Many of today’s most commonly used tools and technologies, such as mobile phones, the cloud, or the internet itself, all started off as either a science fiction concept, or something seemingly useless to the average person, dismissed as a trend. Those supposed trends are the Metaverse, cryptocurrency, NFTs, and metaverse crypto coins. An excellent way […]
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Digital assets have never seen a higher rise in popularity than last year, with 2021 being defined by influential shifts in the cryptocurrency market. Artists, musicians, and creators of all sorts, talented or otherwise, are finding additional ways to monetize their works with the advent of these new technologies and the communities that arise from […]
Meta (Previously Facebook) is taking legal action against malicious persons allegedly committing phishing scams by impersonating Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Since 2019, defendants have created over 39,000 websites to replicate Meta’s services, and then tricked users into collecting login information, according to the company. Meta explained in a blog post that the defendants used […]
The whole 30,000 of Adidas’ “Into the Metaverse” NFTs were sold in a couple of hours after putting them on sale Friday. Each NFT cost 0.2 ETH, which currently equates to about $765, and the company sold 29,620 NFTs (“Adidas and partners” held onto 380 for “future events”), meaning the company earned more than $22 […]
Intel issued its first statement regarding the metaverse on Tuesday, acknowledging that the future of computing promises of an always connected virtual world that exists in parallel with our physical one. However, Intel raises an important point regarding adopting any metaverse ambitions: there’s not nearly enough processing power to go around. “The metaverse may be […]
Famous dating app CEO, Renate Nyborg, revealed to Reuters that Tinder is seeking to expand its features to redefine the frontiers between online and offline universes by joining the metaverse league. In an interview with the news hub, Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg revealed that the company is releasing its Explore in-app characteristic, with cooperative events […]
Haptic gloves company “HaptX” is alleging that Meta has emulated its design in its latest uncovering for the Haptic Glove in Wednesday’s reveal, stating it appears “to be substantially identical” to its patents. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) haptic glove pioneer HaptX pointed fingers at Meta – formerly known as Facebook – stating […]
Mark Zuckerberg posted on Tuesday a video of him experimenting on a “haptic glove” to assist in sensing virtual objects, to highlight Meta’s virtual reality (VR) fueled metaverse. The cyborg glove is developed with hundreds of small motors to help bring sensory feeling to the hand. In addition to locking limbs into specific positions, such […]
What would it be like to walk around the ancient religious sanctuary of Olympia when the Olympic Games were held? An unusual partnership between Microsoft and Greece’s Ministry of Culture and Sport is offering visitors the answer, launching an immersive tour Wednesday at one of the world’s major archaeological sites. The program at ancient Olympia […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future, what Zuckerberg calls the “metaverse.” Skeptics point out that it also appears to be an attempt to change the subject from the Facebook Papers, a leaked document trove so dubbed by a […]