The DeanBeat: Will the metaverse bring the second coming of Second Life?
The idea of the metaverse is getting more buzz than ever. I gave a speech on it yesterday to Sharad Devarajan’s class of MBA...
Deadmau5 will launch Oberhasli virtual world and music experience on Core
Electronic music artist Deadmau5 has teamed up with Manticore Games, the maker of the user-generated game platform Core, to build a virtual music experience and social space...
Alethea AI raises $16M in private token sale for intelligent NFTs for the metaverse
Alethea AI, creator of the “intelligent NFTs,” or iNFTs, has raised $16 million in a private and restricted token sale to a group of...
The metaverse’s appeal hinges on its designers and hosts
For decades, science fiction predicted we would be cruising around in hovercrafts and experiencing the bulk of our lives through virtual reality by the...
Jensen Huang interview: The physical world and the metaverse can be connected
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been talking about the metaverse for years. It doesn’t have a lot to do with the company’s revenues, which come...
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang to get semiconductor industry’s highest honor
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will receive the chip industry’s highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award. Huang will receive the honor from his peers...
Nvidia opens its ‘metaverse for engineers’ by adding millions of Blender users to Omniverse
Nvidia’s Omniverse, billed as a “metaverse for engineers,” has grown to more than 50,000 users. But Nvidia now hopes to dramatically expand this base...
Nvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups with $60B in funding
Nvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups through its Inception AI startup program. Those companies have raised more than $60 billion in funding...
5 ways to build the mobile gaming metaverse
It’s pretty hard to move anywhere in the world of games without bumping into someone talking about the metaverse. Supposing you’re not familiar with...
Epic Games acquires 3D content marketplace Sketchfab
Epic Games has acquired the 3D content marketplace Sketchfab, as it needs a ton of art to fill up the metaverse that Epic Games...