of blockchain, and second, by opening up […]

Meta’s looking to kick-start metaverse development with new programs to incentivize creator experiments.