18October2021 Explainer-What Is the ‘Metaverse’? Facebook said on Monday that it will hire 10,000 people in Europe to help it build a “metaverse”. The concept of the metaverse is quickly becoming a buzzword in technology... Read more
16October2021 Art and nature collide as visitors ‘see the invisible’ at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens The gardens recently opened a new exhibit called ‘Seeing the Invisible’. It is an international collaboration among 12 botanical gardens across six countries that features 13 international artists and their... Read more
14October2021 Dubai’s ColossalBit makes history with winning bid of $56,000 for the world’s first augmented reality NFT mural Dubai-based ColossalBit Management Consultancies, a leading Middle East consulting and advisory company for Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and NFTs, has made history by placing the winning bid on the NFT image of... Read more
13October2021 The Art World’s Technological Revolution Is Coming. Here’s What a Truly Networked Art Market Will Look Like It’s 2029. You are strolling through the Art X Lagos fair and pass by a life-size hologram of David Zwirner engaging a group of IRL collectors in a lively back-and-forth... Read more
12October2021 SAP, JFF Labs, and Talespin Launch Skill Immersion Lab for Immersive Learning Soft Skills Software group SAP knows that the world needs smart people. But, being smart isn’t always enough. A growing body of research shows that we need “soft skills” too. These are... Read more
11October2021 SuperWorld Presents “AMAZONIA,” An NFT Art & Social Impact Project In The Amazon Rainforest The virtual world platform SuperWorld today released “AMAZONIA,” an art exhibition and NFT gallery in augmented reality (AR). Produced In partnership with MONOGRAMA, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), the exhibit... Read more
10October2021 Popular Hallowe’en trail returns for a fortnight of free spooktacular family fun Following the success of the last It’s in Nottingham’s Halloween event in 2019, which saw more than 1,000 families travel into the city centre to take part, Nottingham Business Improvement... Read more
9October2021 Ohio University Launches Virtual Reality and Game Development Major If you want to build a career in immersive technologies, you can start by getting your degree in this field. Starting this fall, Ohio University is offering a Virtual Reality... Read more
8October2021 Is NFT a modern art movement, seriously? Great art often has humble beginnings. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is widely regarded as a father of modern abstract art, but he wasn’t always a hit with critics. They’d write: This... Read more
8October2021 The First Augmented NFT App Drops on Apple iOS Today an anonymous group of Banksy-inspired cryptoartists calling themselves, Masters of the Metaverse, have just announced a new Ethereum blockchain art project, MetaSapien The collection will feature 10,101 animated 3D... Read more
