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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a digital designer clothing store called the “Meta Avatars Store.” Zuckerberg made the announcement during an Instagram Live with Instagram’s vice president of fashion partnerships Eva Chen. It’s unknown how many people will actually want to fork out money to dress up their avatars in designer clothing, but Zuckerberg sees the new fashion clothing options as a way for users to express themselves via their avatars. The new…

The metaverse may not really yet, but Mark Zuckerberg already to sell users on designer fashion for their metaverse avatars. Meta announced that it’s opening an Avatars Store where users can purchase outfits for their avatars on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. The new looks include designer duds from Balenciaga, Prada and Thom Browne and the company expects to add more designers over time. Zuckerberg and Eva Chen, Meta’s VP of Fashion Partnerships, announced the new store on an Instagram Live they described as the…

If you’ve ever thought, “I would like my digital avatar to wear poorly rendered designer clothing,” I have excellent news for you. Meta is launching an online store where Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger users can purchase digital clothing for their avatar. The first brands on the store are Prada, Balenciaga, and Thom Browne, and clothes include a motocross outfit, a logo hoodie, and suits. In a Facebook post, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said more brands would be added soon. “Digital goods will be an important way to…

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The first trailer for Black Adam gave a glimpse into Dwayne Johnson turning into a new superhero. DC Films’ upcoming comic book adaptation is about an enslaved man who is reborn with the magical powers of gods. The action-packed trailer starts with Johnson as Black Adam showing off his flying abilities and super-strength and saying, “I kneel before no one.” Pierce Brosnan’s Dr Fate later tells Black Adam, “My vision has shown me the future. You have two choices: You can be the destroyer of this world, or you can be its…

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Image via 20th Century Studios Avatar: The Way of Water will have a menagerie of new water creatures, three of which have been described in detail by producer Jon Landau. In an interview with Empire Magazine, Landau provided some specs on the critters that you may have seen in Avatar 2‘s teaser trailer or on Disney World’s “Flight Of Passage” ride. The most astounding of these is the cetaceous tulkun, which Jake fist bumps in the trailer. Landau described it as 300-feet long and extremely intelligent:…

In Meta’s Horizon Worlds, a player’s avatar is force-fed a bottle of “vodka.” Report writers noted that it taking place virtually did not make it feel any less invasive.Screenshot: SumOfUs VideoIt took less than an hour for one researcher studying Meta’s titular metaverse to be “virtually raped” after putting on the VR headset for the first time. After days of witnessing and experiencing rampant conspiracy theories, sexual harassment, racism, and homophobia, writers of a recent report said the tech giant is entirely…

Anyone who’s ever had access to an unfortunately placed mirror will know that sex rarely looks good. But you would think Hollywood might be able to make it appear so. Actors are hot. Editing means no awkward position reshuffles. Cinematographers make lighting soft and flattering.But so often it feels as though the makers of MILF and “I’ve been a bad girl” cheerleader porn provide a more nuanced presentation of sex than some of the most talented directors out there.To make you feel better about your presumably non-existent…

The opening of Abba’s Voyage show is undoubtedly an event – even the band’s most famously publicity-shy member, Agnetha Fältskog, is in attendance – but it’s one accompanied by a genuine sense of mystery. If the mystery isn’t as all-encompassing as that which surrounded the first night of Kate Bush’s return to live performance in 2014 – you at least have a pretty good idea in advance of what songs will be involved, which certainly wasn’t the case then – the question of precisely how Abba will be brought back to life…