18 People Spent 40 Hours ‘Working’ in Virtual Reality and Hated It
A newly published first-of-its-kind study put 18 people in virtual reality for a full 40-hour work week. The results were far from indicating virtual reality has a chance to become a new paradigm of the...
You’ll Raise Virtual Children in the Metaverse and Pay for the Privilege: AI Expert
Commentary A new book by an artificial intelligence expert has made the prediction that future human beings will no longer have real families. Instead, they’ll own nothing and be happy as they instead raise virtual...
Japanese Startup Builds Electroshock Bracelet to Inflict Pain On Metaverse Users
A Japanese startup has created a bracelet that transfers and mimics bodily movements into virtual reality settings while also delivering to users haptic, virtually generated stimuli, such as pain. H2L, a Tokyo-based, Sony-backed startup that...
This Social Credit-Style Digital Currency App Tracks User Eye Movements to Ensure Ads are Watched
MoviePass, a discount movie ticketing service terminated in 2019, has come back as an thinly-veiled social credit and digital currency app that keeps track of customers' eye movements to ensure they keep their spectacles where...
‘Whistleblower’ Frances Haugen Calls Facebook’s Transition to Meta a ‘Distraction’
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen said Facebook’s recent renaming of its parent company to Meta was born out of profit over safety, calling it a “distraction” while others called the Metaverse project “dead on arrival.”...
‘Meta’ Trademark Dispute May Cost Zuckerberg $20 Million to Resolve
After changing its parent company’s name to “Meta”, Facebook could face a hefty price tag to continue using the name. A small PC company that has been using the trademark for a year prior to...
Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Aims To Be ‘Successor To the Mobile Internet’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced renaming the parent company responsible for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to Meta. Along with the name change, Zuckerberg plans to expand Meta from offering only social media platforms to...
