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Taking Action Against Serious Crimes In The Metaverse

VRScout

During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Omar Sultan Al Olama, a Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates, talked about some of these concerns. He believes that governments should step in and create new laws to protect people in the metaverse.

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Russia Bans Facebook & Instagram, Quest Sees Ripple Effects

Road to VR

The Russian government opened a criminal probe last week against Meta in hopes of classifying it as an “extremist organization,” which Business Insider reports may see a complete prohibition of its activities in Russia. And that would probably go for Quest users and developers alike.

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TransVisionMadrid 2022:Cryonics First Response (CFR) Training

XROM

This will be the first CFR (Cryonics First Response) training to be organized in Spain, after some smaller similar events during previous years in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Visit the campus of the Instituto Europeo , and find its location in central Madrid.

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China Taps 5G for Industry 4.0 amid XR, Metaverse Race

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Chinese Embassy in Switzerland (@ChinaEmbinCH) August 10, 2022. The news follows developments for the Shanghai City Government, who revealed in mid-July it planned to back its huge metaverse plan by 2025, outlining the details in a policy paper earlier in the month in line with its Five-Year Plan.

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Cyber Apocalypse 2023: Is the World Heading For A “Catastrophic” Event?

Bernard Marr

As the 2023 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum wrapped up in Davos, Switzerland, it ended with a disturbing prediction from one of the leading voices. In the run-up to the 2022 invasion, 288,000 attempted cyberattacks were detected against Ukrainian businesses and government infrastructure. What can we do?

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Funding Roundup: Tactical Haptics Raises $2.2M, nDreams Raises.

AllThingsVR

3) Oculus parent company Facebook acquired Zurich Eye , a Switzerland-based group formed of members of the University of Zurich and another university, EMT Zurich. 4) HTC is making yet more moves in China, announcing a partnership with the Shenzhen Municipal Government to kick off two new initiatives. Read more on UploadVR.

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Ukraine's everyday heroes are owning social media

Mashable VR

While naive commentators calling this the first social media conflict are wide of the mark — Syria and Afghanistan's civil wars would like a word — there's little doubt the immediacy of these videos helped galvanize a speedy global response that even includes the formerly neutral nation of Switzerland.

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