Imagine knowing the effects that a glass of wine will have on your body before taking a sip. What about a doctor getting to see how a tumor will react to cancer treatment, not just soon after but ...

(GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Microsoft and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, have their own visions for a virtual world called the metaverse — but an alternate, open-source vision from Seattle ...

And now it has a new one in the virtual world: Governing the metaverse, and the unpredictable people who populate it. Last month I wrote about a report from a University of California Berkeley ...

As reality post-Covid-19 becomes increasingly encumbered with economic, geopolitical & social headwinds, it is fitting that the alternate realities brought by the metaverse cast an optimistic ...

For the metaverse to become a true alternate reality, it needs to be built by its own users. “Any version of it that exists solely in the hands of one corporation as an ad platform, virtual ...

Companies are scaling back metaverse projects ... only renaming Facebook as Meta but also laying out this idea of this alternate world where he believed humans would interact in the future ...

Meta’s ambition was for a wild, interconnected world where, in theory, other tech companies would build metaverse spaces that bisected its own. It was to be a digital alternate reality ...

alternate Internet universe. Plus, a very real company is collaborating with them. So, first off, what is the ‘metaverse?’ As far as science fiction is concerned, that describes the ...

computer programs and alternate digital universes. Innovations like the metaverse would not be achievable without conversational AI, and as open source programs continue to develop, the adoption ...

For many users, it may not be worth the tradeoff. An alternate approach is to enact sensible regulation that would prevent metaverse platforms from storing and analyzing human motion data over time.