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 […]
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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 […]
European lawmakers have pioneered efforts to rein in big technology companies and are working to strengthen those rules, putting them ahead of the United States and other parts of world that have been slower to regulate Facebook and other social media giants facing increasing blowback over misinformation and other harmful content that can proliferate on […]
When Mark Zuckerberg announced ambitious plans to build the “metaverse” — a virtual reality construct intended to supplant the internet, merge virtual life with real life and create endless new playgrounds for everyone — he promised that “you’re going to able to do almost anything you can imagine.” That might not be such a great […]
Microsoft joins the metaverse legion by announcing Tuesday the development of a Microsoft Mesh Mixed Reality inside Teams by directly inserting virtual experience platform Mesh to endorse the integration of virtual spaces for consumers and business. The Big Tech titan revealed that following the overtake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the world’s shift towards remote […]
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 […]
The term “metaverse” seems to be everywhere. Facebook is hiring thousands of engineers in Europe to work on it, while video game companies are outlining their long-term visions for what some consider the next big thing online. The metaverse, which could spring up again when Facebook releases earnings Monday, is the latest buzzword to capture […]
Facebook said it plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union over the next five years to work on a new computing platform that promises to connect people virtually but could raise concerns about privacy and the social platform gaining more control over people’s online lives. The company said in a blog post Sunday […]