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 […]
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What is GTE technology, and why are tech moguls betting big on it? GTE technology stands for Global Token Exchange. If you are remotely familiar with the potential of financial freedom that the advent of blockchain-enabled finance has to offer, then those words should give you goosebumps. Billionaires do not get to their level of […]
People are eagerly jumping on the Web 3 bandwagon and joining the online revolution that promises to transform the Internet as we know it. What is on everyone’s mind, given the ubiquitous enthusiasm and the potential profits that await early adopters, is how to invest in Web 3. Both investors and customers have great prospects […]
Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc was hit with a trademark lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday by MetaX LLC, a company that creates immersive virtual-reality experiences, for allegedly stealing its name for its pivot to the metaverse. New York-based MetaX told the court it had been “crushed” by Facebook’s rebrand and said its “ability […]
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 […]
Since Facebook announced it is rebranding to Meta, the long-forgotten concept of the Metaverse, which first appeared in 1992 in the novel “Snow Crash”, has suddenly become the talk of the town. The concept of the Metaverse is fascinating to say the least, for all the good and bad reasons. It is no longer a […]
The online community of today is nothing without avatars. Their popularity has increased dramatically after Twitter NFT avatars were introduced. Avatars are now often used on a variety of social networks, gaming websites, forums, and chat applications like Discord. Avatars give each user a distinct personality and help them stand out, and in a digital […]
Siemens has signed a partnership agreement with chip designer Nvidia Corp to create an industrial metaverse – an enhanced virtual reality for companies to reduce the costs of running their factories, buildings and speed up new product design. The deal is a cornerstone of Siemens Xcelerator, a new open digital platform also launched by the […]