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5 Oculus Quest Tips for Nonprofits New to the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The ability to build and customize your home environment, according to Meta, is coming soon along with the ability to invite your Oculus friends for a visit. Create your Oculus Avatar. Have fun with your avatar! For your first avatar-to-avatar contact, it’s recommended to visit Horizon Venues.

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Nonprofits in The Metaverse: Pros + Cons

Media Cause

Alternatively, some companies have created online “merch,” like shirts that people can buy for their virtual avatars. . Skepticism, cultural trends, and the sheer “newness” of cryptocurrency are some of the many factors that make this market an incredibly volatile one.

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The Olympics and Learning – A Fierce Combination

Gyrus

If a big swimming event is occurring next week and it is going to be in the hearts and minds of your employees, why not place a game in front of them that allows them to expand on their learnings while advancing their avatars across a cartoony swimming pool? Why not create badges that match your gamification efforts?

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Virtual Morocco in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar with a fez I pocked up in Virtual Morocco in Second Life, a student project! I've been curious what a virtual Angkor Wat or other cultural wonders of the world look like in Second Life? How could explore culture in a virtual environment as a learning experience that is connected to a real life experience?

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

NTEN

There are also cultural, social, and interpersonal challenges that will go along with this transition. Look for mobile providers to combine these ideas to enable a virtual meeting environment with video, audio, whiteboard, and presentations from multiple attendees. avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions.

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Brighton Beach Brainstorm

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. That being said, in much of Africa and Asia, Kevin didn't see a culture of novel reading among the educated. He would like to see the disability community speak with one voice on these issues.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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