This week in the ➡️ #Metaverse - Issue #22

Oct 25, 2022

A weekly roundup of what’s happening in the digital land(scape). Metaverse ethics, governance and interesting trends from crypto, gaming and regulation.

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Shameless Mass Effect indoctrination is on me :D

What's going on:

Linden Lab, parent of Second Life, will spin off Tilia, the proprietary finance engine that runs its virtual economy.

“Started with a landscape in #midjourney. Used a depth map in @sidefx #houdini to create a scene mesh. Imported to #UnrealEngine5 @UnrealEngine to add grass and animate. Added music. Breakdown thread 1/8 #aiartprocess #MachineLearning #deeplearning #aiartcommunity #genart #aiia”

Luckey sold Oculus to Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion in 2014, and was then fired by Mark Zuckerberg.

A subsequent statement from Meta says 'the segment featured animations created from motion capture'

A metaverse casino was hit Thursday with a multistate emergency cease-and-desist order.

My way or the hardware:

It’s not what Mark Zuckerberg promises.

The WTF award of the week goes to...

Bicycle will use its Ethereum NFT artwork to sell decks of Ape-branded cards, with plans to collaborate with other owners.

Gaming news:

The next entry into the Sims franchise has been revealed at the The Behind The Sims Summit.

Sony still hasn’t tossed out a launch day lineup for PSVR 2, although we’re starting to get a good idea of what the next-gen VR headset might have in store when it releases sometime in early 2023. Here’s a look at what we hope will be a quickly growing list of all games announced for …

I Am Not A Robot: AI news

In the "RIAA Submission to Comment Request for the 2022 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy", the RIAA points to AI music generators extracting features and creating new works.

(Fasten your seatbelts, here we go again...)

Ending nugget:

"...although there are some ways in which VR headsets can convey things that cannot be gotten from Zoom, there is so much missing non-verbal information that most people would still be uncomfortable using it for most types of meetings. And just making the devices lighter and more comfortable will not fix the problem..."

Philip Rosedale, "Head Pose is not Enough …and other thoughts on non-verbal communication in VR", Medium

This week in the ➡️ #Metaverse