Category Archive for: Trends

Virgin(s) in Space.

Space … the next pleasure travel frontier? – shares in Virgin Galactic climbed as much as 21 percent after the company founded by billionaire Richard Branson conducted a test flight to space for the first time in more than two years. The VSS Unity flight from New Mexico on Saturday marks a critical step on the path toward the start of commercial #spacetourism,…

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Google. Bricks & mortar retail anyone?

Google is opeing its first retail store in New York City. Google betting on in-store retail at a time such businesses are still reeling from closures. Google plans to launch its first brick-and-mortar store this summer in Chelsea, where it has been steadily growing its office presence during the past decade. Hello, #digital moving to #retail – a trend we have seen a…

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Google gets scary real with lifelike 3D Video.

New signs of life appeared in Google’s AR/VR efforts Tuesday, at its first I/O conference in two years, when the company revealed an immersive video conferencing tool called Project Starline. Sitting inside a special booth, people can have a 3D videoconference with someone in another part of the country so realistically it looks as if they’re sitting…

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(Car) Window to the World.

Innovative project by Toyota Motor Corporation that uses #augmentedreality to turn car windows into a display interacting with the environment outside, educating, entertaining and providing information about objects and animals as they pass. Designed by Toyota in partnership with the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. #wakeupimagine #ar #vr #interactiondesign #innovation

Google goes deep with Shopify.

S H O P I F Y x G O O G L E – Google is deepening its partnership with Shopify by letting the company’s more than 1 million merchants make their products more discoverable in Google Search and elsewhere. And as it should … Shopify’s stock rose following the announcement. Google and Shopify are increasingly competing against Amazon in…

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Brands gone wild. The NFT bandwagon.

A couple of months after #NFTs caught the public imagination with the $69 million #Beeple Christy’s auction, it has been fascinating to see how brands have scrambled to jump on the NFT bandwagon. Everyone is talking about NFTs but very few people understand them. Luxury #brands are minting virtual sneakers, QSR brands are out minting pixelated pizza and taco GIFs, and even…

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Next stop. SpaceX ticket to Mars.

Check out this creative mixed reality #prototype by AR Media Labs UAE. Your biometric SpaceX ticket to Mars is one step closer to reality. Now boarding. Wonder how the Aeroplan mileage is going to work? #wakeupimagine #ar #vr #creativity #Mars H/T Pascal BORNET

Elon flops. Tesla not accepting Bitcoin.

Elon Musk, who has become a volatile force in the #cryptocurrency universe, said Tesla is no longer accepting Bitcoin Inc. as payment for purchases of its #electricvehicles owing to the excessive amount of carbon-based energy it uses. Bitcoin plunged following his comments. The sudden move is a curious one since Tesla’s recent $1.5 billion Bitcoin investment triggered a surge in the currency’s value. It also…

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Rubbee. From zero to eBike in seconds.

Amazing innovation – transforming ordinary #bikes into e-bikes in seconds by startup Rubbee. Read more here: https://www.rubbee.co.uk/ #wakeupimagine#ebikes#innovation#technology#startups

Cryptopunks x Christie’s = $17M

A lot of 9 CryptoPunks portraits ended up selling for just under $17 million in a Christie’s auction Tuesday evening, marking another substantial moment for #NFT art sales. The lot of pixelated portraits were from the collection of the NFT platform’s co-creators Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The CryptoPunks platform is one of the first NFT projects on the Ethereum#blockchain. Back in…

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