Earlier this week, a bunch of companies gave Epic Games a big ol' pile of money-- $1 billion to be exact -- to help it accomplish its goals for the future. This kind of thing happens a lot, both to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

Alexander is co-founder and CEO of Streamline Media Group, he writes about video games, diversity and inclusion, and the metaverse. The metaverse began emerging into everyday life as entertainment, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...