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Banjo is a mobile social discovery app that aggregates photos, statuses and tweets tagged with locations. But here's one way Banjo could shine: It's launching a new "trending places" feature, where users can quickly navigate to any place in the world where a flurry of updates are being posted. You can imagine this being useful for planned and unplanned major events, from festivals to natural disasters.

Cool blend of digital/real worlds

Lego Fussball replays of soccer matches

Stat on how the World Cup is being watched 48% more this year than last

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AFK's app makes it possible for gamers to send in-game messages to friends from their mobile phones. Basically, though online games typically have to be accessed from a laptop/desktop, the AFK app makes the chat functions of games compeltely mobile. The company is predicting with the rise of app's like World of Warcraft's Auction House for iPhone, MMOs will look for new ways to detach functions from the gaming environment so users can have access from anywhere. Interesting marketing opportunity: where in-game advertising may have been awkward, advertising on top of game services (such as chat) may be more palatable.

Interesting applications of augmented reality in the art world.

Too soon?

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Preparing for a AR/VR world.

Virtual Market 4, or V-Ket 4 for short, is a Japanese expo that spans 36 separate worlds contained within the VRChat ecosystem. Its primary purpose is to sell virtual apparel and avatars, like if shopping for a new "skin" in Fortnite took place inside a sprawling virtual mall. Given the scale of the event, it's also drawn the attention from big brands to create an almost CES-like feel.