What are the biggest insights and observations in immersive tech & media this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes, featuring lightning-round commentary from AR Insider partner M7 Innovations. Founder Matt Maher lends his insights from the trenches of digital media creation.

We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Snap’s LiveNation partnership, Yuga Labs’ NFT collective, and MIT’s latest robotics. See the quick summary below, followed by embedded video. And stay tuned each week for more tech & media musings from Maher.

💥 Yuga Labs, the NFT collective backed by a16z, held the largest NFT drop in history and broke the blockchain. We debate why it happened.

🤳 Snap is partnering with LiveNation to bring exclusive AR lenses to shows. We discuss the possibilities of contextual AR.

🧤 MIT is building a robotic glove that allows users to forcefully grab objects with minimal exertion. We dive into the tech.

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