Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023

Is the metaverse closer than we think?

It depends on who you ask at CES, where companies are showing off innovations that could immerse us deeper into virtual reality, otherwise known as VR.

The metaverse — essentially a buzzword for three-dimensional virtual communities where...

Friday, Aug. 5, 2022

“I so much like to hear the singing of things…” 
Rainer Maria Rilke, 1921
 
A new fixation of mine is the accelerated need for digital twinning, ushered in by the untethered space of the metaverse. 
 
I recall the production import of CAD files in early configurator work...

Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen warned Tuesday that the "metaverse," the all-encompassing virtual reality world promised by the social media giant, will be addictive and rob people of yet more personal information while giving the embattled company another monopoly online.

Haugen...

Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021

When Mark Zuckerberg announced ambitious plans to build the "metaverse" — a virtual reality construct intended to supplant the internet, merge virtual life with real life and create endless new playgrounds for everyone — he promised that "you're going to able to do almost anything you can...

Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2021

Anyone whose virtual alter ego is wandering around the Roblox online game platform these days might run into other avatars sporting Gucci handbags, sunglasses or hats. 

The digital-only items were part of a limited Gucci collection for Roblox, a step by the fashion house that prides...

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