Now that just about everything else is becoming virtual, why haven’t supply chains? Imagine having the ability to view your entire supply chain on your laptop or your VR goggles. Zoom in and out of ...

The metaverse is a 3D social network. Instead of a profile, you have an avatar, and so do your friends. Instead of a news feed, you have social hubs where people gather to share news, gossip and play ...

When Cathy Hackl’s son wanted to throw a party for his 9th birthday, he didn’t ask for favors for his friends or themed decorations. Instead, he asked if they could hold the celebration on Roblox. On ...

Derived from a 1992 sci-fi novel “Snowcrash”, the term “Metaverse” was coined by Neal Stephenson as a successor to the Internet, constitutes Stephenson’s vision of how a digital world might evolve in ...

Virtual metaverse lands can be bought, sold, and developed, similar to physical real estate. Digital real estate transactions are secured using NFTs and recorded on blockchain technology. Despite ...

ZDNET explores the ways that the metaverse is coming to life and how it will change the nature of work -- and maybe everything else, too. Read now These technologies and their developing successors, ...

To hear tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or Satya Nadella talk about it, the metaverse is the future of the internet. Or it's a video game. Or maybe it's a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom?

For the modest price of 10,000 mana tokens (or $7,000) per day, anyone can rent land parcel 27,87 in Decentraland, a 3D virtual world that runs on the Ethereum blockchain. Renting the plot would give ...

In the few months since the announcement by Meta (erstwhile Facebook), the metaverse has witnessed its own accelerated maturation curve, with an initial upheaval of activity, heightened expectations, ...