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  • Facebook’s vision of the metaverse has a critical flaw

    VentureBeat

    The “metaverse” is back in the headlines. Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook “will effectively transition from … being a social media company to being a metaverse company.” Facebook plans to create “an embodied internet” — powered by its Oculus headsets and bridging the company’s platforms in virtual space. And Facebook is not alone, as Epic Games, Disney, and other corporations are also investing billions in their virtual worlds….

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  • Healthier Buildings Emerge Out of the Pandemic

    GlobeSt

    The pandemic has left its thumbprint on commercial real estate design. It has accelerated already budding design trends, like flexible use, natural lighting and ventilation systems, but the pandemic has also catalyzed new design concepts that help to combat the risk of viral infection.

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  • NFTs are the revenue model for metaverse, crypto veteran says

    Bloomberg

    William Quigley, a co-founder of stablecoin Tether and a pioneer in the cryptocurrency space, sees the metaverse as a huge economic force that’s going to change people’s lives significantly in coming years.

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  • Delta Disrupts Office Return Plans. What Now?

    GlobeSt

    Labor Day was supposed to herald the return to the office. But did anyone say which year? The Delta variant has turned the Covid-19 recovery story on its head. The 7-day average number of new cases on September 1, 2021— more than 503,000 — was four times the amount on the same day the year before, according to Oxford University’s Our World in Data site.

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  • Digital Security in an Ever-Changing Landscape Trailer

    CREtech

    Don Goldstein of 5Q Cyber Security addresses the importance of digital security, adopting a ‘zero trust’ model, and what’s next for cybersecurity. Start your free 30-day trial to get full access videos like this.

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  • ‘Investors Are Finished With Covid’: CRE Valuations Weather The Pandemic

    Bisnow

    Commercial property values are more resilient nationwide than headlines about the coronavirus and the unsettled state of the world might otherwise indicate, valuation experts say.

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  • With a $2.5B valuation, Side prepares to take on NYC. Will agents buy in?

    The Real Deal

    Side has had an explosive year.  In March, the white-label brokerage’s $150 million Series D propelled its valuation above $1 billion. A few months later, that valuation more than doubled to $2.5 billion after Tiger Global Management, the world’s most active venture investor in the second quarter, led a $50 million round. …

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  • Landmark London Building Uses 3-D Visualization Technology to Showcase the Potential of Unfinished Office Space

    Swivel

    Swivel, the Design Experience Platform that transforms the way commercial real estate is marketed, leased, and planned, today announced its first customer deployment in the UK. Black Mountain Partners, a London-based property development and investment company, has deployed Swivel’s Interactive Space Showcase to provide immersive virtual tours for more than 65,000 sq. ft. of office space at historic 68 King William St. in London. Black Mountain Partners and its broker partners at Sa…

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  • Proptech Startup Raises $20M To Make Multifamily Development Process Faster

    Bisnow

    As cities across the U.S. look to build more multifamily to address housing shortages, one growing startup aims to make the development process much faster. Juno, a San Francisco-based proptech company founded in 2019, announced Thursday it raised a Series A round of $20M to help scale its product that aims to make housing development more efficient….

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  • Squad Mobility eyes shared platforms as target for its compact solar electric quadricycle

    TechCrunch

    Squad Mobility’s vision of the perfect urban vehicle is a low-cost EV equipped with solar panels, swappable batteries and enough zip and range in its diminutive 6.5-foot package to meet the needs of city drivers. The early-stage Dutch startup, which recently revealed the final design of its quadricycle, is now assembling working prototypes in Breda, the Netherlands. Squad has said the vehicle will have a base price of €5,750 ($6,790), excluding taxes. That price goes up if buyers want to add fe…

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