Timoni West was thinking and talking about spatial computing and mixed reality long before Mark Zuckerberg ever said the word “metaverse” in public. West’s company, Unity Software, is a go-to graphics engine in game development (while the company also serves the film, animation, and…
Iwas recently involved in a research project using virtual reality (VR) to explore the impact of virtual green spaces on mood and well-being. I tried out the tech – an Oculus VR headset – on myself first and was instantly transported to a beautiful…
The metaverse is coming. Like all technological innovation, it brings new opportunities and new risks. The metaverse is an immersive virtual reality version of the internet where people can interact with digital objects and digital representations of themselves and others, and can move more…
I wanted to just put that one sentence in normal font size across the middle of two pages, and the little red ‘d’ (endmark) we use to signify the end of an article. I thought I was being very creative, and expected…
TerraZero Technologies has facilitated one of the first ever “metaverse mortgages” for a client buying virtual property in the ethereum-based metaverse platform Decentraland. The Web 3.0 company said it provided the majority of the financing, according to a statement released over the weekend. But…
This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The metaverse – How close are we? “Metaverse” emerged as one of the major buzzwords of 2021, alongside other notable tech terms such as “NFTs.” While the metaverse concept is not…
As the two-year anniversary of the global COVID-19 pandemic begins to hurtle toward us, we are no closer to knowing when our social lives will return to normal or what will the new normal be. The effect this has had on businesses…
What is the metaverse? A virtual world. Who owns it? The company Meta would really like to own it. On 28 October 2021 Facebook officially changed its name to Meta in the hopes of becoming synonymous with the technology and experiences of…
If you ask most people to name the key technologies of the metaverse, they’ll usually focus on the eyewear and graphics engines. If they’re sophisticated, they’ll also bring up 5G and blockchain. But those are the nuts and bolts of our immersive future….
Will October 28, 2021 be marked as a day of transformation for the technology industry? For on this day, Facebook Inc., which is currently valued at around $1 trillion, renamed itself Meta Platforms Inc. Like John F. Kennedy announcing the goal of landing a man…
