Facebook opens Horizon Worlds VR app to public, inches close to metaverse
Facebook on Thursday announced that it is introducing Horizon Worlds, its virtual reality world of avatars, for users who are the age of 18 and above in the US and…
How a VR startup took the money and ran to the metaverse
The tech buzzword of the season is “metaverse.” Facebook kicked the craze into high gear at its Connect conference in late October, featuring an hour-long image-rehabilitation video where Mark Zuckerberg…
Bill Gates says the metaverse will host most of your office meetings within ‘two or three years’ — here’s what it will look like
As Bill Gates reflected on what he calls his “most unusual and difficult year,” the billionaire also looked ahead to 2022 and beyond with no shortage of optimism — including…
As Facebook plans the metaverse, it struggles to combat harassment in VR
Sydney Smith had dealt with lewd, sexist remarks for more than a month while playing the Echo VR video game. But the 20-year-old reached her breaking point this summer. Echo…
Facebook takes a step toward building the metaverse, opens virtual world app to everyone in U.S.
Facebook on Thursday announced that it is opening up Horizon Worlds, its virtual reality world of avatars, to anyone 18 and older in the U.S. and Canada. Horizon Worlds launched…
The Metaverse Is Going to Be Bigger Than You Think
The metaverse is going to be really, really big, which is about the only definitive thing you can say about it. That’s the general takeaway from a long report on…
“Metaverse” brightens the future of VR, investors pay millions of dollars to buy digital assets
Paris: The idea of spending millions of dollars on non-existent land may sound silly, but enthusiastic predictions about the future of virtual reality will make investors make big bets on…
Crypto Week At A Glance: Excellent Buy Opportunity, Metaverse Is The Next Big Phenomenon
November was the month of the Metaverse as the social media giant ‘Facebook’ decided to change its name to ‘Meta’, indicating its dedication towards the Metaverse space. But what is…
The New World Of Metaverse And Ownership Via NFTs
A question that has perplexed scientists for nearly half a century may have finally been answered. No, we haven’t discovered aliens, but may have found another world within ours. The…
The first metaverse experiments? Look to what’s already happening in medicine
The metaverse, the digital world’s Next Big Thing, is touted as the internet domain where animated avatars of our physical selves will be able to virtually do all sorts of…