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Facebook Announces $50M Research & Partnership Fund to “build the metaverse responsibly”

Back in July Facebook announced that it had spun up a new organization internally to begin building part of the…

Facebook Creates New Internal Organization to Build “the Metaverse”

Facebook Reality Labs, the company's AR/VR research and development team, announced the creation of a special product group focused on…

VR Education Platform ‘ENGAGE’ Raises $10.7M to Build ‘Oasis’ Metaverse for Business

VR Education Holdings, the company behind the social VR platform ENGAGE, announced it's raised €9 million (~$10.7 million) which will…

Epic Games Secures $1B Investment to Build Its Unreal Engine-powered Metaverse

Epic Games, the company known for its hit battle royale title Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine, has managed to attract…

Mozilla to Launch ‘Hubs Cloud’ as a First Step Toward an Open Web-based Metaverse

Mozilla Hubs is the company's impressive WebXR social app which allows users from almost any device (VR or not) to…

Scape Raises $8M for Visual Positioning System Which Could be a Key Component of the AR Metaverse

Scape Technologies announced last week that it has raised an $8 million seed investment for a visual positioning system that…

Updates on the Decentralized Metaverse: WebXR, A-Frame, & ‘Supermedium’

I visited Mozilla's offices last October to chat with A-Frame co-creator & co-maintainer Diego Marcos about the current state of…

British Series ‘Kiss Me First’ Set in a Futuristic VR Metaverse, Coming to Netflix

In the wake of Steven Spielberg's latest film Ready Player One (2018) comes a new Netflix series set in the…

Watch: NeosVR “Metaverse Engine” World Building in Action, Latest Version Adds Cloud Functionality

Solirax's latest alpha release of its collaborative "metaverse engine" NeosVR has reached an important milestone, adding the ability to save…

VR Metaverse Company High Fidelity Raises $22 Million in New Funding

Uncovered among recent regulatory filings, VR metaverse company High Fidelity has raised $22 million in new funding. (more…)

Mozilla on Enabling the Open Metaverse with WebVR, A-Frame, and Servo

Some of the earliest experiments of making VR a first-class citizen on the web originated at Mozilla in 2014. Then…

An Inflection Point for WebVR and the Open Metaverse

There's been a couple of key developments in the evolution of WebVR during the month of October. First, Nate Mitchell…

Rendering the Metaverse with Otoy’s Volumetric Lightfield Streaming

Digital lightfields are a cutting-edge technology that can render photorealistic VR scenes, and Otoy has been a pioneer of the…

Building the Metaverse at Internet-Scale with ‘High Fidelity’

Philip Rosedale has been working with virtual worlds for a long time, having founded Second Life back nearly 13 years…

Open vs Closed Metaverse: Project Sansar & The New Experiential Age

Linden Lab's Second Life has been one of the largest and most successful virtual world ecosystems with nearly 13 years…