Waze for bicycles

We’ve all heard of the Metaverse by now, right? It’s pretty much like if the internet was its own universe that you could access via VR, and where you can buy virtual property connected to real addresses, visit Santa, and host your own immersive cultural experiences.

Mark Zuckerberg has gone all in on it. Meta spent $10 billion alone on its metaverse division in 2021 — $8 billion more than what it paid for Oculus.

Your own metaverse: Billionaires get to have all the fun. So, you don’t have $10M to lose, but you still wonder what it would be like to see your brand or company in the metaverse. Metaverse Web Showcase launched today with a new way to interact with the curious, virtual world by bringing it right into your website. Grab a snippet of code, paste it into your site, and *boom* you just created your own universe.

What can you do with it? You can build a multiuser 3D space for presentations, testimonials, and CTAs. If you’re creative enough, you could make your site into an art gallery (Louvre 2.0 anyone? 👀). One cool feature is Dolby.io Spatial Audio Chat to give visitors more realistic-feeling communication based on their location in the space.

The makers claim that Metaverse Web Showcase can increase engagement, enhance site experience, and most importantly, increase conversion.

• Whether it’s The White Lotus finale or a cheesy Christmas movie, Minu connects to your streaming accounts and lets you host or join watch parties.

• Felvin helps no-code developers create AI apps and put them on an SEO-optimized gallery for discovery.

• Notaku lets you create docs websites, blogs, help desks, changelogs, and roadmap websites, using Notion as CMS.

• Pointz is like Waze for bikes. The safety-focused app for urban bike and scooter riders uses existing data sets and crowdsourcing to produce the best routes.