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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In this early stage, the metaverse is being envisioned and portrayed as an online reality that we humans enter and experience as avatars through a VR headset, similar to the Oasis experience in the movie Ready Player One. In the metaverse today, AR and VR are blending to become one simultaneous user experience. Virtual Reality (VR).

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Two Tagging Projects that Make Sense

Museum 2.0

The game also blends the point-based motivation with changes in what is expected of the tagger. This is a community-building step in which you create a basic profile (selecting an artwork from the museum's collection as your avatar) and join the community of collection taggers. Here's how it works. Step 1: join the posse.

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Self-Identification and Status Updates: Personal Entrypoints to Museum Experiences

Museum 2.0

But what's the right visitor profile for a history museum or an art museum? At the Brooklyn Museum, you are invited to pick a digital avatar (image) from their collection to represent you. Of course, in most cases, contributors are spectators and vice versa; the audience is blended. Some allow you to write your life story.

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