Napster has debuted a metaverse for music, featuring virtual hangouts where artists can host events, showcase content, and monetize their spaces. An advocate for the open metaverse, TerraZero is also involved in the development of the virtual experience, which kicks
Interpol’s report reveals how metaverse tools can enhance crime analysis and law enforcement, offering immersive training, virtual crime scene replication, and insights into metaverse-related crimes. The Metaverse Expert Group produced a whitepaper that suggests that metaverse platforms may prove to
Starting in April, Yuushi Kokusai High School will start recruiting transfer students from Japan’s credit-based metaverse high school. In the “Metaverse Students” program, students can graduate from high school with an avatar of a student’s preference. They would, however, attend
Saudi Arabia, through its Public Investment Fund, has injected $590 million into virtual reality (VR) headsets, putting pressure on Apple’s Vision Pro. The investment was made into Magic Leap, a US company that makes headgear “that overlays virtual images into
Neom, the $500 billion futuristic urban metropolis currently under construction in northwest Saudi Arabia, has revealed Aquellum, its latest luxury destination off the Gulf of Aqaba coast. The project is embedded within a 450-meter-high mountain range, exposing an experiential and
Sony Corporation has announced the development of an immersive spatial content creation system to support creators in sophisticated 3D content creation. The system includes an XR head-mounted display with high-quality 4K OLED microdisplays. Sony has immersed itself in virtual reality
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) launched a metaverse experience for the winter youth Olympic Games (YOG) scheduled to be held in Gangwon, South Korea, later this month. The experience taps Gangwon-do province’s existing metaverse to offer fans different immersive and
Meta has introduced another AI concept into the metaverse industry. According to a recent tweet by Allen T., an AI educator and developer, the company released a new framework called Audio2Photoreal. Audio2Photoreal is a framework for generating full-bodied photorealistic avatars
Ready Player One author Ernest Cline and producer of its film adaptation Dan Farah have teamed up with Futureverse to create a digital universe for the story. Ready Player One is a story whose setting is in the future—in 2045—where
Police in the UK are investigating the alleged “gang rape” of a 16-year-old girl in a metaverse game. The girl was wearing a virtual reality (VR) headset and playing an immersive game when her avatar was reportedly attacked by several
The Museum of Science in Boston has launched ‘Mission: Mars,’ an educational game on Roblox. Developed in collaboration with Filament Games, this immersive experience benefits from the Roblox Community Fund (RCF), established in November 2021 with a $10 million endowment.
Although the implementation of the metaverse did not come as quickly as anticipated and was “doused” by generative AI, the concept is not yet dead and has a bright future. Growth opportunities are still plenty for the metaverse concept to
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