Another week, another bout of metaverse news and discussion. This time around, we have the (reportedly) sorry state of Microsoft’s big AR deal with the U.S. Army. The company fully expects the Pentagon to be disappointed with its deliverables, and some suspect that what the U.S. Army wants is just too far removed from what […]
Read MoreL’année 2022 promet d’être une année charnière pour le monde des affaires et de la technologie, inaugurant ce qu’Accenture a appelé le “Metaverse Continuum”. Selon le cabinet de conseil international, pour réussir dans ce paysage, il ne suffira pas de maîtriser les nouvelles technologies et d’adopter l’innovation. Il faudra une « vision véritablement compétitive », indique Accenture dans […]
Read MoreMetaverse discussion is ramping up, having gone from a phrase scarcely used before October 2021 to a core part of tech jargon that’s warranting five-year predictions and outlook reports. The latest of these analyses comes from Gartner, which predicts a lot of metaverse activity by 2026. Specifically, Gartner forecasts that a quarter of people will […]
Read MoreMetaverse is the latest buzzword in the tech industry. While the general public’s understanding of the concept may still be limited, tech companies see it as the place to be. The hype is real and Samsung wants to cash in on it. It has been several years since we had a new VR headset from […]
Read MoreSource: Windows Central The metaverse is a concept that’s been around for a long while (decades and decades, if not centuries), but its prominence in tech is a recent development. Now it’s a word that’s on the tip of many, many companies’ tongues, companies that had never said “metaverse” before October 2021. The question is: […]
Read MoreSource: Nick Sutrich | Windows Central Microsoft isn’t the only one facing reports of internal shakeups surrounding metaverse-related development initiatives. Meta, the company responsible for kicking off Big Tech’s metaverse mania in October 2021, is also the subject of stories citing project cancellations. The Information has released a report indicating that Meta’s planned hybrid OS, […]
Read MoreAltspaceVR is a virtual meeting space that works across several major platforms. It allows people to meet and interact online using avatars, which may sound familiar to those seeing the metaverse pop up in the news. Microsoft, which purchased AltspaceVR in 2017, is making some changes to the platform to reduce the risk of inappropriate […]
Read MoreIn an official blog post, Samsung has previously announced that the Unpacked 2022 event, which is just a day away, will also be hosted in Metaverse. Along with YouTube and Samsung’s official website, fans can catch the Unpacked event on Samsung’s virtual reality platform- Samsung 837X. The virtual world is modeled after Samsung’s flagship store located […]
Read MoreNow that live events are no longer a thing, at least for the foreseeable future, OEMs have to come up with interesting ways to launch their products. While there’s nothing wrong with an old fashioned online launch, Samsung wants to spice up the Galaxy Unpacked experience by unveiling the Galaxy S22 and Galaxy Tab S8 […]
Read MoreSince the 1990s, the horizons of the internet have been expanding exponentially. Along with that, the usage of digitization has also been rapidly increasing. Digitization is the process of converting analog data into a digital form by using an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) like an image scanner or digital audio recorder. On the other hand, digitalization […]
Read MoreMetaverse, a combination of ‘meta,’ meaning beyond, and ‘universe,’ is a term coined by Neal Stephenson, a science fiction writer, in his 1992 novel Snow Crash. Today, the term has a lot more than romantic appeal. The metaverse refers to highly interactive virtual worlds — where land, buildings, and even personalized avatars can be traded […]
Read MoreI remember the 1990s when Netscape showed up — the walled gardens represented by firms like AOL and CompuServe came crashing down. Modem manufacturers failed and companies that developed unique skills and intellectual property to manage those modems suddenly went from being industry kings to footnotes in history. We’ve had several waves like this over […]
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