South Korea’s Woori Bank Launches Metaverse Banking Experience
Woori Bank has launched a 3D metaverse banking service for small businesses. The Korean commercial banking giant is joining a growing list of financial institutions that have launched metaverse experiences.
McDonald’s Will Enter Metaverse This Lunar New Year
For a Lunar New Year campaign, McDonald’s has collaborated with Karen X Cheng, a well-known digital content creator. Cheng’s work frequently goes viral and incorporates AI and AR, as well as a variety of cutting-edge technologies.
FuzionX Launches Multiple Campaigns Ahead of Vita Inu Listing
$VINU the underlying utility and governance token of the Vita Inu ecosystem, will be listed on FuzionX. Vita Inu is a digital fashion brand and the first meme coin to appear on the metaverse.
Bill Gates Dismisses the Metaverse’s Potential To Achieve Internet-Style Growth
Bill Gates downplayed the growth of web3 and the metaverse, instead backing artificial intelligence as the next revolutionary technology.
Shanghai Two Sessions: Metaverse Development Requires Stronger Supervision
Metaverse was discussed at Shanghai’s Two Sessions this week, the city’s most influential annual political meetings, where a delegate called for more regulatory efforts toward the supervision and development of metaverses.
Apple and the Metaverse: Everything We Know So Far
Tech giants see huge opportunity in the metaverse—the name given to a future, more immersive vision of the internet with potential real-world ties. Facebook parent Meta has bet big on the prospect, as its rebrand suggests, while Microsoft has both teamed with Meta and tried acquiring a major game publisher (if the FTC approves) as it builds momentum in the space. The iPhone and Mac maker has famously taken a unique approach to hardware and software design, even incorporating its “Think Different” ethos into its marketing. As the metaverse takes shape through new hardware and online worlds—some of which will be built with interoperable Web3 tech like NFTs—Apple may again forge its own path. (Decrypt)
The Rise of Embedded-Web3 Applications
Web3 is the ownership layer of the internet, not an evolution of web2 or a metaverse, either.
UniPass Partners With Ultiverse, Aim to Get More Web2 Users to Metaverse
UniPass has published an official blog post to announce its strategic collaboration with Ultiverse. The collaboration comes with a mutual objective of onboarding a billion users to the Metaverse, a virtual world that is gaining traction across the globe, especially in terms of gaming.
Metaverse Can Build Access for Big Companies, Says Virtual Brand Group CEO
The metaverse provides big companies an opportunity to expand and leverage their position in the world of commerce, according to Justin Hochberg, CEO of metaverse building company Virtual Brand Group (VBG).
Industrial Metaverse Platform Worlds Raises $21M in Series A1 Funding
Worlds Enterprises, Inc., a company that creates infrastructure for building the metaverse, has completed a $21 million Series A funding round led by Moneta Ventures. Additional participants include existing investors Align Capital, Green Park & Golf Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Piva Capital, PerotJain, and Capital Factory.
