The new Metaverse firm has developed a haptic solution capable of industry-wide change.Meta AI, formerly Facebook AI, announced in a blog post on Monday it had created a new material and touch sensor capable of boosting the development of the Metaverse.Researchers of artificial intelligence (AI) at the newly-branded Metaverse firm have worked jointly with researchers and scientists at Carnegie...

Everyone is racing for their slice of the artificial-intelligence pie, and Nvidia is no exception. The company revealed the culmination of its efforts in gathering AI technology over the last few months: Omniverse Avatar, a 3D assistant creator.This takes the likes of Siri and Alexa to the next level. Rather than just being a voice that comes out of a machine from seemingly nowhere in some stra...

State Farm is jumping onto the NFT bandwagon with a football-themed treasure hunt running November 4–7. The insurance company is just the latest of a quickly growing list of brands experimenting with nonfungible tokens since they started gaining marketers’ attention back in March with the launch of NBA Top Shot. That same month, NFTs officially entered the cultural zeitgeist when Saturday Nig...

‘“HUMAN ONE,” the follow-up to NFT artist Beeple’s record-breaking $69.3 million nonfungible token, sold for $28.9 million including hammer fees, shattering auction estimates for the artist’s first physical work.KEY FACTSThe buyer, an online bidder in Switzerland, placed the winning bid of $25 million at Christie’s on Tuesday evening, ending with “HUMAN ONE” fetching $10 million more th...

CPI jumped 6.2% in October from a year ago in broad advance. Core measure of consumer prices increased by most since 1991.U.S. consumer prices rose last month at the fastest annual pace since 1990, cementing high inflation as a hallmark of the pandemic recovery and eroding spending power even as wages surge.The consumer price index increased 6.2% from October 2020, according to Labor Department...

Balmuda is gearing up to unveil its first 5G smartphone in collaboration with Kyocera and SoftBank.Balmuda has a reputation for offering top-notch and stylish appliances. The Japanese design company shocked the world by announcing its plans to make a smartphone.Details about the upcoming smartphone are still few and far between. However, The Verge suggests it will be a 5G-enabled phone.Aside fr...

The why, what, and how of consumer digital and analytics transformations.CPG leaders around the world have been awakened to the potential of digital and analytics to transform the traditional interactions and processes in their businesses. However, despite the energy and engagement of top teams, often these efforts are not scaling up impact as quickly as necessary to keep pace.Frequently, this...

A week before Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company's new name was Meta (short for Meta Platforms Inc.) to reflect the future Metaverse, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a future Metaverse application related to business meetings.Apple's patent covers techniques for displaying a virtual object in an Enhanced Reality (E...

In my article on the value-chain of the metaverse, I described the seven layers of the ecosystem. In this article I’m going to focus-in on three of the most important metaverse companies — Unity, Epic Games and Roblox — and describe the commonalities and differences.[click to enlarge]Let’s start with where companies (and some open source projects) sit within the market (version 6 .0 — upda...