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Music Artists and Communities: Feeling the Beat in the Metaverse

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INNA MODJA

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Euronews Next takes a look at what could lie ahead for the tech and crypto sectors in 2023.

Scientists had had a hard time making an electronic device flexible and stretchable enough to be comfortably used

On March 31st, OVER will occupy a prime location in Milan’s Piazza del
Duomo to stage a unique hybrid fashion show. Under the patronage of the
Municipality of Milan, the virtual catwalk will showcase designs from
new and traditional fashion brands – modeled by digital avatars
appearing in the physical world, via OVER’s augmented reality app.

End-to-end encryption ensures that only the user and the person they are communicating with can read or listen to what is sent, and nobody in between, not even Meta/Facebook, can gain access to this content. 

It came after the PIPC slap a combined fine of 100 billion won ($77.2 million) on them for collecting personal information without users’ consent

Land in Decentraland and The Sandbox skyrocketed after Facebook’s rebrand to meta

Tech companies and wireless carriers at this week’s expo in Barcelona displayed advancements to connect people and businesses online

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🚀 Metaverse Tokens SAND & MANA Skyrocket in 2023 🔥

Decentralized Systems Lead the Metaverse Revolution

The news is out! We’re going to @NFCsummit in Lisbon from 7-8 June 2023 and we get to give you 20 Allowlists! Use the code “METASUMMIT30” to get a discounted ticket (€30 vs €600) 🔥

HTC Vive debuted its Vive XR Elite virtual reality and mixed reality headset at CES 2023

Concept Artist Edit Ballai presented a new tool that can help protect your property from being fed to image generators

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Warner Music Group’s Web3 and Metaverse investments and partnerships

BGA has conducted a member survey to assess and present data from the views of BGA members and blockchain gaming professionals on the state of the industry and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

From more gaming companies jumping in to the relevance of popular concepts, various industry pros shared their insights on upcoming NFT gaming trends.

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BGA Blockchain Gaming Panel

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DR. ALEXANDER HOBBS

SAJJAD REHMAN

SARO MCKENNA

FLAVIEN DEFRAIRE

This week on the podcast, we invited Yassine, CEO of Kinetix shared his view on how democratized 3D creation tools, user-generated motion capture and NFT are tightly linked in the current stage of development, creating new business model based on asset ownership.

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Niantic, Inc. and Qualcomm team up to create their own AR headset standard

 revealed their virtual fashion collection. What do you think?

Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 platform

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The potential impact of the metaverse to GDP in Asia is US$0.8T-US$1.4T per year by 2035, roughly 1.3 – 2.4% of overall GDP.

This market map features 70 companies that have defined the metaverse and are building their portion of the ecosystem.

30 ways NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens on a Blockchain) are being used by enterprises.

How to bridge the gap in the new era of internet?
Women are locked out of leadership in the metaverse according to McKinsey & Company.

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The who’s who of Web3 Companies

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The company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club has hinted at an integration between 10KTF and its gamified metaverse platform #Otherside

The first version of the operating system, codenamed #Oak, is wrapping up internally and should be ready for the new hardware next year.

So many opportunities are coming to the movie industry, and Hollywood should be aware of what the competition is doing

BREAKING: Sony just filed a #patent for in-game #NFT infrastructure for their PlayStation console.

👟 The iconic brand’s latest venture is a metaverse play called .Swoosh, a Web3-enabled platform where people will be able to buy its virtual products

Israel-based start-up “Xternity” is helping web2 game publishers use web3 and NFTs, through its “no-code” platform

Gaming company “Eterlast” has raised $4.5 million to bring web3 games to sports fans

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Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy

Gartner defines a metaverse as “the next level of interaction in the virtual and physical worlds.”

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Watch this interview with Jonathan Brun, co-founder & CEO of Lighthouse Labs. Yingzi chats with Jonathan about Lighthouse, spatial web and the future

We invited the founder of Supersocial, Yonatan Raz-Fridman (Yon). Yon is a content and experience builder in Metaverse especially Roblox. 

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NFTs is supported for display on #Polygon#Ethereum#Solana, and #Dapper, which will encourage creator economy as a new way to monetize leveraging web3.

The American media giant is rolling out digital collectibles, including iconic moments and characters, from the hit series Game of Thrones

Your favorite creator may start trying to sell you digital collectibles, aka blockchain based tokens, if Meta gets its way.

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📖 Here is a list of the best 12 reports

Metaverse needs No-code or Low-code to scale! NVIDIA published new version for developers. #creatoreconomy

“Limitless creation; endless engagement: How UGC facilitates the human drive for creativity,”
UGC represents a paradigm shift in the new generation growing up right now playing games.

Many Web2 companies are now aggressively preparing for and transitioning to Web3 by Peter Bergstrom

Trust, but verify.

Zero-Knowledge Proofs, “ZKPs”, provide the possibility to achieve verification, at scale, whilst also preserving the actors’ privacy.

Presenting: The (new and updated) XR HMD POSITIONING MAP.

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How to leverage NFTs to help promote art and artists? We sat down with Pauline Foessel to talk about the roles of art and curators in the metaverse, and how NFT’s can help artists today to raise funds.

In this episode, we chatted with Aakarsh Naidu around his journey from working in Meta, to creating his own company around open metaverse.

In this podcast Ryan Gill tells us about Digital Identity, the mindset of Web 3 and the importance of an open Metaverse

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WB launched a new Twitter account under a separate name Warner Bros NFT, leveraging studio’s library of existing IP. They’ve launched with Lord of the Rings which is one of the top grossing IP of all times.

Venture funding and major brand partnerships were bright spots in an otherwise difficult quarter for NFTs

Netflix is doubling down on its strategy into cloud gaming

‘The game says it’s a ‘unique and immersive metaverse experience”

Virtually Human Zed Run announced a month-long World Cup Tournament inspired by the 2022 FIFA World Cup

 secures a $30m raise led by Framework Ventures that will help their team continue to enable the ease of blockchain adoption for game studios

 announced $18.75m raise to focus its’ efforts on multi-chain R&D and blockchain gaming

 announced a partnership with Immutable as well as a $10m strategic funding round led by Anthos Capital

Arcade raises $3.2m in seed funding to help them with making blockchain gaming more accessible to a global audience

ByteBrew raised $4 millions for its free #mobile game analytics platform

Splinterlands launched Presale 1 of card packs for their new Genesis League Goals card game (a new soccer game created with real Major League Soccer player cards)

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What’s in the future? We’ll see these kind of experiences to be released on real time 3D platforms like Fortnite Creative or Roblox.

DAOs are organizations where this hierarchical management structure is replaced with software.

In this special report, Deloitte cover the metaverse, virtual reality, and web3 (i.e. blockchain-based assets like Bitcoin).

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This week on the podcast, we sit down with Susan Cummings, CEO of Petaverse Network, and Tiny Rebel Games, and Camille Merré an entrepreneur, artist, Co-Founder/Chief of Metaverse of GEM-XR.

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DANI OSORIO

NICOLAS WEBER

TAMLYN RUDOLPH

NIEK VAN DER VOORT

In the new era of Metaverse entrepreneurship, it is important to combine the divers tech stacks and create something truly innovative and creative.

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 teams up with Google for crypto payments

The tech CEO said getting it right will be “hard.”

A number of law firms and legal technology companies are setting up offices in the metaverse!

Meta Quest Pro competes with HoloLens and MagicLeap in Workplace VR verticale

Microsoft is bringing AI-generated art to its Office suite with the launch of DALLE-2-powered Microsoft Designer and adding an AI text-to-image model to its search engine Bing

 just dropped a virtual woman named “iono” to hype two upcoming games

Web3 startup Chiru Labs (the company behind NFT project Azuki) has announced the launch of a new open-source token format called the Physical Backed Token

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Brands ranging from  to Nike, from FOREVER21 (UK) LIMITED to Tiffanys exploring different revenue streams to future-proof their digital businesses.

A glimpse into “Real-time immersive latent space.”

This reports provides a glimpse of how our society can function in the future without top-down structures

184 page report by Citi GPS in which the potential of the metaverse are explored

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SHANE NEUBAUER

NIKITA SACHDEV

ANDY KEH

ANDREW SHATYRKO

ROBERTO HERNANDEZ

This week on the podcast, we sit down with Joe Petrowski to talk of Polkadot, Web3 and beyond

In this episode, you’ll learn about how geospatial data can help accelerate building a metaverse that is as useful for entertainment.

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Lighthouse, the company building the open metaverse search engine, announced in late September the release of its NFT-gated beta. The Lighthouse portal enables users to search for experiences across and within more than 20 virtual worlds, galleries, and 3D environments while discovering and connecting with fellow creators and explorers.

Within mere weeks of releasing the beta, the Lighthouse waitlist attracted more than 35,000 users looking to explore the spatial web. Join the party (and invite your friends!) by registering for their waitlist at this link.

This technology has been preenacted in the research paper from Meta Research Lab, now it’s finally becoming a use case for mass market.

The companies will seek to integrate key Microsoft apps with Meta’s VR and metaverse technology. From 3D renditions of Microsoft Office 365 apps to immersive Teams meetings, Microsoft is also looking at bringing virtual reality (VR) to creative projects.

Mark Zuckerberg just announced the Meta Quest Pro, “a mixed reality headset for collaboration and creativity”.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is scrutinizing creators of NFTs and the crypto exchanges where they trade to determine if some of the assets run afoul of the agency’s rules, according to people familiar with the matter

Parisian fashion brand Coperni used Fabrican’s sprayable, liquid fibre to spray a dress onto a model at its Spring Summer 2023 show at Paris Fashion Week.

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LOUISA BREMNER
DARIL FANNIN
ALVARO LAMARCHE TOLOZA
QUENTIN AUGER
SIMON RAMES
OLIVIER KLEPATZKY

This week on the podcast, we sit down with Mirko from Unix Gaming who shared with us the creation and community of an emerging gaming guild.

 

In this interview we sit down with Harsh Rajat to discuss how a decentralized notifications protocol works in a way that is chain agnostic.

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The two new virtual destinations will offer unique interactive content and entertainment for customers, bringing to life the best of Walmart’s ‘isles’ in a virtual world with special experiences

London-based metaverse startup Improbable is on track to close a $100m (£88m) fundraise at a valuation of more than $3bn (£2.64bn) as the company seeks profitability.

During Tesla’s AI Day event, Elon Musk unveiled Optimus, an AI-powered humanoid robot Musk plans to mass-produce in the future.

Japanese prime minister says gov’t investment in digital transformation will include #Metaverse#NFTs

Tim Cook also says Apple avoids the word ‘metaverse’ because the average person doesn’t know what it means — a stark contrast to rival Facebook

𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐍𝐅𝐓𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠

Star Atlas just rolled out its first playable demo, plus its developer released tools to help other studios bring games to Solana.

SEGA will be teaming up with Japanese based blockchain game studio, double jump.tokyo, Inc. to develop a new game based on SEGA’s popular IP…the Sangokushi Taisen series!

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🕹️1970–1983: The Pre-Crash Era

🖥️1985–2000: The Tech Advancement Race

👾 2001–Present: The Online Boom

Niantic founder says adding a tech layer to indoor and outdoor experiences can enhance reality

🕹️ Chapter One: Money Transmitters and Convertible Virtual Currencies

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The History and Future of Metaverse Fun by Evin McMullen from Disco

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OYIN ADEBAYO TEDDY PAHAGBIA SOPHIA SHLUGER LEILA HURSTEL SANDY CARTER

We sit down with Adriana to discuss not only the role of digital fashion but more importantly its link with self-expression, digital identity and creator economy in the Metaverse.

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The MIT spin-off Brelyon has raised $15 million to develop new “ultra-immersive” virtual monitors that promise VR experiences without a headset.

Nanite and Lumen initially didn’t work in VR. Developers of VR apps had to use the legacy geometry and lighting systems, negating many of the advantages of the new engine. But with Unreal Engine 5.1 Nanite & Lumen now work with VR.

Writers and visionaries will be freed to craft and imagine even better stories. The next ten to twenty years will probably feature an era of human artistic abundance, where some of the greatest works of mankind will dwell on for eternity…

NVIDIA has unveiled a connector to use Unity with NVIDIA Omniverse, which is NVIDIA’s collaborative creation tool that leverages #USD to make people using different applications work on the same scene together at the same time. Imagine a Google Docs like tool for 3D scenes creation, with an additional layer for simulations and digital twins.

A report commissioned by the Pentagon concluded that the blockchain is not decentralized, is vulnerable to attacks and is running outdated software. The report, “Are Blockchains Decentralized, Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers”, uncovered that a subset of participants can “exert excessive and centralized control over the entire blockchain system.

Unlike other companies developing self-driving systems, Tesla doesn’t create HD maps to help its self-driving systems navigate, but it uses its simulation to create “corner case” scenarios to put its self-driving software through.

The new platform anchors #webAR and virtual content across physical locations by adding depth and realism to immersive experiences anywhere in the world using its AR map, allowing precise, centimetre-level accuracy across global locations, with just a mobile browser and no app required.

Two articles exploring this topic by the Drum and Metanomics. Find the links to these articles in this LinkedIn post.

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There are a variety of legal issues concerning the metaverse, especially given that it is a meeting point for multiple technologies, requiring or linked to servers, hosting, software, platforms, hardware and other peripherals (e.g. VR glasses and haptic gloves for sensing virtual objects), content, graphics, maps, buildings, photos, interfaces, as well as blockchain for acquiring and registering tokenised virtual assets.

“Inexorable economic forces drive investors to pay artists as little as possible while steering their creative output in the directions that involve the least financial risk.” –– Neal Stephenson

LAMINA1 by Neil Stephenson (Author of Snow Crash) have published the whitepaper outlining their vision for the #metaverse and the #web3 technologies to power it.

“Tokenomics can be defined as the study of determining and evaluating economic characteristics of a cryptographic token. [The Binance report aims to understand] how various incentives affect the supply and demand of a token and, ultimately, its price.”

Report depicts the development vision of the Metaverse, analyze current stage of Metaverse technologies and cases, build the framework of the Metaverse industry, and explore how companies should respond to Metaverse opportunity.

An essay on trade wars, unexpected successes, and the once but not future kings of the screen.

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Unlocking the creation of the Metaverse with Alan Smithson from MetaVRse

Digital Real Estate and Land Ownership with speakers:

Pierre MÉvy Azaria

Antonio Talarico

Gwendall Esnault

Dave Carr

Hrish Lotlikar

In this episode of Metaverse Summit Roadshow, we sat down with Jerome De Tychey to talk about the link between DeFi and Games. 

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The company announced its acquisition of WePlay Media after it recently closed multiple multi-million dollar fund rounds with investors such as Temasek.

The MSIT identified that imposing older regulations serve as a deterrent to the growth of new ecosystems.

Big gaming firms are working to spur mainstream blockchain gaming adoption, and don’t want to “change that policy” even if it causes pushback from some.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, FaZe Clan, the esports and creator organization that went public this summer, has selected The Sandbox to develop and host a virtual world that will be the gaming company’s home in the metaverse.

The metaverse will have “profound implications” for China and will affect gaming, advertising and e-commerce, JPMorgan said in a research report last week.

Fortnite Creator's Epic Games Store Launches First NFT Game

Epic Games Store Launches Very First NFT Game
Mythical Games’ Blankos Block Party with more than a million players, is now available on the Epic Games marketplace.

People, technologies & infrastructure – Europe’s plan to thrive in the metaverse

The EU has just made the metaverse a priority for the ‘digital age’ of Europe.

Apple RoomPlan API — WWDC 2022

iOS 16 introduces new ‘RoomPlan’ API for quickly creating 3D floor plans using LiDAR.

How to use Apple’s new RoomPlan API in iOS16 to recreate environments in 3D? Check out this demo:

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The talk by Hideaki Uehara at the Metaverse Summit In July 2022 on game distribution challenges

Learn from this panel of AI and Intelligent Tools

One of our first episodes of Metaverse Roadshow in-person event in December 2021. The experts future-proof opinions still stand under today’s circumstances

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In The Sovereign Individual, Davidson and Rees-Mogg explore the greatest economic and political transition in centuries—the shift from an industrial to an information-based society. This transition, which they have termed “the fourth stage of human society,” will liberate individuals as never before, irrevocably altering the power of government. This outstanding book will replace false hopes and fictions with new understanding and clarified values.

Network States author interview about nation-states, the internet, the metaverse, cryptocurrency, and more

Network States is being written off the back of The Sovereign Individual.
Technology has enabled us to start new companies, new communities, and new currencies. But can we use it to start new cities, or even new countries? This book explains how to build the successor to the nation state, a concept we call the network state.

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