Meta Talk of the metaverse has waned in recent months, but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shook things up with an Instagram post that could have a significant impact on the development of the best VR headsets and accelerate the pace of the metaverse. The big news is that Meta will open-source the mixed-reality operating system … Read more
Picoheart, a Singapore-based affiliate of ByteDance, earlier this month invested an undisclosed amount to acquire a 9.5 per cent shareholding in state-backed InnoStar, which is headquartered in Shanghai, according to data from company registry information provider Qichacha. That investment was made “in hopes of utilising the memory chips produced by InnoStar in Pico’s VR headsets”, … Read more
Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture has launched the world’s first ‘National Cultural Metaverse Platform’, supported by the artificial intelligence system for Generative Media Intelligence (GMI). The initiative is presented in partnership with droppGroup and its World’s First “Phygital” metaverse using Hyper ledger Fabric 2.5 blockchain technology. The platform merges cultural richness … Read more
Meta/Apple We don’t often pit budget-priced competitors against ultra-premium technology, but the internet is buzzing over comparisons between Meta’s Quest 3 and Apple’s Vision Pro. Surprisingly, the $3,000 price difference isn’t the only reason that some people favor the Quest 3 over the Vision Pro. Whether you think of the Vision Pro as a spatial … Read more
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg took to Instagram on Tuesday to knock Apple’s new Vision Pro headset while singing the praises of his own company’s Quest 3 alternative. In a video lasting 3 minutes and 40 seconds and shot entirely on the Quest 3, The Zuck only had two positive things to say about the Vision … Read more
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has assembled 60 experts, including some from the country’s largest technology firms, to form a new working group to establish standards for the metaverse sector. Representatives from telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies, video gaming titans Tencent Holdings and NetEase, web search and artificial intelligence champion Baidu, financial … Read more
The once-thunderous stampede into the consumer metaverse has given way to crickets, according to the latest investment data from Crunchbase on Tuesday. Based on its numbers, the well of venture capital funding for metaverse startups — which soared in 2021 and 2022 — dried up in 2023. In fact, in terms of U.S. investments that broke $100 … Read more
Digital crime, especially sexual crimes like rape has entered a new arena, as the UK police are dealing with the first child rape case in the Metaverse. A teenager in the UK has been sexually attacked by a group of men in a video game. The UK teenager has reportedly suffered emotional and psychological trauma … Read more
The environment we combat at the end of 2023 is increasingly uncertain amidst geo-political tensions and economic fragility, but fresh approaches and ideas born of technology and innovation continue to emerge, constructed to both enrich and enhance the way we live and potentially help respond to the challenges we face. A number of these technologies … Read more
POLICE are investigating after a child’s video game character was gang raped in the virtual reality world. It is believed to be the first time a virtual sexual offence has been investigated by cops. 2 A child’s video game character has been ‘gang raped’ in the metaverseCredit: Meta 2 The girl, who is under 16, … Read more
