YouTuber and Ultimate star MKBHD tested the device using game controller, his legs, and the Force....

Analysts from the London School of Economics and Political Science say pan European industrial cluster is necessary for the EU to compete in Web4....

Driven by the great advances in metaverse and edge computing technologies, vehicular edge metaverses are expected to disrupt the current paradigm of intelligent transportation systems. As highly computerized avatars of Vehicular Metaverse Users (VMUs), the Vehicle Twins (VTs) deployed in edge servers can provide valuable metaverse services to improve driving safety and on-board satisfaction for their VMUs throughout journeys. To maintain uninterrupted metaverse experiences, VTs must be migrated ...

With the proliferation of wearable Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) devices, ubiquitous virtual experiences seamlessly integrate into daily life through metaverse platforms. To support immersive metaverse experiences akin to reality, we propose a next-generation virtual object, a meta-object, a property-embedded virtual object that contains interactive and multisensory characteristics learned from the real world. Current virtual objects differ significantly from real-world objects due t...

Metaverse aims to construct a large, unified, immersive, and shared digital realm by combining various technologies, namely XR (extended reality), blockchain, and digital twin, among others. This article explores the Metaverse from the perspective of multimedia communication by conducting and analyzing real-world experiments on four different Metaverse platforms: VR (virtual reality) Vircadia, VR Mozilla Hubs, VRChat, and MR (mixed reality) Virtual City. We first investigate the traffic patterns...

The convergence of blockchain, Metaverse, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) brings transformative digital opportunities alongside challenges like privacy and resource management. Addressing these, we focus on optimizing user connectivity and resource allocation in an NFT-centric and blockchain-enabled Metaverse in this paper. Through user work-offloading, we optimize data tasks, user connection parameters, and server computing frequency division. In the resource allocation phase, we optimize commun...

With the crypto market approaching its bull season, its only right for coins to pick up their pace. With more ETF adoption from various countries, investors are on an optimistic side looking to diversify their portfolio with coins coming to an upward...

Yuga Labs co founder Greg Solano says the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club BAYC non fungible token NFT is trimming down its workforce. In message to employees shared on the social media platform X, Solano says Yuga Labs will have to lay of...

Man City launches its second batch of free NFTs through the 8216 Unseen City Shirts 8217 web3 initiative with OKX tomorrow 8230 The post Next Round of Man City 8216 Unseen City Shirts 8217 NFTs Kickstart Tomorrow appeared first on NFT Plazas...

Mariah is an augmented reality (AR) mobile application that exposes power structures (e.g., capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy) through storytelling and celebrates acts of resistance against them. People can use Mariah to "legally trespass" the metaverse as a form of protest. Mariah provides historical context to the user's physical surroundings by superimposing images and playing stories about people who have experienced, and resisted, injustice. We share two implementations of Mariah that...