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Is Hollywood ready for the 3-D internet? Big questions with ‘Metaverse’ author Matthew Ball

Whether you like it or not, the metaverse is coming. That’s one of the many takeaways from investor and author Matthew Ball’s new book, “The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything,” which attempts to provide a roadmap for the metaverse and explain what it means for the future of the internet. In “The Metaverse,” which publishes next week, he …

Restaurants’ virtual stores test consumers’ appetite for metaverse marketing

Fast-food chains Wendy’s Co. and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. are testing new experiences in virtual worlds as brands try to better understand the marketing potential of the metaverse. The concept has drawn attention particularly since the parent company of Facebook last year promised to spend heavily on building the metaverse and changed its name to Meta Platforms Inc. Wendy’s last …

Why luxury brands want a metaverse future

The metaverse vision for the internet is far from reality, but brands from Ferrari to Nike are already rushing in to experiment and build an audience, in part for fear of missing out. "I think a lot of it is experimentation," said Ryan Mullins, founder of virtual sneaker app Aglet. Nike had already opened "Nikeland", a virtual showroom on Roblox, …

Brands no longer see metaverse-like worlds as abstract gimmicks

Brands had been toying with the metaverse for some time before Facebook’s recent name change turned the term into a household word. “Facebook saying, ‘We’re going to put $10 billion into this,’ I think provides a lot of incremental confidence that this would be a worthwhile experiment," said Brian Wieser, global president of business intelligence at GroupM, a media-buying company …

Metaverse universe: Realty and luxury brands wait for you to splash crypto cash

It is not real yet but things are moving along at a feverish pace. Real estate, fashion, entertainment, and gaming companies are making a beeline for the next big upgrade to the internet If you thought only tech companies have ambitions for the metaverse future, that wouldn’t be true. Real estate, fashion, entertainment, and gaming companies are making a beeline …

Nike Gets Serious About Metaverse, Builds Virtual World Nikeland With Roblox

New Delhi: Sportswear giant Nike is also ambitious about metaverse as it has collaborated with Roblox to create Nikeland, a virtual world, as the battle in this space heats up. Nikeland virtual worlds will be free for now, according to reports. The metaverse is a shared virtual space where the real and virtual worlds merge into one. Meanwhile, earlier this …

The next big internet revolution: what is the metaverse?

Imagine a world where you could sit on the same couch as a friend who lives thousands of miles away, or conjure up a virtual version of your workplace while at the beach. The metaverse is, in fact, the stuff of science-fiction: the term was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel "Snow Crash", in which people don virtual …

'No one shares ordinary': Gucci digitally outfits Gen-Z in metaverse foray with Roblox