Editor’s note: WRAL TechWire welcomes today Stefan Youngblood – an entrepreneur and thought leader on artificial intelligence – as its newest contributing columnist. Stefan writes about emerging AI issues, filling a need for expertise in this rapidly growing sector of the global economy. “As Founder of both HireBlack.com, and...
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Tim Sweeney, the billionaire owner of Cary-based Epic Games and a widely acknowledged visionary of interactive, realistic technology, is coming to the defense of the virtual world known as the “metaverse” even as big backers are cooling on the concept.
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Toy giant Lego, already a major investor in Cary-based Epic Games, plans to announce in the near future its plans for a metaverse virtual world venture with Epic, according to The Financial Times in London.
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Meta is cutting prices for two of its virtual reality headsets as it continues trying to boost adoption for the nascent technology on which it has bet its future.
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Robert Signore of Cary created the world he calls “Thrive Pavillion”, a virtual experience for seniors to meet, learn and play within the Metaverse world.
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Let’s explore three real-life use cases where virtual reality (VR) training is already happening today. There are some common threads across these educational use cases, but there’s also a great deal of the “art of the possible” happening here that can only be defined by the users who decide to participate in the metaverse itself.
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With so much innovation—and opportunity—happening around the metaverse, here are six reasons why we’re ready for the metaverse—and you should be as well.
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – As CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) unfolds in Las Vegas with the world’s biggest tech party, Lenovo is there with a huge presence as usual – and with new cutting-edge toys. Especially important to the world’s top PC manufacturer is the emerging metaverse virtual...
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Editor’s note: Welcome to Innovation Thursday. Here’s our latest in depth look at what’s new and trending in technology. +++ WAKE FOREST – House of Blueberry recently raised nearly $6M to support its goal of dominating digital fashion in the metaverse. So how will that be done? WRAL TechWire’s Sarah...
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