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How will metaverse change the shopping experience?

Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on his efforts to take metaverse to the next level, despite investors' pessimism. So where does metaverse stand now? And how it may change your shopping experience?

Translucia, Sunovatech India partners to build metaverse, talent ecosystem

Translucia, the metaverse developer subsidiary of T&B Media Global (Thailand), and Sunovatech India, an immersive and extended reality company, on Friday announced a series of initiatives to build a metaverse and talent ecosystem.

Facebook announces 2022 Community Accelerator participants in India

Four-month programme provides selected community leaders of Facebook groups with training, mentorship and funding

Facebook selects 15 Indian online communities for accelerator programme

These community leaders will also get an opportunity to collaborate with advocates and other leaders in the community-building ecosystem to bring their ideas to life

Mark Zuckerberg asks for 'patience' as Meta's costs spook investors

Zuckerberg said he is confident that Meta's largest bets in areas such as short-form video, business messaging and the metaverse were headed in the right direction

Meta plans to launch consumer-grade virtual reality headset next year

Recently, Meta had unveiled a VR headset Meta Quest Pro that was packed with features like full-colour mixed reality and was priced at $1,500

Meta misses profit expectations as Q3 sales slip 4%, net income falls 52%

In the third quarter, Meta was buffeted by a widespread ad-spending downturn, posting a 4 per cent year-over-year revenue loss, while missing Wall Street estimates on the bottom line

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg should focus on US midterms, not the Metaverse

Meta CEO Zuckerberg could start by doing what thousands of managers before him have done, and reconsider his tasks

WhatsApp outage across India, user unable to send and receive messages

People around the world are reporting problems sending and receiving messages on the popular chat app WhatsApp. According to Downdetector, which tracks outage reports, people started reporting problems around 3 a.m. EDT. A WhatsApp spokesperson said the company is aware that some people are having trouble sending messages and is working to restore service as quickly as possible. Meta, previously known as Facebook, bought WhatsApp in 2014. It's wildly popular especially outside of the US, where many people use it for everyday communication.

Meta to introduce Facebook's bitmoji-style avatars to WhatsApp: Reports

Social media giant Facebook's Bitmoji-style avatars, which earlier invaded Instagram and Messenger, are now also coming to Whatsapp.According to The Verge, a report from WABetaInfo suggests that WhatsApp is rolling out support for customizable avatars in the latest 2.22.23.9 beta on Android, but only for some users.Those with access to the feature will see a new 'Avatar' category in their settings menu that they can use to customize the digital version of themselves.Similar to Meta's other apps, WhatsApp will then generate a sticker pack with the avatar in various poses, which users can use to express themselves when messaging family and friends.This feature was first spotted by WABetaInfo last month but now it's actually rolling out to users. It's unclear when WhatsApp will roll out the feature to all users on Android, or when it plans on bringing the feature to iOS, reported The Verge.Meta first introduced avatars on Messenger and the News Feed in 2019 before they became available ..

RIL becomes first Indian company to post earnings call on metaverse

The RIL metaverse was produced in partnership with GMetri, a no-code metaverse creation platform. One doesn't need to wear an AR/VR headgear to access it

Instagram introduces new feature to protect users from abuse: Details here

The company is starting to test automatically turning on Hidden Words for Creator accounts

Meta starts ad campaign against Apple's iMessage to promote Whatsapp

Recently, the Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp had released the ability to add up to 1,024 participants to groups, for some beta testers

Flipkart unveils Flipverse, a virtual shopping experience in metaverse

The e-commerce firm has partnered with Web3 entertainment firm eDAO for the initiative where consumers can discover products in photorealistic virtual destinations and shop on Flipkart App

Flipkart partners with eDAO for virtual shopping experience in metaverse

Homegrown e-commerce platform Flipkart announced that it has partnered with Polygon-incubated organisation eDAO to launch a metaverse space, Flipverse

WhatsApp shares protocols for platform users to prevent account from ban

According to WhatsApp's monthly user safety report, over 2.3 million Indian accounts were banned in the month of August this year

India and the industrial metaverse

The images inside the metaverse can be interactive and powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing, while being connected by 5G speeds.

Meta's social VR platform Horizon Worlds struggling to woo users

Meta (formerly Facebook) is reportedly struggling to gain and keep users on its social virtual reality (VR) platform called Horizon Worlds - its biggest bet to fulfil its $10 billion metaverse dream.

After US, Instagram brings age verification options to India: How it works

The new options enable age verification on Instagram through supported documents or recorded selfie video. In lieu of new options, the previous social vouching option has been deprecated

Microsoft brings animated avatars to 'Teams' software in metaverse push

Earlier this week, Microsoft and Meta partnered to bring Microsoft Teams to the Quest headsets soon