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, […]
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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 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 […]
There is a Metaverse app out there for almost anything you can think of. If it exists in Web2, it most likely has a Web3 counterpart in the works or on the market. The idea of “the metaverse” is becoming more and more well-known; the august 2022 issue of the renowned TIME magazine even has […]
Unless you have been under a rock for the last couple of years, you have most likely heard how the metaverse will bring about a new era of digital connectedness, virtual reality (VR) experiences, and e-commerce. With all that technology in mind, do you need VR for Metaverse access or to take part in the […]
Can there be multiple metaverses? How many metaverses exist out there? Is it a single metaverse that combines many universes? As always, to answer any of these questions, we first have to get out definitions straight. Defining the Metaverse Everyone and their dog have a slightly different definition for the Metaverse, but it’s safe to […]
U.S. supermodel Bella Hadid has stepped from the catwalk into the metaverse with the launch of CY-B3LLA – a collection of Non-Fungible Tokens featuring artwork based on 3-D scans of her face and body. Hadid, 25, told Reuters in an interview from New York that she was intrigued by shared virtual world environments and that […]
If the internet and the videogame industry have shown us anything, it is that where humans go, human vices follow. Violence, sexual assault, abuse, and more, the internet is home to everything that exists in the real world, accentuated by the anonymity and lack of regulation offered on the web. With that, could we see […]
Two currents that are said to revolutionize the digital world are the Metaverse and Web 3. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is not a fan of either. As the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk’s take on the Metaverse was made quite clear in his interviews and tweets. He couldn’t envision a compelling use-case […]
As a virtual world, the Metaverse is bound to witness such inappropriate occurrences. Again, I need to highlight this one more time; the issue is not really the Metaverse here; it is more the people using it and the companies developing it and their inability to protect their users. Sexual abuse in the Metaverse cannot […]