Metaverse

Hype May Be Shrinking but NFTs’ Uses, Buyers Are Growing
Hype May Be Shrinking but NFTs’ Uses, Buyers Are Growing
May 06, 2022  |  NFTs

Despite a highly publicized report that sales of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are “flatlining,” the cryptocurrency tokens that carry art, videos and music, among other things,...

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Metaverse Weekly: Meta Starts Small, Disney Sends in the Imagineers, Bored Apes and Memecoin Dogs Battle for Land, and Dubai Brings Regulation to The Sandbox
Metaverse Weekly: Meta Starts Small, Disney Sends in the Imagineers, Bored Apes and Memecoin Dogs...
May 05, 2022  |  Metaverse

Welcome to PYMNTS’ new weekly report on the metaverse, the biggest, hype-iest part of the crypto universe. So, what’s a metaverse? The short answer is...

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Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority Opens Sandbox-Based Metaverse HQ
Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority Opens Sandbox-Based Metaverse HQ
May 05, 2022  |  Metaverse

Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) recently opened its metaverse-based headquarters in virtual world The Sandbox, a move that the agency said is a step...

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NFT Weekly: The Popping of the NFT Bubble Has Been Declared Again, but Investments Keep Coming
NFT Weekly: The Popping of the NFT Bubble Has Been Declared Again, but Investments Keep...
May 04, 2022  |  NFTs

Welcome to PYMNTS’ new weekly report on all things non-fungible token (NFT). NFTs carrying art, video, audio and other media files have gotten a lot...

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Payments Help Move Gaming, Metaverse Beyond Today’s ‘Tip of the Iceberg’
Payments Help Move Gaming, Metaverse Beyond Today’s ‘Tip of the Iceberg’
May 04, 2022  |  Payment Methods

To get a sense of how society changes right alongside technology, and technology changes society, consider this: The pandemic has made it so that, in...

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The Next Three Years: Collaborative 3D Platforms Bring Digital Smarts to Industrial Design
The Next Three Years: Collaborative 3D Platforms Bring Digital Smarts to Industrial Design
May 04, 2022  |  Innovation

From creating cars and footwear to imaging experiential new worlds inside the metaverse, product and software design teams have long operated using 2D tools, and...

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Virtual Land Grab Raises $320M in Crypto for Developers of Bored Ape Metaverse
Virtual Land Grab Raises $320M in Crypto for Developers of Bored Ape Metaverse
May 01, 2022  |  Metaverse

Yuga Labs, which makes the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of the popular Bored Apes Yacht Club collection, is selling virtual land for its metaverse project Otherside,...

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Bored Ape Yacht Club Preps $300M Metaverse Land Sale
Bored Ape Yacht Club Preps $300M Metaverse Land Sale
April 29, 2022  |  Metaverse

The founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club say they’ll generate up to $300 million in cryptocurrency by selling land in the metaverse this weekend....

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Snap Boss Evan Spiegel Disses Metaverse in Favor of Augmenting Real World
Snap Boss Evan Spiegel Disses Metaverse in Favor of Augmenting Real World
April 29, 2022  |  Metaverse

People love the real world, Snap CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel says, and augmenting real-life experiences makes much more sense to him than building out...

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