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The Metaverse is Coming: We May Already be in It (Scientific American)

As in the world of The Matrix, we may not be able to tell what’s real and what’s not.... More

Why the Metaverse Will Depend on Advances in Edge Computing (Raconteur)

Web 4.0 businesses will, in theory, offer highly immersive customer experiences. The high-speed processing demands of providing these will oblige many to transcend the cloud and ad... More

LucidLink, DPP Release New Research on Cloud Post Production

LucidLink released a new report, Cloud for Media: Post Production, from the DPP. Highlights from the report include state of play for cloud in production houses across the world. (... More

The Future of Virtual Production (Televisual)

Virtual production is changing the way that high-end TV and films are being made, directing actors on set in conjunction with real-time computer-generated environments, but how is ... More

Hollywood Studios are Taking Over New York (Surface)

The world’s first vertical film studio is headed to Queens. Across the state, there are more than 130 production facilities containing 450 soundstages spanning five million squar... More

Manchester City, Sony to Build the First Football Stadium in the Metaverse (Gadgets360)

Manchester City, one of the biggest names in English club football, are building the world's first football stadium inside the metaverse with help from virtual reality experts at S... More

Is Blockchain the Future of Entertainment? (Rolling Stone)

From the way content is produced, aggregated, distributed and consumed to the relationship between content creators and their audience, blockchain technology could have a direct im... More

Mels Expands Virtual Production Stage in Montreal (THR)

The Quebec studio operator is the latest Canadian player to offer virtual stage production services to local Hollywood shoots.... More

Making the Metaverse: The Digital Infrastructure Opportunity (Interconnections)

Enterprises are dreaming big, but to take the metaverse mainstream, they need a new approach to digital infrastructure.... More

How the Pandemic Changed Video Editing (Techonomy)

A new software for the cloud-centric, remote-work era lets collaborators easily edit a video at the same time, wherever they are.... More

Where the Metaverse is Already Reality: Will Gaming Finally Go Cloud in 2022? (Verdict)

There’s one sector where virtual worlds are already huge: that’s gaming, though curiously this is a sector which hasn’t yet moved to the Cloud. Nothing underlines this metave... More

Will South Korea’s $200B Finally Make the Immersive Metaverse Take Off? (Verdict)

South Korea is doubling down on its metaverse ambitions. The nation’s $200bn sovereign wealth fund is increasing its investment in Silicon Valley startups. The Korea Investment C... More

Meta’s Zuckerberg Unveils AI Projects Aimed at Building Metaverse Future (Reuters)

Facebook-owner Meta is working on artificial intelligence research to generate worlds through speech, improve how people chat to voice assistants and translate between languages, C... More

These are the New Jobs That Need Filling in the Metaverse (Euronews)

Besides the obvious requirement for software developers, the real estate being snapped up in the metaverse presents ample opportunities for jobs that help landowners utilise their ... More

Is the Metaverse Big Data’s Next Big Thing? (Tech Republic)

The metaverse is still a futuristic technology for most companies, but it's not too early to start planning your strategy.... More

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

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