April 2022
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🖌️ Neon.page themes are coming

Do you enjoy getting creative and expressing yourself and your style? Great!

Then you will like this newest addition to your neon.pages! More colors, more fonts, more customization. And the best part: The 40+ themes will be free 🌈

Expect them to be rolled out next week. You heard it here first 👀

✍🏻 Marketing in the Metaverse

Passively consuming content was yesterday. Today we want fun, engaging storytelling and interactive experiences. Are you ready to fulfill all those needs?

If not, consider this blog post your wake-up call. Metaverse marketing is around the corner, and it will demand everything from you 💦

🌌 Working for the Metaverse

In this collaborative blog post for Nextion.io, our COO Jacques tackled the questions: What is the Metaverse all about, and how can I get a job in it?

As so often in life, you have to understand the background and basis before starting in a new industry. And that is precisely what this article is for.

Whether you are looking for a new profession or your first job, this article can help you to focus on the right skills and toolsets 🧰

dall-e 2.0

🎨 Will this AI kill your creativity?

We love new technologies that make our lives easier and increase productivity. But not at any price ⛔

Joao discusses the Dall-E 2.0 technology in his latest video and asks critical but fundamental questions. Check out the video and make up your own mind whether this technology is as powerful as it seems.

🤖 More on OpenAI's AI image generator

If our video and this mind-boggling technology got you hooked: Good! 

This article right here is a good starting point to find additional information and examples of Dall-E. We all must get to grips with tools like Dall-E and GPT-3. Otherwise, they will outgrow us faster than we would like 🖥️

     web2 & web3 news

💰 Elon Musk buys Twitter

How could we not cover this topic? You probably read this headline a billion times by now. Yet we wanted to share an article that puts the news in a bigger picture and offers you some background information and a timeline with it.

Because, after all, this will be one of the biggest and maybe the most important tech deal we have seen on this planet.

🤳 Meta provides new instruments to Spark AR

Our most recent blog post talks about experiences and engaging content. And one part focuses especially on AR & VR experiences. So we're not surprised that news keeps coming in about Spark AR and Meta's intentions to push further in this direction. 

AR content will play a significant role in winning the next digital connectivity and competition phase. It might be time for you to adjust to this fact, too  🤔

🤳 Snap announces mini drone Pixy

Say hello to Pixy, the self-proclaimed friendliest flying camera. The pocket-sized drone will be your free-flying sidekick for all your adventures.

What makes the drone special is the absence of SD cards and controllers. You can tell Pixy to either orbit around you, float or follow you as you run around - all by itself 🛸

For the time being, the drone will be on sale for around $230 in the USA and France.

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