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AI platform Villa offers new education options to students
Villa, a virtual reality platform that is used by 700,000 people worldwide, is launching an avatar based on Generative AI. This AI assistant is equipped with extraordinary abilities to teach users and guide them through the expanding virtual environment.

Villa Metaverse creation platform at 500,000 active users
RealVR.ai is unveiling Villa, an immersive collaboration platform where professionals, content creators, gamers, consumers, and organizations, can rapidly build immersive Metaverse environments using intuitive and powerful tools. At the touch of a button, users engage with others in these Metaverses without real-world physical limitations.

Israeli VR company set on competing with world's tech giants
With TV show Westworld serving as his inspiration, realvr.ai CEO Ofer Baharav is working on VR interfaces that might give Apple and Microsoft some stiff competition over who will control the virtual world over next few decades

פלטפורמת ה-VR הישראלית שנותנת פייט לענקיות הטכנולוגיה
כמעט חצי מיליון משתמשים הצטרפו עד כה לפלטפורמת וילה, שמאפשרת לבלות, לשחק ולעבוד בעולמות וירטואליים תלת-ממדיים. המנכ"ל הישראלי, עופר בהרב, מספר בריאיון ל-ynet על ההשראה מסדרת הטלוויזיה "ווסטוורלד", על הציפייה לקסדה העתידית של אפל ועל היתרונות של ירושלים הווירטואלית: "במציאות מדומה אתה יכול לנחות על הר הבית בלי שמישהו יגיד לך לרדת"

Villa on Meta Quest crosses 400,000 user milestone
Villa is steadily gaining numbers, having just passed 400,000 active users. It remains firmly in the 20 Most Popular Apps on the Meta Quest, by offering a user-friendly design and not requiring any coding skill.

🦸Worldwide Happy Hour Fridays 12pm pacific @ Villa HQ! Come network with fellow Metaverse professionals in a fun atmosphere🦸
Villa is a Metaverse Terraforming Platform for professionals, creatives, and NFT fans, where you can create virtual worlds with zero code or design skills, customize in a few clicks, then collaborate in them! New user? We're excited to meet you in person. Choose "NFT fan" when signing up after installing Villa on your Quest 2 or above for your free trial, then follow directions for account creation prompted from the headset! Existing user? We can't wait to meet you! To join the Happy Hour: When you launch the app you're in the lobby in the Alps. From there, choose Villa HQ under the Networking tab in the tray. Don't forget to customize your full body avatar in advance from your account at app.villa.rocks > hamburger > Customize full body avatar. If you're new, tutorials are waiting for you under A>Home>Settings>Tutorials. Want to stay in touch or have technical or creative questions or ideas? Reach us promptly on Discord https://discord.com/invite/vjkxT3vMTR

🦸🦹 Happy Hour Fridays 12pm pacific @ Villa HQ! 🦸🦸 New and existing guests invited! Come meet us in person! 🦹🦹
Villa is a Metaverse & NFT collaboration platform for professionals, creatives, and NFT fans, where you can create virtual worlds with zero code or design skills, customize in a few clicks, then collaborate in them! New user? We're excited to meet you in person. Existing user? We can't wait to meet you! New here? Choose "NFT fan" when signing up after installing Villa on your Quest 2 or above, then follow directions for account creation prompted from the headset! To join the Happy Hour: When you launch the app you're in the lobby in the Alps. From there, choose Villa HQ under the Networking tab in the tray. Don't forget to customize your full body avatar in advance from your account at app.villa.rocks > hamburger > Customize full body avatar. If you're new, tutorials are waiting for you under A>Home>Settings>Tutorials. Want to stay in touch or have technical or creative questions or ideas? If you can't make this weekly event, reach us promptly by joining on Discord https://discord.com/invite/vjkxT3vMTR

🦸🦸️ Hey superhuman! Tired of IRL or Zoom meetings? Come discover Villa, a Metaverse Terraforming Platform
🎇🚀 Build beautiful NFT exhibits and virtual worlds in a click and bring your colleagues to hang out - no code, design, or NFT skills needed. Simply install Villa and follow headset instructions to create your account. During onboarding choose 'NFT fan' for an extended free trial. Come take meetings to a new level for the best Happy Hours, Offsites, Roadmapping, 1:1s, Parties, gallery and museum tech, or arrange a networking event for your company or team. Note: Beautiful, inspiring exhibits will be approved for sharing publicly on a rolling basis - apply in-app from moderator settings!

RealVR.ai introduces Villa - Immersive Team Collaboration Platform - The real future of work isn't just virtual -- it's virtual reality
MENLO PARK, Calif., Aug. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtual Reality -- COVID-19 suddenly made remote work the "new normal" for millions of businesses. And there's no going back: According to FlexJobs, two-thirds of surveyed employees want to continue working remotely. So, how do you foster a sense of culture, productivity, and engagement among distributed teams?

Villa's immersive collaboration in VR as HRTech, on Recruiting Daily
Welcome to the Use Case Podcast, episode 108. This week we have storytelling about Villa with Ofer Baharav. During this episode, Ofer and I talk about how practitioners make the business case or the use case for purchasing Villa.
Villa, immersive collaboration in VR platform, trailer: #Oculus #Quest #SaaS #VR
We are thrilled to have launched 😮 Villa - immersive team collaboration platform to the Facebook #Oculus Quest Store today. As workforces around the world come to expect experiences that are far more powerful than IRL meetings, here's a refreshing, fun, and inspiring way to meet while working and enjoying all at the same time.

Upcoming panel on #AI ✨ and its impact on the #futureofsaas 🌄 and the future of work in virtual reality for Villa - immersive team collaboration
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Why Tech Employers Should Stop Buying Toilet Paper
2020 was a watershed year for knowledge workers worldwide. Driven by survival and necessity, tech that was with us for decades like videoconferencing suddenly mainstreamed to the point that even the Late Majority started using it properly by staring at the front camera...

Future of SaaS Festival
Mark your calendar to join Ofer's conversation about the future of SaaS and AI on <https://festival.futureofsaas.io/talks/the-impact-of-ai-on-saas/>
VR Team Collaboration Platform, future of SaaS: #futureofwork #VR #AI
Buckle up, reality just leaped to 2030 on Villa This is all yours! Enterprise SaaS will never be the same Get your teams on to the future of team collaboration and join the fun. VR collaboration for professionals will never be the same.
Massive leap for enterprise SaaS 💫 over RealVR / Villa: #futureofwork #VR #AI
Massive leap for enterprise SaaS 💫 over Villa - immersive team collaboraiton platform in VR!. A creativity immersive team collaboration platform where you're the magician! Mold your world in any way you want. Search, find, and modulate it. #futureofwork #VR #AI

Ilan Kasan at Exceed.ai by Product Nation
We chat with\_Ilan Kasan\_about hybrid office work, then how\_Exceed.ai\_handles touch points from early customer interest through to an enterprise purchase, essentially replacing SDRs with AI. Lots of gems from this seasoned entrepreneur. Towards the end a surprise startup is birthed in less than a minute.
#innovation #vrexperience #techinnovation
Recently chatted with CEO\_[Ofer Baharav](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAAIvUYB-FQmYeJmqktW1DMquYAcfjZpFAs)\_in \"Villa\"... check out the excerpt below...\n\n1\\. AMAZING VR experience, recorded in the Dolomites (Northern Italy)\n2\\. Revolution brought about due to the pandemic, WFH is NOT going away\n3\\. Instead of going back to 2019, corporates need to find a better way - introduce better tools than Zoom, Meet, etc.\n4\\. Bring in unique, immersive, relaxing experiences to work place.\n
#leadership #VR #postcorona
Message of hope for a digitally accelerated post-Corona world on a VRCast (VR Podcast) over RealVR / Villa hosted by Veena Mistry - Success Coach, founder, Founder of\_Wibmo

Episode 1 of the Results Mastery Coach VRCast (VR Podcast)
Veena Mistry is the founder of a fintech company Wibmo that sold for millions and today she works as an executive coach and offers her practice over Villa. She started a VRCast (VR Villa Podcast), and here's her first one, interviewing Ofer Baharav, founder at RealVR/Villa <https://youtu.be/V_lti2igBEI> - this takes place fully over Villa, where Ofer speaks about controversial issues revolving around the #futureofwork
#virtualreality #oculusquest2 #productmanagement
Villa is a creativity platform, where meetings + work blend into pure engagement bliss and\_#fun.\_#FOMO? Reach out to get onboarded.
#futureofwork problems
When your digitally accelerated team throws a beer at you and steals your cigar in #virtualreality