OMA3 offers users a way to easily travel between Metaverse worlds
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Accenture on boarded over 150,000 new hires in the Metaverse
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Using virtual reality is one way to on board new hires faster and more cost effectively, and Accenture are keeping the model going. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Virtual reality helps bell Helicopter design new aircraft 90 percent faster
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to create new concepts and products in 10% of the time it used to take radically accelerates the rate of global innovation. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Luma AI brings photo realistic virtual worlds closer to reality
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We’re all used to the cartoon like VR worlds that dominate the Metaverse, but photo realistic worlds aren’t far away now … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
In a virtual first virtual offices in New York are being sold as NFTs
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This VR gadget lets you feel spiders on your face
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Criminals are eyeing up the metaverse already and planning chaos
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The metaverse will be a new frontier for criminals … and very very profitable despite everyone’s best efforts. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Barbados opens the world’s first recognised sovereign embassy in the metaverse
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Asides from establishing leadership in the metaverse opening the first official metaverse embassy sends a powerful message about the future of so called “Technology Diplomacy.” Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Digital design studio The Fabricant lets everyone become a Metaverse fashion designer
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Zaha Hadid architects lay out plans for a giant libertarian city in the metaverse
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today individuals can create giant social, software, or E-Commerce platforms, tomorrow they could build, run, and own everything that goes on in an entire virtual city … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
Queen Mary university students become the first to have lectures in the Metaverse
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most education systems are stuck in the industrial age teaching students traditional skills in traditional ways that haven’t evolved much for a century. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Over 7 million people have visited Nike’s metaverse store as digital sales soar
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The metaverse is coming, slowly, and in the meantime brands should think of it as another digital sales channel. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
REK’s phydigital sports arenas prove the future of sports is mixed reality
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By combining virtual and physical worlds together REK have created something potentially awesome … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Cix Liv, the developer behind...
JPMorgan opens the world’s first bank branch in the Metaverse
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more people live and spend more time in the Metaverse they’ll buy more digital goods and realty, and those will need a new kind of loan so JPMorgan wants to beat the competition to that market. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential...
New VR boots finally let users walk forever in virtual reality for real
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you’re fed up of standing in one place and waving your arms to get anywhere in VR these cyberpunk boots are for you. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Anzu teams up with Roblox creators to bring ads to the Metaverse
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There is no escaping advertising even in the Metaverse where debates about regulations and privacy will likely take years to begin … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Walmart patents show it’s mulling entering the Metaverse with own NFTs and crypto
WHY THIS MATTERS The metaverse is potentially a multi-trillion dollar opportunity – eventually – and companies are experimenting and laying their stakes already. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. When...
Microsoft becomes the first major tech company to hold a VR keynote session
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Virtual Reality is still a relatively nascent technology but it’s improving and being adopted faster than ever. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Microsoft recently...
In a world first doctors use VR to help parents visualise their child’s surgery
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Virtual Reality can be used by healthcare professionals to help them create empathy and explain the impact of surgical procedures on others. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Accenture created a VR “Nth Floor” to bring remote teams together during the pandemic
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