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…
Six benefits that the metaverse offers to colleges and universities
Even though it’s unclear what exactly the metaverse is and whether it even exists, colleges and universities have jumped onto the metaverse bandwagon. They have augmented in-person and remote video…
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…
Metaverse Virtual Being Startup Inworld AI Raises $50M
Metaverse virtual character creator Inworld AI has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round led by Section 32 and Intel Capital. Inworld enables the design and deployment of…
Bear Market: It’s Here, So Let’s Get To Work On The Metaverse
The cryptocurrency market plunged into a bear market in late 2021. Even now, after a 73% drop in the value of the global market cap since November’s heady peak, there…
How Can We Bring Order To The Metaverse’s Chaos? It’s Simple: We Don’t
So said Tim Berners-Lee in 2018, reflecting on the impressive and tumultuous life so far of his invention, the internet. It’s a useful quote to come back to – not…