This week in the ➡️ #Metaverse - Issue #26

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

What's going on:

New updates to ConsenSys' API tool Infura have sparked controversy in the crypto community as it will begin collecting users’ IP addresses.

XR Today reports on the latest web3 fashion news from around the globe, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.

Mark Zuckerberg shares some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history.

The brand sees the platform as a way to mine intellectual property like Hot Wheels and Barbie

Meta's surveillance business model is facing an interesting legal challenge in the U.K.

My way or the hardware:

Back in early 2021 Pokémon GO developer Niantic gave just a brief tease that it was working on some kind of see-through headset. Now the company has revealed that it’s been working with Qualcomm on a reference AR headset based on the Snapdragon AR2 platform. Niantic has been quietly developing a sleek reference design for what …

Apple is developing a mixed reality AR/VR headset that's set to launch in less than a year, if rumors are to be believed. With new hardware comes...

The"I love the Internet" award goes to...

Tumblr phenomenon 'Goncharov' (1973) will soon be a video game thanks to a game jam running on itch.io.

The WTF award of the week goes to...

Galactica was supposed to help "organize science." Instead, it spewed misinformation.

Gaming news:

In yet another sign that Beijing might be gearing up to ease its ongoing crackdown on the games industry, China's top gaming industry association released a report today declaring that the proble

Old School Runescape was down for a total of 17 hours

Any federal action could easily push deal past crucial July 2023 deadline.

I Am Not A Robot: AI news

A policy proposal heading for Board of Supervisors approval next week would explicitly authorize San Francisco police to kill suspects using robots. The

CryptoLand:

American CryptoFed DAO to represent itself in litigation with the U.S. SEC over its 2021 Ducat and Locke token filings.

Meme corner:

Ending nugget:

"We don’t make the payloads. Are we going to promote and advertise any of these weapon systems? Probably not. That’s a tough one to answer. Because we’re selling to the military, we don’t know what they do with them. We’re not going to dictate to our government customers how they use the robots.

We do draw the line on where they’re sold. We only sell to U.S. and allied governments. We don’t even sell our robots to enterprise customers in adversarial markets. We get lots of inquiries about our robots in Russia and China. We don’t ship there, even for our enterprise customers."

Ghost Robotics CEO, Jiren Parikh on armed robots for TechCrunch,