Remember Glue Collaboration? The cool head-and-torso avatars that made the metaverse seem like it was filled with legless players off a tabletop “foosball” field1? The parent company of Glue has now filed for bankruptcy. A letter from the CEO, Jussi Havu, explains that without a definite solution in sight the Glue service may be (soon) […]

In this episode, we embark on an exciting journey into interactive entertainment, where gaming, esports, and marketing create an immersive digital universe. We explore how the digital media space is changing the way we game, compete, and socialize. Our experts discuss the impact of extending the experience outside of the game. The blurring of lines […]

Finalists for LAVNCH [CODE]’s 3rd Annual Out of This World Experiences Awards (OoTWEA) have been chosen and it’s time for you, our readers, to choose the winners. Click here to vote for your three favorite installations. The three installations with the most votes will be crowned the winners with two installations being named runners-up. The winning […]

On Wednesday, Dec. 13, LAVNCH [CODE] will host its first-ever chain reaction event where a panel of experts will dig into everything you need to know about the metaverse. The event will begin with Megan A. Dutta, LAVNCH [CODE]’s editor-in-chief, giving a brief intro and then posing a question to an industry expert. The expert will then […]

Over the past two months, I have written about the metaverse and cryptocurrency. The next logical topic of this new digital world is the NFT. What is an NFT, and will you as an AV professional ever have to deal with them? Let’s get started with the first question. NFT stands for non-fungible token. That […]

Last month, I wrote about the metaverse. As I mentioned in the article, I am not an expert in the metaverse, but I need to better understand it as we hear more and more about it in our industry. The same is true about cryptocurrency. There is a general assumption that the way things will […]

In IT (and therefore AV as well), we certainly don’t have a shortage of our acronyms and buzzwords. When Meta, formerly known as Facebook, changed its name in October, the newest buzzword, “metaverse,” exploded into our feeds. We have heard the word countless times, but what the heck does it really mean? What, after all, […]