https://ift.tt/zmBF79i and Metaverse: Vanity Fair and Animoca Brands

Latest news in the NFT and Metaverse sector with new players such as Vanity Fair launching MetaVanity and Animoca Brands together with Planet Hollywood Group announcing MetaHollywood.

Not only that, UEFA Foundation for Children along with ORIGYN are also set to launch new NFTs to benefit children, while VooVoo made the launch of its NFT Marketplace official on Sunday. 

Vanity Fair opens its first museum in the metaverse, MetaVanity

Italy’s famous fashion and culture magazine, Vanity Fair, has announced MetaVanity: its first museum in the metaverse. 

Developed in collaboration with Valuart, MetaVanity will be presented at the 59th Art Biennale in Venice. Of course, being digital, the magazine’s new virtual museum can be visited by anyone by downloading the HADEM app available for iOS devices and soon for Android. 

MetaVanity consists of 12 rooms and 19 leading names of the international digital and crypto art scene, from Skygolpe to Jesse Draxler, from Luna Ikuta to Quasimondo, from Fabio Giampietro to Matt Kane, from Billelis to Federico Clapis.

MetaHollywood, the new Hollywood-themed metaverse and NFT marketplace

Animoca Brands and Planet Hollywood Group today announced the joint venture MetaHollywood, a new Hollywood-themed metaverse and NFT marketplace. 

The idea behind MetaHollywood is to create a Web3 metaverse that brings back the Hollywood experience, dedicated to film lovers, but also to studios and creators. Not only that, there will be a marketplace of NFT digital collectibles of moments, events and clips. 

Included in the marketplace will be collectible props used by movie stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tobey Maguire, Michael J. Fox, Jim Carrey, Sylvester Stallone, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Statham, and many others. 

In this regard, Planet Hollywood founder Robert Earl commented:

“I am thrilled to partner with Animoca Brands as we launch Planet Hollywood into the metaverse. The universal appeal of film, along with our unprecedented collection of iconic memorabilia, make the possibilities limitless. Through MetaHollywood, we will offer utility and functionality that is unrivaled in this burgeoning sector, and I cannot wait to see what our users create using the power of their imagination.”

VooVoo launches its new NFT marketplace on Sunday

VooVoo is an ambitious project that has just revealed the official launch date of its NFT marketplace, scheduled for this Sunday. 

The new NFT marketplace allows content creators to effortlessly create, mint, sell and collect NFT directly from their smartphone or any other media device. 

Digital assets on the VooVoo platform will be developed on the Solana blockchain which helps to ensure this with low fees, high security and great speed, offering the easiest way to get involved in the world of cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

Not only that, VooVoo‘s ambitions extend beyond the NFT space and through their partnership with Zilliqa, they plan to launch the VooVerse in ‘Metapolis’, recently unveiled in Miami. Here’s the announcement on Twitter: 

“We are pleased to announce our long term relationship with #Zilliqa. The future of Voovoo is bright with this multi-level partnership. Developments in blockchain, #NFTs & #Metaverse demonstrates our commitment to innovation & in particular immersive experiences.”

UEFA Foundation with ORIGYN to present “NFTs for Good” 

The UEFA Foundation for Children is also getting in on the act with its new Non-Fungible Tokens by partnering with ORIGYN to preview “NFTs for Good” on the Impossible Things marketplace. 

The goal of the initiative is to create a unique selection of collectibles and NFTs to directly benefit the foundation’s mission of funding children’s rights in areas such as health, education and integration.

ORIGYN is the Swiss non-profit foundation dedicated to identifying, authenticating and unlocking the powers of ownership of valuable objects, creating NFT digital twins of historic collectibles, including one of the launch coins of the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship final between England and Italy.

Urs Kluser, general secretary of the UEFA Foundation for Children, said:

“We are thrilled to partner with ORIGYN to bring these important items to the world stage and for the benefit of The UEFA Foundation for Children. We share a united vision of leveraging next-generation technology such as NFTs to raise money for children and world citizens across the globe. There is no better collective mission.”

This unique set of UEFA Foundation for Children sports collectibles, as well as their corresponding digital NFTs, will appear exclusively on the ORIGYN-powered marketplace, Impossible Things, which will launch in Q2 2022.