Etiket: metaverse
Meta adds the ability to visit friends in the metaverse
(San Francisco) Users of Oculus virtual reality headsets will soon be able to visit each other’s homes, one more stone in the building that the social networking giant has set…
Advertising aimed at children | No privilege in the metaverse
Gap Canada announced on Friday that it is now advertising in Roblox, a popular role-playing platform for elementary-aged children. However, the Consumer Protection Act prohibits advertising aimed at children under…
Lighthouse Labs | A Montreal search engine for the metaverse
If you find that the metaverse announced by Facebook is a futuristic concept, it is not yet futuristic enough for the Montreal founders of Lighthouse Labs. Their ambition is to…
Walk on the red carpet, pass castings… Experience the Cannes Film Festival through the metaverse of the game “Fortnite”
The Festival locations and the Croisette are teleported into the “Fortnite” metaverse. During this 75th edition, video game users will be able to walk the red carpet virtually, and will…
The Cannes Film Festival represented in the Fortnite metaverse
(Paris) The online media Brut, a new partner of the Cannes Film Festival, announced on Wednesday that video game users fortnitepopular with teenagers, could walk the red carpet or climb…
Trade, work and trade in the metaverse
The metaverse will revolutionize the world of work and business, and companies that don’t want to be left behind had better follow suit, according to global consultancy Accenture, which recently…
A meal in the metaverse, anyone?
IMAGE FROM THE HELLO VANCITY FACEBOOK PAGE The Chipotle chain recently opened a restaurant in the metaverse. Sylvain Charlebois Senior Director, Agri-Food Analytical Sciences Laboratory, Dalhousie University Many restaurant chains…
Meta is testing the sale of virtual items in the metaverse
(San Francisco) Meta (Facebook, Instagram) will make it possible for content creators to sell virtual items to users of Horizon Worlds, its main platform in the metaverse, according to a…
The metaverse is from Montreal | The duty
Montrealers, the metaverse? In part, yes. Because the immersive environment that Facebook founder and current Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dreams of cannot exist without artificial intelligence (AI), and much of…
NFT and metaverse | Sotheby’s goes digital
(Barcelona) An auction house founded in 1744 that launches into NFTs and the metaverse? A logical continuation in the history of Sotheby’s, in view of the “absolutely enormous” audience and…
Meta Provides Update on Its Efforts to Build the Metaverse
(San Francisco) Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus…) presented on Wednesday some of its efforts to transform itself into a technology company specializing in the metaverse as its business model falters…
JPMorgan dives into the metaverse | The Press
Canadian banks are watching their American counterpart “closely” Posted at 7:00 a.m. Richard Dufour The Press As JPMorgan this week became the first major North American bank to dive into…
Technology: the metaverse is part of the Canada Media Fund’s 2022 trends
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) sees the metaverse in its soup in 2022. It makes the connection between the digital divide, separating the country’s urban centers from its more remote…
Seal Off in the Metaverse
The Phoque Off music festival in Quebec is not afraid to push the limits and has decided to go beyond simple reality for its 2022 edition. This one will take…
Against virtual harassment, the Meta group establishes social distancing between avatars in the metaverse
After the first cases of virtual harassment, the Meta group (Facebook) will introduce a minimum distance between avatars in its Horizon social network. Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues allow users…
The rise of the metaverse, in the eye of one of its creators
The concept of the metaverse is not new. First coined by writer Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel The virtual samurai, later reimagined as an oasis in the novel Ready…
Bringing virtual reality to life: the metaverse project
(Las Vegas) “What is the metaverse without the sensations?” It’s just avatars, ”says José Fuertes, whose haptic jacket, lined with sensors, allows you to feel both the hugs and the…
China | Internet giant Baidu takes its first steps in the metaverse
(Beijing) The Chinese internet giant Baidu on Monday launched in his country one of the first applications of “metaverse”, this virtual parallel world considered to be the next big leap…
inside the metaverse, the virtual world of tomorrow
Posted on 12/15/2021 9:00 p.m. France 2 Article written by L.de La Mornais, T. Donzel, A.Monange, K. Sullivan – France 2 France Televisions In the United States, the large groups,…
inside the metaverse, the virtual world of tomorrow
Posted on 12/15/2021 9:00 p.m. France 2 Article written by L.de La Mornais, T. Donzel, A.Monange, K. Sullivan – France 2 France Televisions In the United States, the large groups,…