Will The Metaverse End The Second Screen?
Over the last couple of decades, new technologies have quickly transformed the consumer landscape, changing tried and true ways of communicating with consumers and making everyone reinvent the wheel. The…
GBL: A burden-free way of preparing children for Metaverse
There were days when learning was restricted to the four walls of a building, with space, infrastructure, volume, and capacity limits, pen and paper, or chalk & board! Learners were…
Metaverse takes dating to new virtual world
Step aside, Tinder, Hinge and Bumble. The metaverse is the new place to date. Virtual reality dating apps like Nevermet let users connect through avatars, dancing in clubs and grabbing…
Why I’m averse to the Metaverse
The company Meta, formerly known as Facebook, sparked some criticism after it opened its keynote “Horizon Worlds” virtual-reality (VR) platform to France and Spain last week. According to an article…
How Can Metaverse Be Explored For Higher Education
Imagine a virtual classroom where students and the teacher are present with the help of Virtual Reality (VR) headsets, although miles apart. The teacher takes the students on a virtual…
Students are rejecting the metaverse – here’s why
From my experience, generation Z seem to have a burning lust for quick and easy money. This is evident in TikTok side hustle trends, investment and crypto currency. In actuality,…
China’s tech juggernauts form metaverse research institute
COMMENT While Meta has been hemorrhaging billions trying to bring CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse to life with little to show for it, China has decided it too will take a…
Meta officially rolls out its new metaverse ID system
Meta, formerly Facebook, has officially rolled out what it’s calling Meta accounts and Meta Horizon Profiles. The global launch will be gradual, but both “accounts” are to be used in…
How Apple Plans to Dominate the Metaverse With AR Hardware
Right now, tech industry giants all have the burning desire to spearhead the next computing platform revolution of augmented reality (AR) headsets. The race to do so in this decade…
Metaverse avatar platform Ready Player Me raises $56M led by a16z
Ready Player Me, a company that produces animated avatars for virtual worlds, today announced that it has raised $56 million in new funding. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series B round…