South Korea invests in Metaverse Fund to drive economic growth
Despite the chaos caused by price fluctuations and ecosystem failures in the crypto world, South Korea has focused on the potential of the metaverse as a new source of economic…
Will VR Influencers Revive the Dead Metaverse?
Intro The metaverse has been a buzzword in the tech industry for years, promising to be the next big thing in virtual reality. However, despite the hype, the metaverse has…
Dubai Customs innovates with drones, AI and the Metaverse to secure UAE’s borders
From floating drones, underwater robots, predictive AI and an expansion in the Metaverse – Dubai Customs is embracing innovation as it steps up its mission to safeguard the UAE’s borders.…
The 20-year-old metaverse game ‘Second Life’ is getting a mobile app
Nearly two decades before Facebook and others were talking about the metaverse, Second Life was letting millions of users partake in virtual worlds. Now, all this time later, developer Linden…
Meta’s Goal is to Improve AI, Not Metaverse
The tech giant now says that advancing artificial intelligence will be its top investment priority, roughly a year and a half after it changed its name to “Meta” and said…
OpenAI’s GPT Is Helping Turn Text Into Custom Metaverse Worlds
Artificial intelligence is dominating tech headlines lately thanks to OpenAI’s advancing GPT models and competitors, and such models can generate text and media with alarming speed and accuracy. They may…
Hadean and PixelMax Expand Partnership for Metaverse Streaming Solution
Hadean has extended its partnership with PixelMax to develop a metaverse streaming solution. The two companies will build the infrastructure needed to power dynamic streaming in immersive 3D worlds. The…
Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 unveils early access program for open metaverse ecosystem
Lamina1 announced its first partners into its early access program to accelerate the development of an open metaverse ecosystem. HTC, Dubit, 0.xyz, and Neon Media are among the partners who…
From medicine to metaverse, longtime oncologist forms new venture with virtual modeling technology
Someday, Dr. Maria Bell predicts, there will be some form of medicine practiced in the metaverse. The virtual universe still in its early stages of development lends itself to that,…
These cities want in on the metaverse
The jury is out on whether the much-hyped metaverse will really materialise, what form it will take and the advantages and risks it might bring. But even at this early…