A weekly roundup of what’s happening in the digital land(scape). Metaverse ethics, governance and interesting trends from crypto, gaming, AI and regulation.
"The metaverse is already on fire, and we haven't even built it yet," says TED Fellow and video game lawyer Micaela Mantegna. She lays out why the metaverse is at risk of inheriting some of the internet's worst traits, like unchecked surveillance -- and shows how we could redirect its fate through new laws grounded in kindness and connection.
Users, new and old, of Meta's VR devices, will be required to sign up for a Meta account to log in and access the metaverse.
Sanas promises to remove your accent, and, in doing so, plays right into the problem it thinks it’s solving.
Twitch has announced that partnered streamers will now be allowed to stream on other platforms, ending the long-standing exclusivity portion of the partner agreement.
Dolphin Barn's gladiator management sim Domina lost any appeal it may have had when, starting last May, its developer began inserting screeds against "soft" men and LGBTQ people into th
The developer sadly passed away as a result of cancer complications.
TikTok has launched a basic artificially intelligent mage generator that users can make custom greenscreens with.
“Transframer is a general-purpose generative framework that can handle many image and video tasks in a probabilistic setting. New work shows it excels in video prediction and view synthesis, and can generate 30s videos from a single image: https://t.co/wX3nrrYEEa 1/”
The new project with Aleph Zero aims to bring elements of Cyberpunk 2077 into an R-rated cosmic horror experience.
We are promised boundless worlds where we can be our true selves, whatever we want to explore our identity and uniqueness, but sadly as it’s going, in the metaverse you will be as free as you can afford to pay.
Do you feel represented by this avatar or do you like that t-shirt? Well, too bad because that costs extra.
In a landscape where generative artificial intelligence is becoming better, accessible and capable of producing these digital goods aplenty, there is a case to be made about the metaverse paradox between artificial scarcity and digital abundance.
Micaela Mantegna, How to stop the metaverse from becoming the internet’s bad sequel — Companion piece, Medium
