Do you remember what the internet of the past looked like? Static webpages that took an age to load, blurry JPG images and lots of garishly colored text and backgrounds, those were the days! Well, the ...

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Remember the metaverse? It was just a couple of years ago when it seemed as if every technology, media and entertainment company was scrambling to adapt to a future in which regular people would live ...

In 1992, Neal Stephenson penned the cult classic “Snow Crash” in which a pizza delivery man, Hiro Protagonist, exists between two worlds: the sunny streets of Los Angeles and the mind-bending ...

Neil Stephenson introduced the metaverse as a concept in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, where he depicted it as a digital realm where users, represented by avatars, engage in a simulated reality.

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The race to build the metaverse – a vast digital realm where virtual and physical worlds merge – is already becoming a global power struggle. According to new research from the University of Amsterdam ...

ABU DHABI, 5th December, 2022 (WAM) – The digital transformation to metaverse, the next generation of the internet, is a golden opportunity for the humanity to create an open and transparent digital ...

After changing its name and going all-in on virtual reality, Meta is scaling back its metaverse operations. But that could be ...

Today, the internet is a disparate collection of sites, apps and platforms. Because they are separate from one another, they lack interoperability and data portability. So, despite huge advances made ...

Gaming companies have a leg up in the race to build the metaverse. When Mark Zuckerberg announced his company was changing its name from Facebook to Meta late last year, he was met with a range of ...