To depict the metaverse on TIME’s cover, we commissioned a renowned “digital explorer” to guide us into this new, imaginative world. Micah Johnson, a former Major League baseball shortstop ...

At its core, the metaverse means interconnectivity. In a world where people are increasingly isolated and working remotely, I see the metaverse as offering an opportunity to build new connections ...

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The CIO agenda: The 2023 roadmap for IT leaders. As the hype around the coming metaverse continues, CIOs find themselves ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reports that in the first six months of 2022, the word metaverse appeared in regulatory filings more than 1,100 times. The previous year saw 260 ...

Over the last few years, the metaverse hype has been astronomical and talk about this futuristic technology was everywhere. Leaders and technologists predicted that it would disrupt the way people ...

The full-fledged metaverse won’t be ready soon, and creating it will be costly. Analysts say it is a decade away because of technical hurdles, such as slow internet latency--the time for data to ...

I cover the digital asset and real estate markets at Forbes. Aug 07, 2022, 09:32am EDT. ... And it all took place in the metaverse. That’s how Samantha M., a 26-year-old from Washington, ...

Think something like the metaverse-equivalent of the HTTP protocol for transferring data, and HTML code for writing web pages. We’ll need a way to make sure that virtual objects are compatible ...

The company's quarterly earnings revealed that its Reality Labs division — which covers its VR and XR efforts as well as metaverse endeavors — saw $3.7 billion in losses from operations.

Also: 4 ways to detect generative AI hype from reality In many ways, the metaverse's fall from the front page is just par for the course, says Gartner Director Analyst Samantha Searle to ZDNET.

There’s a thin line between virtual reality and skewed reality, and whether the ideals of the metaverse will have a positive effect on the next generation remains an open question. 2. Identity theft ...