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    Why The Tech Giants Want to Buy the Metaverse…

    We make magic here I’m talking the homegrown and handmade sort of magic. Stories that cast a spell. Art that transports you to another reality. Music that picks you up and puts you back together after a lousy day. The kind of magic made when ordinary people with no power or influence do powerful things. Why they’ll fail Biting into homegrown tomato—one carefully tended and left on the vine to go ripe in the July heat, one so fragrant you can breathe in the flavor, one fattened on summer rain—is an experience that will turn you away from the pale, fragrance-free, flavorless things produced on a factory farm. Art needs…

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    Character Building: Discovering the Hidden You.

    Avatars aren’t merely meant to be a photographic replication of who you are in real life. Just as an abstract painting depicts a mood or emotion in line and color, an avatar depicts a personality–the inner you. Or if you use virtual to inspire or contribute to storytelling it gives you tools to think about your characters at a deep level. You build an avatar from a shape, skin, eye color, hair style, clothing style that tell you as much about who a character is as those elements tell you about a person in real life. Or maybe the better way to think of it is they tell you about…