The OASIS Consortium, a think tank that brings together execs of metaverse platforms, published some of the first ...

Before AI was the big tech inevitability that would proceed whether anyone wanted it or not, there was the Metaverse.

At the heart of the metaverse derangement was the persistent inflation of its definition. McKinsey & Company proclaimed in June 2022 that the metaverse could generate “up to $5 trillion in impact by ...

Instead of hanging out with no legs in Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse, we're stuck in AI slop purgatory.

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Meta’s enormous bet on virtual reality ended last week, with the company reportedly laying off roughly 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division — about 10% of the unit’s staff — and shutting ...

It is easy to make predictions, and even easier to critique those that others made in the past. Case in point: Gartner predicted in 2022 that by 2026 (yes, that's this year), 25% of the population ...

While many are still around, some have pivoted to other areas. Others have shuttered as revenue remains sparse, funding efforts have fallen flat, or the real world proved more interesting to consumers ...

If you’ve been busy dancing on the grave of Meta’s failed metaverse, I’m going to have to ask you to pause for a moment. In fact, you may just want to sit down and rest your non-virtual legs, because ...

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As virtual environments evolve from speculative concepts into engaged digital economies, forward-thinking organizations are presented with a transformative opportunity: building dedicated marketplaces ...