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The NFL is Making Big Metaverse Plays

The NFL is Making Big Metaverse Plays

The National Football League is making big strides into the metaverse with partners including Roblox and Fortnite Creative. The NFL Zone is the headline endeavor of the league, a metaverse environment built in Fortnite Creative. Fortnite Creative allows users to

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Metaverse Invaded by Anime Avatars

Metaverse Invaded by Anime Avatars

Japanese virtual reality (VR) firms are aiming to conquer the metaverse with anime avatars leading the charge. This was apparent at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC) show in Japan, with a number of exhibits featuring cutesy wide-eyed avatars

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Europe and AI

Campaigners Urge AI Act to Go Much Further

The EU is edging closer to passing an act that will minimize the potential harms of artificial intelligence (AI), but not everyone is happy with the bill in its current form. Access Now is one body that has expressed concerns.

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The word metaverse

Metaverse Runner-up in Word of the Year Vote

Metaverse claimed second place in the Oxford Word of the Year 2022, losing out by public vote to the eventual winner ‘goblin mode.’ Three hundred thousand people cast their vote in the competition with goblin mode the favorite among the

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Metaverse Wearables Offer Wireless Motion Capture

Sony has announced a new motion-tracking system of metaverse wearables empowering users to control a virtual digital avatar in real-time. The Sony system named ‘Mocopi’ features six colorful wearables, each looking something like an oversized button, but smaller than an

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Digital Copy of Earth in a Supercomputer

Chipmaker Nvidia is building a bridge from to its “digital twin” metaverse technology called omniverse to Earth-2, a project originally built to predict the weather with greater accuracy.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is developing a new global weather

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