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Macro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Pop Culture & Media

From immersive experiences to creator-driven content and innovative storytelling, pop culture and media innovators are reshaping how audiences enga...

Macro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Technology

Amid accelerating technologies, consumers are exploring divergent paths: from simplified ‘dumb tech’ for digital detox to AI-generated creativity a...

Technology : Health & Wellness : Society

News

Supernatural adds group-based workouts to VR fitness app

VR fitness platform Supernatural has introduced a new feature called Supernatural Together, where users participate in real-time group workouts.

VR Fitness App : Society : Technology

Macro Trends

The Synthocene Era: Merging Human and Machine Intelligence

As AI redefines our understanding of intelligence, we begin to enter The Synthocene Era, an age in which the lines between what is natural and what...

Technology : Artificial Intelligence : Society

News

Walmart engages Gen Z with immersive dorm shopping experience

Walmart has launched a new back-to-school shopping experience designed to captivate the Gen Z market.

Retail : Youth : Technology

Big Ideas

X-tended Retail

Virtual stores and Web3 brand experiences have matured since the post-pandemic metaverse boom. Now, they offer more integrated e-commerce opportuni...

Retail : Pop-culture & Media : Technology

Big Ideas

Brand Innovation Debrief: Walmart

With eyes on Gen Z consumers, a revived beauty aisle and an e-commerce strategy competing with Amazon, the 60-year-old discount department store gr...

Walmart : Retail Strategy : Gen Z

Macro Trends

Innovation Debrief 2024–2025

Discover the top 50 innovations shaping tomorrow in our Innovation Debrief 2024–2025.

Society : Design : Innovation

News

Walmart unveils 3D e-commerce platform for Gen Z shoppers

Walmart has launched a new e-commerce platform, Walmart Realm, featuring digital doubles of selected products available in real-life stores.

Retail : Technology : Gaming

Big Ideas

Six Smart Glasses Innovations With Eyes on the Future

Meet the innovators redefining the wearable tech market with smart glasses that blend fashion, functionality and AI to transform daily life with in...

Design : Technology : Smart Glasses

Big Ideas

BoF Professional Summit 2024: Innovating Fashion’s Tech Frontier

Pioneers from the fashion and technology sectors gathered in New York to explore the tech-led trends shaping fashion innovation.

Luxury : Technology : Events

Viewpoints

Creating a Metaverse Wine Community

Crurated is re-inventing the way collectors buy, store and enjoy wine – offering lessons in neo-collectorship for other sectors. Founder and CEO Al...

Wine : Crurated : NFT

Big Ideas

Mobile World Congress 2024: The Future of Connectivity

Industry leaders, emerging start-ups and tech giants gathered at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona to explore the future of connectivity in a...

Technology : Pop-culture & Media : Design

Viewpoints

Immersive Living Spaces

Design innovation consultant Matthew Cockerill talks to LS:N Global about how augmented and mixed reality will be at the core of the future of the ...

Mixed Reality : Smart Homes : Augmented Reality

News

Apple Vision Pro could revolutionise digital intimacy as we know it

The newly launched Apple Vision Pro spatial computer is shaking up digital interactions, and sex is no exception. Sex tech company Lovense has deve...

Technology : Health & Wellness : Society

Markets

Authentic Avatars

Meet the innovators adopting an intersectional approach to make digital avatars more authentic.

Gaming : Pop-culture & Media : Technology

News

Zoom to enhance video-calling experience with Apple Vision Pro

Zoom launched a new app on 2 February 2024 that is better suited to Apple’s new headset, Vision Pro, and allows users to represent themselves as di...

Technology : Pop-culture & Media : Workplace

Viewpoints

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

Podcasts

Podcast: Carlota Rodben on the Future of Luxury and Emotion

In a new episode of his Back to the F**kture podcast, The Future Laboratory co-founder Martin Raymond is joined by Beyond Luxury: The Promise of Em...

Podcast : Back To The F**kture : Luxury

News

The Campaign: Edu-verse

Elf Cosmetics has taken a leap into the metaverse with its inaugural Roblox experience Elf Up!, strategically addressing Gen Z’s entrepreneurial in...

Technology : Gaming : Metaverse

News

The Viewpoint: Black art matters in Web3

British artist Nubianizm explains how a new generation of Black visual artists find solace, community and compensation on the blockchain.

NFTs : Web3 : Identities

News

Elf launches educational Roblox experience to nurture Gen Z entrepreneurs

Elf Cosmetics has taken a leap into the metaverse with its inaugural Roblox experience Elf Up!, strategically addressing Gen Z’s entrepreneurial in...

Workplace : Youth : Beauty

News

Crate & Barrel is bringing the in-store shopping experience to customers at home

Furniture and home décor retailer Crate & Barrel has created an immersive digital version of its new flagship New York store.

Retail : Technology : Crate & Barrel

News

Hometopia lets adults live out their home-ownership dreams virtually

Hometopia is the latest video game aiming to give aspirational home-owners the chance to build their dream house as a tonic for shrinking home-owne...

Gaming : Home : Technology

News

Hitachi turns to the metaverse for next-generation workforce training

Multinational electronics giant Hitachi is using the metaverse to enable skilled manufacturing workers to run demonstrations on real-world equipment.

Technology : Metaverse : Craft