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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Mark Zuckerberg has made VR the focal point of his metaverse ambitions. Herman Narula, the CEO of Improbable, believes that's a mistake.
With Dapper Labs and The Sandbox among its ranks, OMA3 opens up membership amid push for an interoperable Web3 metaverse.
Sources tell Politico that the European Commission plans to open an in-depth, "Phase 2" investigation into Microsoft's $68 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The commission is
Want to have a unique virtual reality experience with Chester the Cheetah this Halloween? Frito-Lay has launched a new Cheetos-themed virtual reality game that lets you spread mischief in a virtual neighborhood (and even bring a retired Cheetos flavor back to life!)
Rec Room says Meta is requiring the startup block children 12 and under from using the popular social app on Quest.
Her Story creator Sam Barlow recently revealed on Twitter that Tesla once approached him about adding the game to its library of in-car games. The deal never happened, though, because Tesla didn'
Pre-orders for the PS VR2 headset, games, and PS VR2 Sense Controller charging station coming later this month.
"Should I publicly blab my opinions about crypto regulation more?" he asks. "Feels unfair to let other people get attacked."
This month, the top five non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace platforms surpassed $40 billion in all-time sales.
Latest Computer Vision Research From Cornell and Adobe Proposes An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Method To Transfer The Artistic Features Of An Arbitrary Style Image To A 3D Scene
Google is releasing “season two” of its AI Test Kitchen app, adding new interactions based on the company’s text-to-image AI model, Imagen. It’s the first time the public will have the ability to use Imagen in any form.
Builder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year
"You know, I think it's entirely possible that we'll have level-five autonomous cars without common sense" "but you're going to have to engineer the hell out of it."
"We're not to the point where our intelligent machines have as much common sense as a cat," "So, why don't we start there?"
Yann LeCun, interviewed by ZDNet
Day of the Dead in the Metaverse 
