This NYT reporter spent 24 non-consecutive hours in Facebook’s metaverse as research for this story. “My goal was to visit at every hour of the day and night, all 24 of them at least once, to learn the ebbs and […]
At least, that’s the principle that ZELF, “bank of the metaverse”, was operating under since its June launch. Like so many neobanks, it rented its license from Evolve Bank & Trust. In this case, indirectly, as a customer of banking-as-a-service […]
Part 3 of the series by Matthew Ball covers bandwidth, latency, and reliability of networks. “If we want to interact in a large, real-time, shared, and persistent virtual environment, we will need to receive a superabundance of cloud-streamed data.” | learn more
If you, like me, are still rolling your eyes at the metaverse, I think that’s ok. Because it’s not real yet. At the same time let’s keep a close eye on those who have a vision and are building toward […]
“Data from DappRadar suggests metaverse platforms Decentraland and The Sandbox each have fewer than 1,000 “daily active” users, despite $1 billion valuations.“ | learn more
“Machine learning generated content is just the next step beyond TikTok: instead of pulling content from anywhere on the network, GPT and DALL-E and other similar models generate new content from content, at zero marginal cost. This is how the […]
“Pokemon Go creator Niantic revealed its next game yesterday, an augmented reality pet simulator named Peridot. … Similar to Pokémon Go, the game uses a phone’s camera to make the creatures visible in an overlay to the real world, using […]
A really interesting read from Outlier Ventures: “We believe the next phase of growth in the evolution of DeFi will come not from better integration into the existing financial system, more regulation or real world assets and CeFi but instead […]
“Web3 and DTC are natural partners and Nike will be of the first major retailers to iterate around Web3 principles. It’s not just a new revenue stream: it’s community and status.” | learn more
I’m a bit skeptical of all the noise about metaverse these days. Where was everyone a year ago when zero people were talking about this? Is this really go time? My good friend and almost-40-year-old tech luddite has mentioned it […]