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 ...

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 ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last year, Spatial unveiled its social augmented reality workspace on ...

Viverse, the open computing platform for virtual worlds from HTC Corp., today announced the release of a suite of tools that will give creators the ability to build and share immersive multiplayer ...

SIMA 2, which can figure out how to solve problems inside virtual worlds, could lead to more general-purpose agents and ...

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 ...

The 3D virtual world has generated lots of buzz during the last couple years and while some observers are still wondering what to make of the new wave of immersive technology, a company called NAVER Z ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...