A weekly roundup of what’s happening in the digital land(scape) . Metaverse ethics, governance and interesting trends from crypto, gaming and regulation.
The legendary cyberpunk author is finally stepping into Web3 to bring his early vision of the metaverse to life.
International consulting firm McKinsey & Company has released a report saying that global spending in the metaverse could reach $5 trillion by 2030, making the industry comparable to the size of the entire economy of Japan.
Analytics platform Nansen aims to take a bite out of Discord’s dominance with a new messenger service for NFT projects and more.
The video is featured on a new page titled ‘The impact of the metaverse’, pitching the potential positive impacts for society and specific industries. It shows a student attending a virtual university, a surgeon performing virtual surgery to train, and school children visiting ancient rome.
A research team found that VR work led to more anxiety, lower productivity, and migraines
Axie Infinity’s vision of a “play-to-earn” video game has crumbled, and the company behind it now tells the players who bought into the hype it was never about the money, anyway.
Takashi Murakami spent a year fine-tuning the technical details of the project, launching it at precisely the wrong time.
Non-employed, along with the students, are finding it difficult to find stable employment since this pandemic brought many setbacks to employed and more particularly to unemployed students. This study explores the lived experiences, challenges, and coping mechanisms of Axie Infinity Players amidst the pandemic.
Gravity Falls predicted Axie... Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (VR) and extended reality (XR) technologies allow users to experience digital content in unique and immersive ways. These technologies primarily rely on the use of headsets, glasses ...
"Obviously, expensive digital images of monkeys are going to improve the world immensely"... they are “100 percent based on greater fool theory.”
“It has at its heart this anonymity through which you can avoid taxation, any sort of government rules,” ... “Anyway, I’m not involved in that.”
Bill Gates , interviewed by TechCrunch Climate #TCClimate, June 2022
