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DeFi and metaverse will open up opportunities for the financial services industry, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research executive says.

Roblox has officially has its own creator fund, the company tells Fast Company in an exclusive announcement.

One of the most striking changes that came to the tech landscape so far this decade has been Facebook’s sudden name change to Meta.

There was a time when the metaverse seemed like the next big thing, and Facebook deciding to rebrand its umbrella corporation as Meta was a major contributing factor for that.

Das letzte Mitglied von Disneys Metaverse-Team ist ebenfalls gegangen.

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The Metaverse Was a Ridiculous Idea. Where Did It Come From?
“Zuckerberg misled everyone, burned tens of billions of dollars, convinced an industry of followers to submit to his quixotic obsession, and then killed it the second that another idea started to interest Wall Street,”

It looks like the metaverse party is over for now.

Bubble PopVirtual real estate platform Decentraland, once valued at $1 billion, is now in free fall.

Meta, the self-styled “metaverse company” formerly known as Facebook, has taken on a novel role de-hyping the virtual world technology its founder bet the farm on just a few short years ago.

Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.

Meta wants to be both a metaverse platform and an immersive advertiser. AR Vice President Alex Himel sees it as an unprecedented opportunity.

Global brands and celebrities are increasingly adopting the metaverse.

Meta’s big bet on the ‘next chapter of the internet’ has not paid off, while Microsoft has dismantled its Industrial Metaverse Core Team and Tencent no longer plans to make the hardware.

The news comes just months after the company's first ever round of mass layoffs and a rocky 2022 in which Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on the metaverse.

After TikTok’s overwhelming success in the social media world, virtual reality has become the next battlefield for Chinese firm ByteDance and Facebook’s parent company Meta.

Meta's not backing down on its ambitious plans to integrate its so-called metaverse into our everyday lives.