Roblox CEO David Baszucki revealed plans to expand the popular gaming platform into a metaverse used by more than one billion people everyday, and he sees virtual dating and concerts as key to achieving his ambitious goal. In a recent
Musician Robbie Williams will celebrate 25 years as a solo artist with a performance in the metaverse in a bid to reach fans from around the globe through his virtual concert. Taking advantage of the immersive 3D virtual reality (VR)
The world’s biggest retailer is all in on the metaverse, with multiple projects and products connected to the virtual realm. The strategy is to build fresh connections between the real and digital worlds. The digital realm Shopping giant Walmart is
The success of the metaverse depends on the ability of developers to build quality experiences that “millions or billions” want to have. To do that the sector must attract, find, and financially incentivize the very top talent from related industries.
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
This past weekend Yuga Labs, the owner of popular NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club, hosted the ‘Second Trip’ to its Otherside metaverse, with thousands of users taking part. The maiden journey to the Otherside metaverse took place last July
A new report by immersive media company Everyrealm has shined a spotlight on young people’s use of technology. The “Immersive Media Market Report” suggests members of Gen Alpha (born after 2010) and Gen Z (born in the mid-to-late 90s) prefer
MetaNews takes another look at what stories have helped to shape the metaverse this week. This time we talk about a fresh round of job cuts at Meta and a stale round of job cuts at Microsoft, and consider whether
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
Spain’s Ministry of Culture and Sports will direct EU grant money to invest €8 million ($8.5 million) in developing video games and the metaverse. Spain’s “Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan” is a program of investments designed to incubate and accelerate
PRESS RELEASE. In 2022, the TMRW conference was one of the first that was held offline after the pandemic. Following the major debut success in Belgrade (Serbia), with 21,000 in-person and online participants from 100 countries, more than 50 speakers,
Beijing has imposed tough limitations, but Baidu is pressing ahead with its metaversal goals. Baidu AI Cloud plans to introduce a livestream platform with virtual hosts. These will enable round-the-clock, AI-driven livestreaming with hyper-realistic digital avatars that can individually choose
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