The use of the metaverse is continuously increasing in different sectors, and now it has become a part of university classes in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The universities of Hiroshima are using this technology as extracurricular activities and part of
MetaNews picks through another week of Metaverse hype with equal amounts of hope and skepticism as we chart a path through difficult waters to our brave new virtual world. Here are the stories that made landfall this week on the
AI and Big Data tokens have joined metaverse tokens and industry-related cryptocurrencies to spike substantially in price. Among the hundreds of AI and Big Data tokens in the market, Fetch.ai (FET), Ocean Protocol (OCEAN), and The Graph (GRT) have brought
The market can expect to get hold of the much awaited Apple mixed reality headset this year, but the tech giant has shelved its planned follow up product – the Apple Augmented Reality (AR) glasses due to technical challenges. Apple
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked up the metaverse as “game changing” at the just ended Word Economic Forum (WEF). He spoke as the U.S. tech giant shut down its virtual reality (VR) metaverse AltspaceVR, in a company-wide purge that will
MetaNews rounds up another busy week for the metaverse, separating the signal from the noise. This week we contemplate whether the metaverse will be an escape from the real world or just offer us more of the same. The metaverse
Plots of land in metaverse communities are being rented out for considerable fees, leading to a new class system of haves and have-nots. Philip Rosedale, the creator of Second Life, is among the observers of this phenomenon. Speaking to Wired
Dookey Dash, a game where players trudge through a messy sewer system in search of a key to a treasure that a monkey excreted, has gone live. The Bored Ape Yacht Club, or BAYC, launched the game on Jan. 18
Neal Stephenson, who is credited for coining the term “metaverse” thinks the idea of a metaverse may be a hard sell. He invented the term in 1992 in his sci-fi novel – Snow Crash. Now, three decades later, Stephenson is back
A growing number of people are putting virtual reality (VR) headsets in the metaverse to talk through deep pain in their lives. A recent Ipsos study on the opinion the “metaverse is for people like me” shows what they called
Full body tracking in the metaverse may now be possible using only WiFi signals, according to new a study by three Carnegie Mellon University researchers. Jiaqi Geng, Dong Huang and Fernando De la Torre found that “common WiFi antennas [or
Immersive experiences have been on a major increase as technological improvements continued soaring since the beginning of the last decade. Companies have scrambled to make their mark in the virtual world. The Covid-19 pandemic helped speed up improvements to some
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