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Kim Nevelsteen wants to bridge different virtual worlds to create the Metaverse

The Ghost Howls

We all dream of the Metaverse , a fantastic online virtual world where we can all hang out with other people and do whatever we want. And even worse, these virtual worlds are like silos: they don’t talk to each other, they are separate the one from the others, they are not connected in any way. What is your job?

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New VR boots aim to make walking realistic for job training

Hypergrid Business

The company website  states that Ekto VR is bridging the skills gap by simulating full-scale working environments, and their demo video shows some virtual onsite training. One 2004 study from Japan states that the sensation of walking affects the way our brains process distance and movement.

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Former Myspace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro Leaves Google to Found.

AllThingsVR

The company, which was incorporated in August and doesn’t have a website yet, aims to make the world “more magical,” according to a recent Facebook post by Shapiro, who also said that it is “building a metaverse” — a term commonly associated with virtual worlds like Second Life. Before that, he was CTO of Myspace Music.

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Editorial: How the Crypto Crash—and Meta’s Missteps—Are Souring the General Public on the Metaverse

Ryan Schultz

As somebody who writes about social VR and flatscreen virtual worlds on this blog, with a popular Discord server packed with metaverse fanatics and a front-row seat on pretty much everything that has been happening in this space, let me tell you, the past twelve months have been a wild ride.