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The Metaverse is coming. Or, another attempt at Bread and Circuses for the Masses.
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FIFA Hopes World Cup Fans Want To Buy Metaverse Merch - Slashdot
In the real world, the construction of the World Cup infrastructure in Qatar has been marred by extreme temperatures and migrant worker deaths. In the metaverse, however, a digital replica of Lusail Stadium in Doha has none of that baggage -- and the virtual property can be raffled off as a...
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Mr. Zuckerberg has said that the Metaverse is a 10 year project. That sort of thing does not sit well on Wall Street. He should take a page from the computer game industry. Developers have to meet certain milestones/deadlines to show investors progress is being made. With the Metaverse, it appears investors lost confidence since there was little to show for the amount of money put in.
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'Metaverse Will Be Our Slow Death': Meta Employees Hit Out At Zuckerberg - Slashdot
Meta employees are taking aim at Mark Zuckerberg in employee reviews on Blind, the anonymous forum. From a report: Some reviews, posted on Wednesday -- the day Meta laid off 13% of its workforce -- are negative, although others are more positive. One user likened the layoffs to the "hunger...
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Brands Filing for Trademark Applications for the Metaverse Have Waned - Slashdot
Brands flocked to file trademark applications for the metaverse earlier this year. Now, the number of those applications is falling, causing some to herald the end of the gold-rush era. From a report: Between January and October, approximately 5,000 U.S. trademark applications for metaverse and...
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Kids Don’t Want Cash Anymore–They Want ‘Robux’
A massive cohort of tech-savvy youngsters are learning to flex their financial independence through Roblox, one of the most popular kids’ online hangouts and a place where brands are increasingly setting up shop to reach them.www.wsj.com
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The ‘Military Metaverse’ Calls It Quits
The company called 'Improbable’ wanted to create a realistic training environment for military forces, but it never got its tech off the ground.
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Metaverse Off To Ominous Start After VR Headset Sales Shrank In 2022 - Slashdot
Sales of VR headsets in the U.S. this year declined 2% from a year earlier to $1.1 billion as of early December, according to data shared with CNBC by research firm NPD Group. CNBC reports: [D]ata from analyst firm CCS Insight reveals that worldwide shipments of VR headsets as well as augmented...
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Microsoft is shutting down its metaverse
AltspaceVR has already been through this once.
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The future of touch: Researchers uncover physical limitation in haptic holography
Haptic holography promises to bring virtual reality to life, but a new study reveals a surprising physical obstacle that will need to be overcome.
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Real AI will need biology: Computers powered by human brain cells
The time has come to create a new kind of computer, say researchers from John Hopkins University together with Dr. Brett Kagan, chief scientist at Cortical Labs in Melbourne, who recently led development of the DishBrain project, in which human cells in a petri dish learnt to play Pong.
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Scientists Working to Build Biocomputers Out of Lab-Grown "Minibrains"
A team of scientists has grown "minibrains" in a lab with the eventual goal of linking them together to form super-efficient "biocomputers."
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It is dead, Jim.
Cya all in 10 years when it has another revival....
Thank whoever that this crap has died, now someone has to tell Linkedin about it...
Cya all in 10 years when it has another revival....
Thank whoever that this crap has died, now someone has to tell Linkedin about it...
Disney Shuts Down Metaverse Unit as Part of First Wave of Layoffs
As part of a companywide cost-cutting effort, Disney has axed its cross-divisional Next Generation Storytelling & Consumer Experiences group, which encompassed the Mouse House’s metaverse…
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So, as Musk methodically destroys Twitter, Zuckerberg of course has created his own Meta-Twitter. Opportunistic move if ever, but why not ? Except the name he picked...
Awwww, sheeet...
THREADS https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-launch-twitter-like-app-threads-2023-07-04/
Like the bleak nuclear apocalypse British movie of 1984 fame.
We are DOOMED !!!
Awwww, sheeet...
THREADS https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-launch-twitter-like-app-threads-2023-07-04/
Like the bleak nuclear apocalypse British movie of 1984 fame.
We are DOOMED !!!