News from Crypto, Web3 and the Metaverse
Crypto continues its rise, more states move to adopt Bitcoin and ban TikTok, big banks exploring blockchain, Microsoft sunsets AltspaceVR, and news in brief from Croquet, Meta, AWE, the Poly Awards, Emperia and … Martha Stewart?
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Our eye on the charts, the Fed’s movement in crypto and potentially in the XR hardware space. News briefs from the VR Awards, Ori Inbar and the Augmented World Expo, Conquest VR, Yuga Labs, VIVE, Ready Player Me, and Meta. Year-in-review content from Rooom, Virtualwear, Niantic, Meta, Ashley Huffman, and XR news outlet Mixed.
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Our eye on the crypto charts, keeping up with FTX, Visa’s play in crypto, Meta’s projected revenue spend on XR, T-Mobile Releases “Game of Phones” plus a slew of other news including a special holiday roundup from 8th Wall.
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Our eye on the charts, FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested on fraud charges, a peak at XR Safety Week, the premiere of a metaverse documentary, AR performances by The Gorillaz, new virtual fashions on Ready Player Me, NFT trading cards from a former president, and a roundup of XR Gaming news including Niantic, Among Us VR, Gorilla Tag, and Population: One.
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Our eye on crypto prices, a look at how institutional investors and crypto natives approach market instability, an innovative company working on “life subtitled,” major software integrations for XR headset maker Varjo, and XR experiences from Hot Wheels, Activision Blizzard and Disney and Macy’s Parade Metaverse experience round out this Thanksgiving week in Web3.
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A crypto company shakeup tanks the market and stirs up the Fed. Meta lays off more than 11,000 people. And industry expert Tom Ffiske quantifies the water level rising over virtual land. Good news? Yeah, we’ve got that, too.
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Our weekly eye on the charts, a look at big movements from the Polygon network, a new initiative from the XR Association, Ozzy Osbourne and Kenan Thompson appear in virtual worlds, Snap partners with Amazon, and a new opensource project steps up to fill the hole in our hearts and headsets left by the sunsetting of Firefox Reality a few years back.
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This week Walmart enters the Metaverse, BONELAB is available on Quest, Lenovo releases its new VR headset and NVIDIA launches an AI initiative to populate virtual worlds.
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On September 15, 2022, Pew Research Center posted a discussion on Twitter Spaces about “What Will the Metaverse Look Like in 2040?” The panel included Isaac Mei and Lee Raine of Pew Research Center, Janna Anderson of Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center, Avi Bar-Zeev of XR Guild, Kelly Bates, esq., of Interaction Institute for Social Change, Louis Rosenberg of Unanimous A.I., André Brock of Georgia Tech, Toby Shulruff of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, and Fred Kaufmann of Twelve Gates Foundation.
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The recent McRTFKT virtual store combining elements of McDonald’s and Nike has raised the question, will brands be safe in the Metaverse?
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