Crypto gaming firm Animoca Brands hits $5.5 billion valuation after $75 million fundraiseAnimoca Brands - an Australian company based in Hong Kong - said the raise was the second part of a $360 million round in January.
12 Jul, 2022, 10.46 PM IST
Sony readies for metaverse revolution with cross-platform pushThe company's game, music and movie units contributed two-thirds of operating income in the year ended March.
18 May, 2022, 11.13 AM IST
Epic Games valued at about $32 billion in funding from Sony, Lego firmSony, an existing investor, and the Kirkbi investment company each invested $1 billion, Epic said, with the fundraising to help advance a m...
12 Apr, 2022, 09.18 AM IST
Tamil singer Karthik to unveil India’s first music NFTs with metaverse concertThe solo concert by the singer in metaverse will be held on April 14, 2022.
29 Mar, 2022, 12.43 PM IST
Early birds that’ve immersed in metaverseThe metaverse will be an expansive space encapsulating instances of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and even mixed reality (MR...
27 Mar, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
522 mobile apps using metaverse buzzword to gain new users: reportData from market intelligence platform Sensor Tower reveals that Facebook's rebrand to Meta drove a surge in apps adding "metaverse" to the...
04 Feb, 2022, 11.54 AM IST
Epic Games invests in Spire Animation's funding round, eyes metaverse boomSpire said Epic's three-dimensional creation tool Unreal Engine will integrate with the company's feature animation pipeline to build into ...
02 Feb, 2022, 09.49 AM IST
'Metaverse' brightens VR future, investors pay millions to buy digital propertyThe digital land is functioning as an asset just like real land.
06 Dec, 2021, 05.08 PM IST
The new world of metaverse and ownership via NFTsA term first coined in 1992 in a sci-fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, the metaverse is a combination of two words — meta meaning beyond an...
04 Dec, 2021, 12.11 PM IST
Pokemon Go creator Niantic valued at $9 billion after Coatue's investmentNiantic plans to use the funds to expand its recently launched Lightship platform to help developers with their AR creations and build thei...
23 Nov, 2021, 11.19 AM IST
Disney wants to become the happiest place in the metaverseWalt Disney CEO Bob Chapek said the entertainment conglomerate is preparing to make the technological leap into a virtual reality world fir...
11 Nov, 2021, 10.30 AM IST
Mickey Mouse in metaverse? Disney wants to take the tech leap into a virtual reality worldDisney’s former executive vice president of digital wrote on LinkedIn in 2020 about creating a theme park metaverse.
11 Nov, 2021, 09.33 AM IST
Still scrambling to understand what metaverse is? Let this 8-year-old help you decipher the new buzzwordMark Zuckerberg made his move to colonise metaverse by rebranding Facebook as Meta.
10 Nov, 2021, 05.51 PM IST
Metaverse pioneers unimpressed by Facebook rebrandThe term metaverse has become a tech buzzword this year, with companies and investors keen to be a part of the next big thing. But users ha...
02 Nov, 2021, 10.45 AM IST
Metaverse pioneers unimpressed by Facebook rebrandThe term metaverse has become a tech buzzword this year, with companies and investors keen to be a part of the next big thing. But users ha...
01 Nov, 2021, 08.41 PM IST
What is the 'metaverse' and why is it taking off? Everything you need to knowThe concept of the metaverse is quickly becoming a buzzword in technology and business. But what does it mean?
19 Oct, 2021, 08.56 AM IST
Into the mysterious world of Metaverse, a fully realised digital space that exists beyond the analogThe metaverse refers to a variety of virtual experiences, environments and assets that gained momentum during the online-everything shift o...
13 Jul, 2021, 03.50 PM IST