Metaverse

Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner

Clunky, costly, literally sickening data silos just aren't better than the real world

Software28 Jun 2023 | 119

OPPO abandons custom chip design ambitions

Asia In Brief PLUS: India gets blood from a drone; Toshiba sets a date; Australia floats metaverse standards

Personal Tech15 May 2023 | 2

Meta wheels out Deloitte to plug the metaverse. Is anyone actually convinced?

Comment All these analysts know is that their gut says... maybe

Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 37

Unilever claims it's a 'cloud-only enterprise' – now with added OpenAI

Funny way to describe a company that makes toilet cleaner

CxO04 Apr 2023 | 15

Ex-politico turned Meta hype man brands Metaverse 'new heart of computing'

Stop sniggering at the back. 'We're going to stick with it', says Nick Clegg. Unlike Disney

Offbeat31 Mar 2023 | 42

Microsoft dips Teams in the metaverse vat with avatars ahead

Can't be bothered with cam? Replace yourself with a 3D diligent worker

SaaS15 Mar 2023 | 29

Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, pals proclaim 'Japan Metaverse Economic Zone'

Updating the nation through the power of games. And ads. Lots of ads

Software28 Feb 2023 | 9

Meta to add verification to Facebook and Insta under scheme that should avoid Twitter's Musk-stakes

Paid accounts will be more prominent than your shouty relatives and get – wait for it – a support line

Personal Tech20 Feb 2023 | 40

Scammers steal $4 million in crypto during face-to-face meeting

Demand to display wallet full of coin facilitated mystery heist

Cyber-crime08 Feb 2023 | 86

Microsoft’s mixed reality dream meets harsh reality of job cuts

Updated Just so, so much enthusiasm for Second Life 2.0 right now

Personal Tech24 Jan 2023 | 8

Meta freezes development of $1.5B Alabama datacenter pending redesign

More AI is the answer to all our woes, Meta CTO says

Off-Prem20 Dec 2022 | 5

Quest VR glasses back on sale in Germany – but watchdog has eye on Meta

Goggles unhooked from Facebook login, but officials still watching for antitrust abuse

Personal Tech25 Nov 2022 | 15

'Odor simulation' included in China's national VR plan

Beijing nose best, wants VR to work in sport, tourism. industrial sims, at 8K with 60fps

Software02 Nov 2022 | 14

It's 2023, let's check in with the metaverse... Nope, still doesn't exist

You might catch a whiff of it in Slack or Teams next year, but otherwise normal human life goes on

Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 71

Meta wants to sweat its servers for longer – at a cost of $60b

Even as the ad market chills and share price slumps

Systems27 Oct 2022 | 14

Shareholders slam Zuckerberg's 'terrifying' $100b+ Metaverse experiment

Start with dumping a fifth of staff, capping that VR capex, firm urges

Personal Tech24 Oct 2022 | 35

Most Metaverse business projects will be dead by 2025

Canalys Channels Forum McKinsey forecasts market value of $5 trillion by 2030, Citi says up to $13 trillion, but Canalys doesn't agree

Personal Tech24 Oct 2022 | 75

Team Interpol: Metaverse Police

Attempted revival of virtual reality is only just beginning and already the cops just want to take a look around

Bootnotes21 Oct 2022 | 18

The Metaverse is the internet no one wants

Comment Meta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears

Personal Tech14 Oct 2022 | 92

Tencent has its Meta moment as CEO Pony Ma outlines 'immersive convergence'

Video confs to add multi-sensory interaction and by 2040 maybe even brain/machine interfaces

Software29 Sep 2022 | 5

European carriers again call for Big Tech to fund network builds

Argue tough economy means everyone needs to pay for the internet's growth – especially those who use it most

Networks27 Sep 2022 | 13

Nvidia sets out timeline for H100 GPUs – now for HGX, next year for DGX

GTC It's called Hopper because most of the chips announced today skipped it

AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 1

You didn't ask for it but Nvidia's gonna get you a metaverse-as-a-service cloud

GTC Sorry, sorry, Omniverse – and think subscription-based digital twins

PaaS + IaaS20 Sep 2022 | 4

Meta's next-gen Oculus headset kit left in a hotel room

Video Nothing to see here, unless it's Second Life Version 2 you're after

Personal Tech12 Sep 2022 | 17

Hybrid work not working? Try building an 'intraverse' to fix it, says Gartner

It’s the mutant offspring of an intranet and a metaverse and even if it flops, you'll get some kudos

Software12 Sep 2022 | 25

Meta hedges bets on metaverse silicon with Qualcomm VR deal

More silicon sales for us says Qualcomm

Personal Tech02 Sep 2022 | 5

China's tech juggernauts form metaverse research institute

COMMENT Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta spends billions on the concept

Personal Tech23 Aug 2022 | 3

Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there

Opinion No country for old menus

Columnists22 Aug 2022 | 104

After 40 years in tech, I see every innovation contains its dark opposite

Column From modems to the Metaverse, Mark Pesce has seen it all

Software20 Jul 2022 | 138

Microsoft's metaverse is for training autonomous drones

Project AirSim can allegedly run 'millions of flights in seconds'

Edge + IoT19 Jul 2022 | 5

We need a Library of Congress – but for the digital world

Opinion Hack the future with a meta museum: 1 weird trick to free 50 years of digital life

Databases04 Jul 2022 | 31

A miserable work week spent toiling inside 'the metaverse'

Nausea, eye strain, inability to take notes, migraines are just a few of Metaverse work 'perks'

Offbeat22 Jun 2022 | 68

Meta now involved in making metalevel standards for the metaverse

So are Microsoft, Adobe, W3C, Huawei, and… IKEA? Not Apple, though

Personal Tech22 Jun 2022 | 17

Metaverse progress update: Some VR headset prototypes nowhere near shipping

But when it does work, bet you'll fall over yourselves to blow ten large on designer clobber for your avy

Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 24

Consultant plays Metaverse MythBuster. Here's why they're wrong

Opinion Holograms, brands, NFTs, and a 1,000-consumer survey

Offbeat16 Jun 2022 | 83

Metaverse privacy maturity lags enthusiasm for new virtual worlds

Let's dive in and do it anyway, because that worked so well for social media

Software02 Jun 2022 | 11

India to upgrade mobile networks near Maoist insurgents to 4G

They're currently on 2G – a tactic the government uses to suppress communication

Networks28 Apr 2022 | 2

Accenture announces 'Accenture Song' – not a tune, but a rebrand

To deliver post-pandemic accelerated metaverse continuum experience consultancy. Or something

Offbeat28 Apr 2022 | 58

Meta physical: Facebook parent to open its first real-world store

To truly understand virtual reality, first you need to go outside, interact with actual people...

Personal Tech26 Apr 2022 | 5

The metaverse of fantasy worlds is itself still a fantasy

If your boss is bugging you about this tech, here's how to respond

Personal Tech04 Apr 2022 | 47

Web3 'contains the seeds of a dystopian nightmare' says analyst firm

Forrester Research is DeFi-ing current hype

Applications01 Apr 2022 | 59

Beijing to build Communist training college in a metaverse

Of course it will officially be massively popular – regardless of how many actually use it

Software29 Mar 2022 | 11

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks chips, GPUs, metaverse

GTC And 'AI factories'

SaaS22 Mar 2022 | 1

AMD reminds everyone it's still doing Threadrippers

Latest Pro 5000 WX series good for AI, engineering, maybe metaverse?

Personal Tech08 Mar 2022 | 15

Indian services giants target emerging technologies with PaaS plays

Infosys and Wipro bet that makers of metaverses and cloudy cars want ready-to-roll platforms

AI + ML03 Mar 2022 | 9

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is still pushing metaverse. Next step, language translation

He probably knows a thing or two about nobody understanding him

AI + ML24 Feb 2022 | 50

Insurance claims up 31% thanks to the metaverse

I'm gaming like a wrecking ball

Bootnotes14 Feb 2022 | 20

Grab some tissues: Meta's share price tanks after Facebook emits latest figures

Blame it on the metaverse, Apple, TikTok, inflation, and higher data charges in India

Off-Prem03 Feb 2022 | 71

Korea gives a $7.5bn nod to the metaverse and AI projects

Move over K-pop, the K-metaverse is coming

AI + ML26 Jan 2022 | 1

Meta trains data2vec neural network to grok speech, images, text so it can 'understand the world'

Whatever it takes, Mark

AI + ML21 Jan 2022 | 32

How can we push more chips, Nvidia thinks: Ah yes, free 3D metaverse-slash-omniverse tools for creators

Plus teases 'monster' RTX 3090 Ti graphics chip

Personal Tech05 Jan 2022 | 8

Reg scribe spends 80 hours in actual metaverse … and plans to keep visiting

It's not a place to spend all day, but a useful alternative when friends are distant, or the real world is dangerous

Software08 Nov 2021 | 80