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Metaverse ROI: Navigating Virtual Realms for Success

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Metaverse ROI: Navigating Virtual Realms for Success

Charles Hambro, CEO of Geeiq, tells LS:N Global that achieving success in the metaverse is all about setting up a strategic data-centric approach t...
Technology : Metaverse : Virtual
Five Future Paths for Metaverse Beauty

Big Ideas

Five Future Paths for Metaverse Beauty

Shifting focus from e-commerce to experience marketing, beauty firms are seizing upon the metaverse to educate, experiment and boost interaction.
Beauty : Wellness : Metaverse
Why retail requires long-term metaverse strategies

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Why retail requires long-term metaverse strategies

Justin Hochberg, CEO of Virtual Brand Group, explains the untapped benefits of the metaverse, from R&D to phygital marketing and avatar behaviour a...
Retail : Metaverse : Virtual
Four Seasons’ phygital meetings connect global attendees

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Four Seasons’ phygital meetings connect global attendees

International hotel chain Four Seasons is enhancing meeting and event experiences for its guests, catering for both in-person and remote attendees.
Travel : Hospitality : Hotel
Airbnb gets inclusive with neurodiverse virtual experiences

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Airbnb gets inclusive with neurodiverse virtual experiences

Online travel platform Airbnb is expanding its virtual experiences to cater for the needs of neurodiverse guests.
Virtual : Travel : Hospitality
A socially-distant dating kit to enhance virtual connections

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A socially-distant dating kit to enhance virtual connections

Digital dating app Hinge has launched a virtual date night kit to elevate inter-Covid courtship.
Dating : App : Virtual
Alternet Economies

Macro Trends

Alternet Economies

A technological counter-culture is decentralising capitalism, reforming the internet and powering new value frontiers for creators, consumers and b...
Technology : FinTech : Internet
L'Oréal’s fictional eco-activist targets Chinese shoppers

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L'Oréal’s fictional eco-activist targets Chinese shoppers

L’Oréal Group is introducing its first virtual idol in China in a bid to connect with new and younger audiences.
Beauty : Virtual : Influencer
A virtual house imagining Black family life in 2025

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A virtual house imagining Black family life in 2025

The Obsidian Experience is a new virtual interior design concept set in Oakland in the year 2025, reflecting a future vision for domestic settings ...
Architecture : Society : Interior
The Campaign: Wild Detectives’ bookshop tourism

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The Campaign: Wild Detectives’ bookshop tourism

While travel operators faced uncertainty in planning campaigns, Wild Detectives positioned its Texas bookstore as a travel agency.
Retail : Travel : Hospitality
This phygital food festival gamifies happy hour

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This phygital food festival gamifies happy hour

Alcohol brand Tiger Beer’s month-long food fiesta is an immersive online experience that aims to digitise street food for the Covid-19 consumer.
Food : Drink : Technology
Ikea’s phygital window display features a CGI influencer

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Ikea’s phygital window display features a CGI influencer

Virtual influencer Imma stars in Ikea’s new phygital Happiness at Home store window display.
Ar : Influencer : Furniture
The Factory is a new phygital venue in Fortnite

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The Factory is a new phygital venue in Fortnite

Creative venue The Factory is opening a digital version in Fortnite, allowing players to tour the building virtually before its physical opening.
Architecture : Media : Gaming
Thin Air is a world-first virtual trade show

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Thin Air is a world-first virtual trade show

Thin Air is the outdoor industry’s first fully interactive brand-to-media trade show.
Retail : Outdoors : Online Shopping
Club Quarantäne is a virtual sanctuary for isolated clubbers

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Club Quarantäne is a virtual sanctuary for isolated clubbers

Club Quarantäne is a live-streamed virtual club delivered by Invisible Hand on Resident Advisor.
Media : Online : Online Shopping
Covid-19: Why this bookshop is now a travel agent

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Covid-19: Why this bookshop is now a travel agent

With its bookstore and café closed, Wild Detectives is positioning its range of books as immersive travel experiences.
Retail : Hospitality : Travel
Adidas’ smart insole shapes virtual skills

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Adidas’ smart insole shapes virtual skills

Adidas and EA Sports have joined forces on a phygital innovation that enables players to affect their virtual performance through real-world play.
Adidas : Sports : Techology
Foam Studio animates colour in the digital realm

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Foam Studio animates colour in the digital realm

For the second time, conscious chemical company BASF has tasked the studio with creatively imagining future automotive colour trends.
Automotive : Design : Technology
Mirrored Realms

Design Directions

Mirrored Realms

As reality becomes more programmable, a visual aesthetic is being defined that reflects the artificiality of the virtual world alongside our everyd...
Programmable Realities : Immaterial Fashion : Virtual
Fred Perry’s lookbook is inspired by Google Street View

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Fred Perry’s lookbook is inspired by Google Street View

Shoppers can explore the Fred Perry and Raf Simons collection on anonymous models in a virtual suburb.
Fashion : Retail : Virtual
Digital society

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Digital society

Helsinki – A new exhibition examines the impact of digital technology on the world from a human-interest angle.
Digital Technology : Video Games : Neo-kinship
Shopping spree

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Shopping spree

Global – OKgrl 2.0 features a 360-degree interactive fantasy shopping mall created for Nicopanda.
OKgrl : Gen Viz : Netstalgia
Autonomous fashion

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Autonomous fashion

Berlin – Art collective Zeitguised has created a living, breathing collection of garments as part of an experimental investigation into the fu...
Zeitguised : Superimposed Void : Henrik Mauler
Virtual pop-up

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Virtual pop-up

Sweden – Outdoor brand Peak Performance is challenging customers to go outdoors and hunt down deals in a virtual pop-up experience. 
Digital : Virtual : Gamification
New York Fashion Week spring/summer 2015: Retail and innovation

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New York Fashion Week spring/summer 2015: Retail and innovation

New York Fashion Week is about more than just the catwalk. LS:N Global looks at the week’s innovation highlights beyond the runways.
NYFW : New York Fashion Week : Gareth Pugh
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