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Growth in Content Providers Creates New Demand for Soundstage Facilities (BD+C)
Relativity Architects' Partner Tima Bell discusses how the explosion in content providers has outpaced the availability of TV and film production soundstages in North America and E... More
Hollywood in the Metaverse: 5 Considerations for Content Creators (THR)
As entertainment powerhouses compete to launch various iterations of the metaverse, the time is ripe for creators and content companies to start planning how they will make their m... More
You’ll Soon be Able to Put Your Metaverse Avatar to Work — and Make Actual Money From it (Fortune)
Nearly two decades have elapsed since Second Life—a multi-player role-playing video game that is considered the first iteration of the metaverse—was launched. Now, with the met... More
Will the Metaverse Usher in a Universe of Security Challenges? (Security Intelligence)
As more human activity takes place in virtual spaces, the challenges around security will become more important. The shift from today’s VR to tomorrow’s metaverse is mainly abo... More
Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Will Require Computing Tech No One Knows How to Build (Protocol)
To achieve anything close to what metaverse boosters promise, experts believe nearly every kind of chip will have to be an order of magnitude more powerful than it is today.... More
Film, TV Facility Penzing Studios Opens Doors Near Munich, Germany, With Virtual Production Stage (Deadline)
The developers said they plan to invest €100M across the next three years to create a site with 12 stages, 25,000 metres of production space, and 15,000 square metres of workshop... More
How Virtual Production Seamlessly Blends Live, Digital Content (TWA)
The global market for virtual production is growing, projected to be worth US$ 3.9B by 2027. Rapidly evolving techniques and technologies will transform industries of the future.... More
Morgan Stanley Sees $8T Metaverse Market – In China Alone (Blockworks)
The actual value could be even higher: Morgan Stanley said it excluded NFTs from its metaverse valuation because “restriction on cryptocurrencies creates uncertainty on the poten... More
Metaverse Vs. Multiverse: How to Tell Apart the ‘Parallel Universe’ Concepts We Can’t Stop Talking About (Forbes)
Are you ready for the metaverse? Or should that be the multiverse? Since both are being described as “parallel worlds” you’re naturally confused about the two concepts. Don�... More
DAOs Primed to Play Key Role in Artist-Fan Relationship (Variety)
Think of DAOs like artist fan clubs with omni-directional capability, meaning that the interaction is not just a broadcast from artist to fan. It is a deeper experience with all me... More
The Future of the Metaverse: What 2022 Has in Store for the Immersive Digital World (Forbes)
The last year saw the metaverse go from literary text rumination to limitless tech reality. The concept remains elusive to both onlookers and industry veterans, not least because t... More
Final Pixel Opens Virtual Production Lab (TV Tech)
Virtual production studio Final Pixel has opened a virtual production lab here to test and push the boundaries of the latest virtual production technology as well as train the vide... More
Metaverse Marketers Will Know What Customers Want Even More Than Digital, Legacy Media (Media Post)
If you think digital privacy is a concern now, wait. This is only the ground floor - some narrower vision of the world to come. Now, Metaverse assumptions could get deeper for priv... More
Virtual Film Production is a Cost-Efficient Reality in Latvia (Baltic Times)
Virtual production studio LED Unit in Riga is at the forefront of a new, technically advanced way to make movies, series and commercials, allowing creative ideas to come alive with... More
Want to Rule the Metaverse? Symbolism is Key (Fast Company)
Brands will need to blend the physical and digital worlds to succeed.... More
‘We Met in Virtual Reality’ is the Best Film From the Metaverse (Wired)
We Met in Virtual Reality is also a glimpse into the burgeoning metaverse at a time when folks needed it most. Joe Hunting, who shot the entire documentary inside VRChat (he used a... More
Warner Music is Determined Not to Make Another Napster Mistake as it Plots A-list Concerts in the Metaverse
The music giant, which owns record labels Atlantic, Elektra, and Warner Records, among others, said it would build a combined theme park and virtual concert venue in the Sandbox, a... More
Futuristic Documentary ‘2080’ is One of First French Shows to Use Virtual Production (Variety)
In addition to using CGI and motion capture, half of the effects will be based on virtual production technology, as used in Disney’s series “The Mandalorian.”... More
iQIYI Produces Test Films via Virtual Production, Leveraging Digital Assets in Content Strategy
iQIYI has completed the production of two 4K test films this week in its self-built virtual production studio. The productions used scenes from the communities of Buliangjing, the ... More
Blockchain Metaverse Ecosystems Gain Traction as Brands Create Digital Experiences (The Street)
To understand how and why brands are leveraging the Metaverse, it’s key to point out the role that NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, play within these ecosystems. While the year 2021 ... More
