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NFT Metaverse Games: An Immersed Experience in the Metaverse

Despite what you might think about the whole NFT space and teenagers becoming millionaires over night by fluke, NFT Metaverse games are some of the best applications for the new Web 3 technologies that emerged in recent years. NFTs can now be used for a variety of purposes, such as digital identity management and actual […]

Meta Refuses to Give Up on Campaign to Disqualify FTC Chair

Meta Platforms Inc has almost no chance of barring the chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, from participation in the FTC’s challenge to Meta’s planned acquisition of virtual reality content developer Within Unlimited Inc. But that has not stopped Meta from continuing to wage a campaign for Khan’s disqualification, as evidenced most […]

Meta Accepts UK Order to Sell Giphy After Antitrust Battle

Britain’s competition regulator has ordered Facebook-owner Meta to sell animated-images platform Giphy on Tuesday after a tribunal upheld its view that the acquisition could damage its rivals and remove a potential competitor in advertising. Meta said it would accept the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) order to unwind the 2020 deal. “We are disappointed by […]

Metaverse Could Accelerate Manufacturing as Well as Social Ills

For companies playing with virtual reality as disparate as plane-maker Boeing Co and online-gaming platform Roblox Corp, forays into the so-called “metaverse” have come with equal parts promise and peril. The U.S. aviation giant is looking to digital technology to accelerate production of new aircraft, said Susan Doniz, Boeing’s chief information officer, at the Reuters […]

A Deep Dive into the Meta Metaverse

Tech giants are racing to dominate the future of the internet referred to collectively as the Metaverse. Whereas every tech giant has their own niche to fill, the Meta metaverse version want to be them all, and are investing heavily – to putt lightly – to make it happen. The Meta Metaverse in a Nutshell […]

Meta's New Quest Pro Headset, Mixing Real and Virtual worlds, Makes Debut

Meta Platforms unveiled its Quest Pro virtual and mixed reality headset on Tuesday, marking a milestone for Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s break into the higher-end market for extended reality computing devices. The headset, introduced at Meta’s annual Connect conference, will hit shelves on Oct. 25 at a price of $1,500, and will offer consumers a […]

Dubai Metaverse Assembly: Main Takeaways

Technology experts, members of the metaverse community, and representatives of significant businesses gathered at the Dubai Metaverse Assembly to examine prospects and strategies for realizing the metaverse’s promise. Dubai’s metaverse plan, which seeks to boost the Emirate’s economy by $4 billion and add 40,000 employees, was already made public. Since the announcement in July 2022, […]

Remote Work and the Metaverse: A New Norm 

The worldwide pandemic and other recent international events have significantly changed how we operate. Zoom and other video conferencing and collaboration platforms have altered company dynamics and made remote work and online communication more commonplace. Is it any wonder then that Metaverse technologies and remote work are evolving side by side. The so-called “Virtual offices” […]

The World of Metaverse Shopping

The retail industry has seen several changes in the last 10 years, moving from brick and mortar retail to e-commerce and social commerce, and finally into the digital world in the form of Metaverse shopping. The world is buzzing with terminology like Non-Fungible Token (NFT), Metaverse, Web 3.0, and Virtual Autonomy, among others, that have […]