Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled his new avatar for the company’s bespoke Metaverse — and unfortunately for him, it still looks like total crap. During the company’s annual ...

The metaverse went meteoric when Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta last year. After interest remained low on Google Trends, the search term “metaverse” skyrocketed to 100, the highest rating, shortly ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his new, boyish metaverse avatar on Friday. He posted it on Instagram after a creepy, dead-eyed version from days earlier was roundly mocked. Zuckerberg said big ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tech & gaming exec, futurist, & speaker on spatial computing, AI & AR. The revenue from virtual worlds could approach $400 billion ...

Iger is investing in and joining the board of Genies, a company seeking to own the virtual avatar market. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Former Disney CEO Bob Iger (and his avatar) is entering the ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ready Player Me, a cross-game avatar platform that allows users to explore virtual worlds with one consistent identity, has closed a $56M Series B round led by Andreessen ...

If you saw the viral music video for Paul McCartney’s “Find My Way,” which features the 79-year-old rocker digitally de-aged to look like he’s 20, you may have figured out that’s not really the rock ...

I’m a dedicated misanthropist, but once in a while something happens that makes me believe in humanity once again. Like Matt Reed’s HoriZuck Lens for Snapchat, a filter that will turn your face into a ...

Microsoft Teams has 250 million users worldwide. And starting in 2022, they will be able to take meetings in virtual spaces, by donning virtual-reality and augmented-reality headsets. Instead of ...

A metaverse avatar startup called "Ready Player Me" just closed a recent round of funding at $13 million, which furthers the world's recent push deeper into the business of cyberspace. According to ...

Investors remain cautious about the AI push, however. In October, Meta’s shares dropped more than 10 per cent — wiping more ...

A study by the University of Stuttgart, the California State University at Fullerton, and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has found that there are benefits to representing one's ...