Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 launches Layer 1 ecosystem fund
Lamina1, the Layer 1 blockchain company started by Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson, has launched its Lamina1 Ecosystem Fund (L1EF) on venture platform AngelList....
How USD can become an open 3D standard of the metaverse
As CES 2023 approaches with a lot of metaverse talk, one of the technologies that is coming to the forefront of standards discussions is...
An engineer’s view of the metaverse | IEEE’s Tom Coughlin interview
Engineers are an interesting cross section of practical thinking and creative vision. When you give them a problem like the metaverse to work on,...
Inworld AI drives toward better AI characters in games with grants and Santa demo
Avatars have been around for a lot of video game history, but for most of that history, players would never mistake those characters for...
Metaverse Game Studios is using ImmutableX on its strategy RPG Angelic
Metaverse Game Studios are pulling the trigger on using ImmutableX for its debut Web3 narrative strategy role-playing game, Angelic. The indie game developer is...
The Sandbox sells $1.66M of virtual land for its metaverse
The Sandbox has sold more than $1.66 million worth of virtual land across the map of its metaverse in the past few weeks. That’s...
Ndreams acquires VR dev partner Near Light
Ndreams, a developer and publisher of virtual reality games, has today announced its acquisition of long-time collaborator Near Light. The companies have a working...
Meta Reality Lab sets its vision for mixed reality in the future
Meta had a tough year in 2022 as skepticism rose around its big bet on the metaverse and weakness in the core business forced...
Bored Ape company Yuga Labs appoints Activision Blizzard’s Daniel Alegre as CEO
Yuga Labs, the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, has appointed Activision Blizzard president Daniel Alegre as its new CEO. The new hire...
John Carmack resigns consulting post at Meta
John Carmack, the programmer who brought us Doom, Quake and Oculus/Meta virtual reality products, has resigned from his executive consultant post for virtual reality...