The latest update for Quest headsets lets you chill in a study with mountainside views https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/11/23020783/oculus-meta-quest-2-vr-headset-update-v39-studio-mountainside No. I mean it. It’s not acceptable. You can’t do that. You know that. You know better. Do you remember when we sat down together and wrote out the agreement? “Contract” we called it. You and I agreed on …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #213
Nike built a kids’ world in the metaverse for Air Max Day https://adage.com/article/creativity-news/nike-built-kids-world-metaverse-air-max-day/2408821 I suppose we’re lucky in my school. My mate’s school sponsor is some food company. You should see what they have to do. I mean lessons were bad enough when you only ever do stuff about whatever the sponsor’s into at the …
Dispatch from an advertising future #211
Mark Zuckerberg confirms NFTs are coming to Instagram https://www.engadget.com/mark-zuckerberg-confirms-nf-ts-are-coming-to-instagram-204435805.html She always loved this day. Every year. No-one else knew it was special. Just her and her phone. That alert. Her senses were flooded. On this day… There was never anything great, no award winners, but each was special. That day. Her pictures. Her friends’ pictures. …
Dispatch from an advertising future #209
IZEA Research Discovers 56% of Social Media Influencers Currently Participate in the Metaverse It’s a relief. I was tired. Always seen. Always acting. Always there. I loved it at the start. Who wouldn’t love the attention? Validation. And the money of course. Once they came calling… well that gives you energy but only for so …
Dispatch from an advertising future #208
From URL to IRL: how digitally native brands are harnessing the power of experience https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/url-irl-digitally-native-brands-harnessing-power-experience/1747644 She had to close her eyes. It was the only way to de-Augment, they said. Her dad still had his original headset and never stopped telling her about the first time he had experienced The Space. He sounded like Timothy …
Dispatch from an advertising future #203
The titans of the metaverse have a bandwidth issue https://www.ft.com/content/09d244a2-34a2-4f62-9747-5064d76cb286 When she stuttered, they laughed. That made the stutter worse. The more they piled on, surrounded her, sharing jokes, making memes the more she stuttered. It wasn’t her fault. She’d stuttered since she was a kid, in primary school, when she’d been playing with the …