This week, Christie, a retired school teacher in Perth, paid a bit over $1,000 to buy a virtual penthouse in a place called Uphoria, one of the many metaverse worlds that are being launched this year.

It was the “selfie” mocked around the world. In the foreground was a smooth-faced digital puppet ostensibly representing Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta (née ­Facebook). In the background ...

If you’ve been busy dancing on the grave of Meta’s failed metaverse, I’m going to have to ask you to pause for a moment. In fact, you may just want to sit down and rest your non-virtual legs, because ...

"There was a statistic that came out that said by the time a child is thirteen, on average, there's about 72 million data points on them all over the net, and that's going to keep growing, so as we go ...

Five years ago, tech angel investor Chris Adamo and a few friends jumped on a burgeoning trend in the digital asset world: they used a virtual real estate broker to buy 23 parcels of property in a ...

It was hard to escape the photo of Mark Zuckerberg from the September announcement of Orion, Meta’s augmented reality (AR) glasses. The distinctive thick black frames dominated the CEO’s face, ...

When Facebook changed its name to Meta a few years ago, the idea was that the VR metaverse would become a huge pillar for the company. I think we can safely say that's not going to happen. On its ...

In 2021, Facebook renamed itself "Meta" because it was the first part of the word "metaverse." This is fitting because "leg" is the first part of the word legacy, and the absence of legs will end up ...

The party has started, but the dance floor is empty. As the synth-pop plays, a character by the name of Mauhetti walks up the stairs of a glass tower owned by CryptoM1nataur to a room where a dozen ...

The metaverse has gained traction in recent years but a lot of Kiwi leaders are sceptical about how the metaverse can be applied to business and what it can truly deliver. But the technology actually ...