TECHNOLOGIES
FitXR | March 21, 2023
FitXR, the VR fitness app with the most robust suite of offerings in the metaverse, today, announced new app integration with Strava, leading subscription platform at the center of connected fitness, to provide FitXR members a more comprehensive snapshot of their fitness journey through shared data. The partnership marks another major moment in FitXR’s commitment to providing an elevated and accessible digital experience that enables users to set and achieve fitness goals with ease.
“As more people look to take control of their health and fitness goals, there is a greater need for the ability to easily access and track key metrics across platforms,” said Kelly Cosentino, FitXR’s Head of Fitness. “FitXR’s integration with Strava provides our members with a holistic digital solution that easily fits into their lifestyles. We are excited to empower people at all levels of activity by helping them to account daily for every step, mile, elbow strike and dance move completed on any terrain – whether it be virtual or physical.”
Through FitXR’s free companion app, users are now able to seamlessly share their preferred data automatically after every workout with the Strava app. With this integration, FitXR users on the free companion app can seamlessly share their workouts to the Strava platform. With over 100 million users in 190 countries, Strava unlocks the ability for FitXR users to set goals, connect with an active community, and share their virtual activities with active people around the world.
The strategic partnership furthers FitXR’s mission to build the most immersive virtual fitness club experience that is designed to be customizable for individual preferences. Through increased data connectivity, FitXR users will be better positioned to get the most out of FitXR’s virtual offerings as well as the apps that motivate and inspire them to keep moving.
About FitXR
FitXR merges immersive VR with total body workouts designed by top fitness experts. Dedicated to making fitness more fun and accessible for everyone, FitXR offers classes within five distinct workout studios - Box, Dance, HIIT, Sculpt and Combat. FitXR provides a truly engaging, multiplayer experience along with constantly refreshed classes, environments and music. FitXR is available on Meta Quest 2.
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Mysten Labs | March 17, 2023
Mysten Labs, a web3 infrastructure company and initial developer of the Sui Layer 1 blockchain, today announced that it has partnered with BlueJay Games, a leading gaming studio. Through this partnership, BlueJay Games will launch Arcade Champion, a mobile Web3 arcade game, on Sui.
Arcade Champion is a reinvention of classic arcade games, integrating NFTs and play-to-own elements with familiar single-player and multiplayer competition-based minigames. The game features a hero-based system that uses NFTs to represent each player's unique characters. These NFTs are upgradeable, tradable, and fusible, and play a critical role in solo and dual modes of play, enabling players to accumulate bonuses and coins and achieve arcade supremacy.
The game will leverage Sui’s best-in-class technology and functionality, including its on-chain object and data storage, NFT-friendly infrastructure, and dynamic user-generated content support, providing a seamless and immersive gaming experience for players.
"We are excited to announce that BlueJay Games will be joining our growing community and building Arcade Champion on Sui,” said Evan Cheng, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mysten Labs. "By offering the Web3 space a reinvention of classic arcade games that mix in elements of NFTs and play-to-earn incentives, we believe Arcade Champion will effectively bridge Web2 and Web3 users and move the gaming industry forward. By combining this innovative game with Sui’s innovative gaming infrastructure, powered by the Move programming language, we look forward to providing a fun-first gameplay experience for players."
"Arcade Champions seeks to expand the world of Web3 gaming to the mass market with Sui. Arcade Champion, a mobile-first, hybrid casual game with play-to-own elements and Hero based NFTs,” said Michel Mailhot, Chief Executive Officer of BlueJay Games. “Sui is purpose-built for gaming, speed, and efficiency with differentiated NFT editing, evolving and merging capabilities. We look forward to taking advantage of the massive opportunity ahead.”
Arcade Champion will launch on the first day of Sui’s mainnet. Players will immediately have access to the game’s play-to-own elements and hero-based NFTs.
About Mysten Labs
Mysten Labs is a team of leading distributed systems, programming languages, and cryptography experts whose founders were senior executives of Meta’s Novi Research and lead architects of the Diem blockchain and Move programming language. The mission of Mysten Labs is to create foundational infrastructure for web3.
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Xsolla | March 16, 2023
Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, announced that it is going to represent innovative solutions for digital distribution, cloud gaming and different ways for the creation of P(I)ay with Mastercard at Game Developers Conference (GDC), in between 20-24 March 2023 at San Francisco, California.
Xsolla will host five informative speaking sessions on March 21, ending with President Chris Hewish's keynote speech. It would conduct these sessions in room #2024 in Moscone West. In addition, the attendees get to meet its experts and preview its latest products and solutions in its exhibition at Booth S549 South Hall, starting on March 22. It would increase the availability of games to players worldwide through its cloud gaming solution and give payment control to the player for their gaming experience. Previously, demo games were inaccessible to them in their region, but now they are available, and the players have to pay as per the time of their playing activity. In addition, game developers can obtain valuable insights into user behavior and revenue projections to update and build future-oriented games. Finally, it would combine Mastercard's technology, network, scale, and experts with its platform for an advanced customizable payment experience for players and developers.
President of Xsolla, Chris Hewish said, "We're excited to be back at GDC to continue sharing Xsolla's trending content." He added, "My experience at GDC has been engaging, as I get to talk to industry peers and professionals from around the world about the gaming industry's past, present, and future, which I find very compelling."
(Source – Business Wire)
About Xsolla
Headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California, Xsolla, a computer games payment company, offers solutions for local payment, online game monetization, micro-transactions, in-game payment solutions, billing services, payment gateway, and fraud management. Its business engine helps video game developers and publishers to operate efficiently and increase game sales. It provides solutions to the individual to enterprise-level businesses dedicated to the video game industry. It resolves distribution, marketing and monetization complexities for developers, publishers and platform partners. In addition, it is a merchant and seller for gaming entities like Valve, Epic Games, Twitch, Ubisoft, and PUBG Corporation.
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