Anticipation is mounting as Apple gears up for the imminent release of its highly anticipated mixed-reality headset. With this development, experts and industry insiders are busy speculating whether the native tokens of metaverse platforms are poised to experience a significant
Meta has announced its own AI Sandbox, which it describes as a testing playground for advertisers to trial generative AI tools and services. The Sandbox was unveiled at an event in New York City yesterday, May 11. The social media
Users of Meta’s VR platform Horizon Worlds have learned that they can no longer create dedicated events, with many in the community furious. The news came during Horizon Worlds’ v109 update notes earlier this week. In the update, Meta said
Online match-making platform Dating.com wants to help users find love in the metaverse. Last September the site unveiled a “meta-dating experience for modern singles” in the blockchain-based metaverse Decentraland, and eight months on, a fresh series of virtual events have
Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has given cryptocurrencies his support, calling them “a major innovation engine.” The 69-year-old member of the Kennedy dynasty took to Twitter to outline his views on digital assets as his campaign for the
Belfast technology firm Immersonal has been using virtual reality to help victims of crime and witnesses prepare for the daunting experience of giving evidence in court. The startup, which specializes in designing “self-authored, immersive training experiences,” enables individuals to converse
The number of daily bitcoin transactions hit a fresh high over the weekend, just days after Grayscale published a report praising the effect of Ordinals on the crypto network. On Saturday, the average number of daily transactions over the previous
Payment giant Mastercard is no stranger to the cryptosphere, having offered crypto-linked payment cards for a number of years. But now the company is seeking to “bring more trust to blockchain transactions” via a new offering called Crypto Credential. Mastercard
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg this week hinted at the possibility of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into several of the company’s most popular platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Speaking on an earnings call with investors following Meta’s latest quarterly report
Investment bank Citi thinks the metaverse could be worth $13 trillion by 2030, yet in 2023 half of adults don’t even know what it is. That’s according to a new survey by broadband company Pure Telecom. The survey questioned 1,000
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