virtual worlds Archives

BMW Group's factory of the future - designed and simulated in NVIDIA Omniverse

How Nvidia’s Omniverse is changing real-time 3D design collaboration across industries (VB On-Demand)

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 14, 2022
4 min

Presented by Supermicro Virtual 3D collaboration at scale is here. Learn how NVIDIA’s Omniverse Enterprise platform with the new addition of NVIDIA OVX lets...

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Deadmau5 is creating Oberhasli, a virtual world in Core.

Deadmau5 will launch Oberhasli virtual world and music experience on Core

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 25, 2021
3 min

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...

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The Joblins are marauding our new startup in Going Under.

Why the future of work will look like a video game

Posted byby Jason Wilson
February 24, 2021
5 min

There’s no question that the past year saw an unprecedented level of digital transformation, perhaps the fastest change in how we work and where...

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Startups are key to the rise of any new platform, even the metaverse, and I chatted about this with Manticore's Frédéric

Metaverse startups must heed the mistakes of the past 40 years of virtual worlds

Posted byby Jason Wilson
January 28, 2021
6 min

When it comes to the development of the metaverse, we think of companies like Epic Games with Fortnite and Roblox with its huge world,...

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Sinespace pursues the ‘Second Life of virtual reality’

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 27, 2018
3 min

Linden Lab created the memorable virtual world Second Life in 2003, and it’s still going today. But even as Linden Lab tries to create...

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Donald Trump’s Second Life fans are vulgar and sad, but they taught me something

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 20, 2016
7 min

The 2016 United States presidential election is weird, but the Internet is doing its best to prove it can always get stranger. Supporters of...

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Comparing the virtual worlds of Warcraft, Second Life, and Eve Online to our own yields some surprising stats

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 7, 2014
2 min

At its peak, the number of people in World of Warcraft was bigger than Moscow, the world's fifth-largest city.

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IMVU continues to retain engaged fans for its virtual chat rooms

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 8, 2013
2 min

The online social-entertainment service has 3.3M monthly participants and a $55 million revenue run rate.

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Utherverse nabs a patent on scalable virtual worlds that can host unlimited users

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 25, 2012
3 min

Startup wants to create the "Virtual World Web," where we walk around the Internet with 3D avatars.

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Consolidation comes to kids casual game sites as SecretBuilders buys Dizzywood’s assets (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 17, 2010
2 min

Kids casual game site SecretBuilders is announcing today that it has acquired the assets of rival kids virtual world Dizzywood for an undisclosed price....

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