The metaverse went meteoric when Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta last year. After interest remained low on Google Trends, the search term “metaverse” skyrocketed to 100, the highest rating, shortly ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ready Player Me, a cross-game avatar platform that allows users to explore virtual worlds with one consistent identity, has closed a $56M Series B round led by Andreessen ...

“Metaverse” is a buzzword that has become quite popular in the last two years. Fortnite is a metaverse. Web3 and blockchain will help power the metaverse. Maybe cows will even be a part of it? However ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his new, boyish metaverse avatar on Friday. He posted it on Instagram after a creepy, dead-eyed version from days earlier was roundly mocked. Zuckerberg said big ...

You either log off ashamed of your own face, or you stay on Zoom long enough to become a narcissist. Those are the options being presented by researchers, pundits, and a host of other people who ...

Wolf3D today announced it’s closed a round of funding for its metaverse avatar platform, Ready Player Me. It raised $13 million, with the round being led by Taavet+Sten, a firm led by the co-founder ...

It’s been a busy week for Meta. On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg announced via Facebook that Meta would be launching Horizon Worlds, the company’s social metaverse platform, in France and Spain. The ...

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled his new avatar for the company’s bespoke Metaverse — and unfortunately for him, it still looks like total crap. During the company’s annual ...

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"Major updates to Horizon and avatar graphics coming soon. I'll share more at Connect. Also, I know the photo I posted earlier this week was pretty basic -- it was taken very quickly to celebrate a ...

Iger is investing in and joining the board of Genies, a company seeking to own the virtual avatar market. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Former Disney CEO Bob Iger (and his avatar) is entering the ...

The end goal is for Genies to create its own fully-fledged marketplace where fans can buy and sell non-fungible token (NFT) merchandise that can be worn in various metaverses. The marketplace, which ...