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Meta seeks to use generative AI in its metaverse, job listing shows

DIGIT — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 02:22:00 +0000

Meta is offering a $347,000 yearly salary for an expert to drive its AI metaverse vision, while a regulator has banned Meta from using personal data from Brazilians to train its AI.

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Meta’s Horizon Worlds launches on mobile and web in early access

DIGIT — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 03:12:49 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg’s Horizon Worlds is extending past virtual reality in a bid to bring more users to its 3D virtual world.

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Epic CEO mocks ‘metaverse is dead’ notion — 600M coming to the ‘wake’

DIGIT — Wed, 10 May 2023 01:39:57 +0000

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney made fun of a recent Business Insider article suggesting the Metaverse had run its course.

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Nifty News: Trump drops more NFTs ahead of presidential run, Meta opens to teens and more

DIGIT — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 05:30:02 +0000

Trump’s first NFT collection has seen its value plummet by more than 60% following the latest launch which comes ahead of his 2024 presidential bid.

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Colombian Court Holds Hearing in the Metaverse

DIGIT — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:00:19 +0000

Colombian courts held one of the first judicial hearings using metaverse tech. María Victoria Quiñones Triana, the magistrate of the Magdalena court, approved the realization of this hearing, using Horizon Worlds technology provided by Meta and virtual avatars to represent participants in the process. Colombian Court Holds Metaversal Judicial Hearings A Colombian court has ostensibly […]

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NBA Extends Partnership With Meta to Bring Basketball Games to the Metaverse

DIGIT — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 21:30:14 +0000

The NBA has extended its current partnership with Meta to broadcast its games to the metaverse. The company announced that 52 games of the league will be available to be enjoyed using VR (virtual reality) tech, using Xtadium, a co-viewing platform. Five of these games will be presented in a more immersive way for Horizon […]

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Apple Could Be Developing Its Own Metaverse Platform

DIGIT — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:00:11 +0000

Tech and communications giant Apple might be developing its own metaverse, recently posting several job offerings in the fields of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). One of the job listings calls explicitly for engineers experienced in the development of a “3D mixed-reality world,” for the Technology Development Group, the virtual reality division of […]

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Chinese Government Releases VR Research Plan Including Metaverse and Odor Simulation

DIGIT — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 17:30:15 +0000

The Chinese government has presented a plan of action regarding the inclusion of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) in the lives of the Chinese people. The plan contemplates research of several technologies, including the development of an open metaverse platform for its citizens and research on odor simulation technology. Chinese Government Includes Odor […]

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Meta’s Horizon Worlds Metaverse App Still Too Buggy to Be Used According to Company Executives

DIGIT — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 02:30:43 +0000

Meta’s VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah, acknowledged that Horizon Worlds, the flagship app that Meta uses to show the potential of its metaverse, still has many problems affecting its usability. In a recent memo, Shah explains that even Meta’s employees are not using the app so much, and hints at the establishment of time quotas […]

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Mark Zuckerberg to Overhaul Meta’s Metaverse App Horizon Worlds After Criticism of Its Simple Graphics

DIGIT — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 11:30:21 +0000

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has decided to overhaul the company’s flagship metaverse app Horizon Worlds after it received heavy criticism due to its graphic simplicity. The backlash was received as a consequence of one of the selfies of Zuckerberg’s avatar in Horizon Worlds presented to illustrate the launch of the platform in Spain and France. […]

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