But what if the metaverse turns out to be merely an updated version of Second Life? While the metaverse uses much more powerful technology than Second Life, and is an open system—more like the ...

Having written about technology for a decade and a half I've received some pretty quirky pitches and, more recently, a boatload of them (if not all of them) are about – you guessed it – the ...

But the short life and ignominious death of the Metaverse offers a glaring indictment ... into blowing billions of dollars on a hype cycle founded on the flimsiest possible press-release language.

Pharmaceuticals and life science is such a big ... “I think pronouncing the metaverse dead is great because it's just part of the usual hype cycle,” he says. “Everything has its initial ...

It’s Now Taking On Big Tech’s Metaverse Second Life – yes, the virtual world from the ‘00s – is staging a comeback to challenge tech giants like Meta that are throwing billions into the ...

Some experts say that rapes and murders in the metaverse "might have to be treated as criminal offences because of the real-life impact on the victims", the London Evening Standard reported last ...