Meta isn't shutting down its VR metaverse
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The keynote featured a bonkers video of Zuckerberg jumping between various CGI-rendered depictions of the metaverse in virtual reality. He visited a spaceship where the company’s executives were playing poker, toured a tropical mansion with a floating fireplace and met CTO Andrew Bosworth’s Pixar-esque alien pet Oppy.
The OASIS Consortium, a think tank that brings together execs of metaverse platforms, published some of the first comprehensive safety standards for Web 3.
Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support.
Two months before it rebranded as Meta, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rolled out Horizon Workrooms as the metaverse for work, a virtual room where colleagues were meant to “collaborate” without leaving their sofas. Now Meta is killing it, with a note on ...
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Please Just Let the Metaverse Go
As The Verge also notes, the section on metaverse browsers is heavily redacted, but it does hint towards a few things, including the fact that they “have the primary purpose of allowing the navigation and exploration of metaverse worlds” and “support virtual items and identity that are portable across different worlds in the metaverse browser.”
Translucia is a Thailand-led metaverse initiative launched by T&B Media Global. It’s framed as a full virtual world where people can interact, attend experiences, and take part in commerce. For brands, that matters because a “world” can host more than ads. It can hold communities, repeat programming, and digital goods tied to real benefits.
There lies a space, essentially under constant development and change these days, that we are calling the metaverse. While not universal in nature, it is more like a vast network of potential realities that users can experience. The metaverse is, in my ...
Neil Stephenson introduced the metaverse as a concept in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, where he depicted it as a digital realm where users, represented by avatars, engage in a simulated reality. Fast-forward more than 30 years, and the concept is often ...