E-commerce major Flipkart has launched its metaverse-based virtual shopping experience dubbed ‘Flipverse’. The Flipverse will allow users to discover and shop for products in a metaverse environment. The e-commerce company has partnered with eDAO to develop the virtual shopping experience, along with Meta and Ethereum Layer-2 scaling startup Polygon. Flipverse…
Meta on Wednesday said that it built an artificial intelligence system that translates Hokkien into English even though the Taiwanese language lacks a standard written form. The Silicon Valley tech titan that owns Facebook and Instagram billed the work at its Universal Speech Translator project as an effort to enable…
Samsung’s Latin American unit has forayed into Decentraland, which is one of the largest Ethereum-based metaverses. The company has decided to utilise this digital presence to connect with a newer generation of consumers who are using the metaverse as an immersive experience tool that may replace the rather 2-D online…
Walmart, the multinational retail giant, has launched two new experiences on the metaverse platform Roblox that targets a younger audience. Within Roblox, there are now two new spaces dubbed Walmart Land and Walmart’s Universe of Play, both of which offer unique interactive content and entertainment. The activation makes Walmart the…
The Walt Disney Company appears to be interested in expanding its Web3 presence as the company is looking to hire “experienced corporate lawyers” to work on “developed technologies”, including non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain, metaverse, and decentralised finance (DeFi). According to the job posting, the Corporate Transactions Group, within the Legal…
Puma, the German sports apparel giant, has announced the unveiling of its first-ever metaverse website experience called Black Station. It features exclusive non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with limited edition redeemable physical sneakers which will be launched as part of its ‘Futrograde’ show during the ongoing New York Fashion Week (NYFW). Puma…
Bharti Airtel has become the first Indian telco major to have forayed into the metaverse world. The network provider has announced a 20-screen multiplex in a metaverse called ‘Partynite’. The name of this virtual theatre has been decided to be called ‘Xstream’ and it will have content portfolios from various…
Meta on Friday said that it is adding the ability to easily socialise in virtual reality with an update to its Quest 2 headsets in another step toward the metaverse. The tweak heading for the latest model Quest from Meta-owned Oculus will let wearers hop into virtual settings with friends,…
Meta on Tuesday launched 3D avatars on Instagram stories and direct messages (DMs) in India. The Facebook parent company has also unveiled updated avatars for Facebook and Messenger with options for customisation. The avatars have new facial shapes that let users replace their appearance on these platforms with virtual characters….
Two years since the Coronavirus pandemic initiated the disruption of life as we knew it, millions of students from around the world are still grappling with education crisis that bent into a downward curve in 2020. As per the UNICEF, 76 percent of Indian students faced learning losses due to…
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