A weekly roundup of what’s happening in the digital land(scape). Metaverse ethics, governance and interesting trends from crypto, gaming and regulation.
PUBG creator Brendan Greene has revealed his next, blockchain-powered, game. Artemis will be a metaverse game featuring…
Richard Widmann, the head of strategy, Cloud, and Web3 at Google, told Decrypt he believes in a decentralized, multichain future.
Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 startup has come up with the Open Metaverse Conference.
The UAE’s Ministry of Economy has joined the league of government and private organisations with real estate in the metaverse...
Actor Bruce Willis, who recently announced his retirement from acting, sells his deepfake likeness rights so his face can continue to appear in films.
There’s a lot of chatter right now about the “surprise” shutdown of Stadia, Google’s game-streaming service. While it’s true that rivals like Geforce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming presented entrenched competition, and that Google knows next to nothing about gaming, the main trouble — as with most of its products these days — is that […]
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been making some big moves into the gaming space in recent years. Through various public agencies, it's made big investments in Capcom, Nexon, Nintendo, ESL Gaming
Meta's Make-A-Video creates videos from text prompts, and it's impressive but... there's no other word for it. It's nightmarish.
DALL-E launched frenzy of image synthesis development but was invitation-only until now.
Sooner than you might have expected and probably quicker than you were planning, NVIDIA just announced GET3D an AI model for generating virtual world objects -- think Midjourney meets the Metaverse: NVIDIA is looking to take the sting out of...
A new proposal could see victims of crypto theft get their funds back. Still, the industry has doubts about a “reversible” Ethereum token.
NFTs in the metaverse should generally be considered securities, but developers have been slow to recognize that fact. Expect a regulatory reckoning to come swiftly for Axie Infinity, Bored Apes, and other projects that have thrown caution to the wind.
“Bipedal robot sets 100 meter record https://t.co/HhHJkbXi18”
Our ability to think, decide, remember recent events and more, comes from our brain’s neocortex.
“Scientists already knew that integrating multiple senses enhances neuronal responses,” “If you only see something or just hear it, your reaction time is slower than when experiencing them with both senses simultaneously. We’ve identified the underlying mechanisms making this possible.”
University of California, Irvine neuroscientists
