You don’t have to be a Snow Crash or Tron fan to be familiar with the 3D craze that characterized the rise of the Internet and the World Wide Web in particular. From phrases like ‘surfing the ...

When Mark Zuckerberg announced the rebranding of Facebook to its new moniker Meta on Oct 28th, 2021, millions globally were captivated by his Pixar-style demonstration of how they envisioned the ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As this is the final piece of our “Building the Metaverse” series, I find ...

Over the last few years, there has been increasing interest in 3D online games and virtual worlds. In fact, fully 3D social spaces have been around at least since the mid-1980s, and some would argue ...

Banks like JPMorgan are mostly on Decentraland—a 3D virtual world run by the nonprofit—to learn. The largest US bank, JPMorgan Chase, is the first financial institution to open a customer lounge in ...

Internet giant Google has launched its own 3D virtual world, called Lively. Similar to Linden Labs' Second Life, users are able to create avatars and socialise in specially created spaces. Users are ...

Compared to its predecessor, the new Marble model has achieved significant improvements in geometric complexity, spatial ...

A company called Genkii is hoping to rope a chunk of the 40-million worldwide web-connected phones and iTouches into a new 3D avatar-based virtual world, Sparkle. Too bad virtual worlds died around 4 ...

Nvidia Corp. took the stage today at the ACM SIGGRAPH computer graphics and technology conference in Los Angeles to announce advances in tools that developers will use to create the metaverse and ...

Nortel said the acquisition of Mesa, Ariz.-based DiamondWare, which makes technology that claims to bring life-like sound to virtual Web and voice communications, helps the Ontario-based networking ...

Developers of 3D virtual worlds and multiplayer games may soon have access to tools that would allow them to build connected, promotional 2D, Flash versions of the same games. These new tools are at ...

James has been writing about cars professionally since 2012. After a bruising period freelancing in his native UK, James spent six years in Dubai, starting his new life abroad as Web Editor for ...