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Brands Say Everybody’s Wrong, Actually the Metaverse Looks Great

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Eminem and Snoop Dogg took to the stage at this year's MTV Music Video Awards (MVAs) to perform their hit single "From the D 2 the LBC," a NFT-laden anthem.

Snoop Dogg Did a Song in the “Metaverse” and His Bling Kept Clipping Through His Torso

By Victor Tangermann

Cursed Filter Turns Anyone Into Metaverse Mark Zuckerberg

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People Bullied Mark Zuckerberg So Much That He’s Improving the Metaverse Graphics

By Victor Tangermann

Meet me in the metaverse. Virtual reality dating is here, and as The New York Times reports, it's growing — and frankly, it sounds, uh, super weird.

People Are Going on Dates in the Metaverse and It Sounds Very Strange

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Zuckerberg’s Lifeless Metaverse Avatar Is Comically Different From the One He Advertised

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's no way to sugarcoat it. Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse — into which Meta has been pouring billions — bot unfathomably bad.

Wave of Criticism Hits Zuckerberg’s Metaverse for Looking Like Crap

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of researchers may have developed a VR headset that actually resembles normal eyeglasses — and not, you know, heavy, oversized scuba goggles.

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Researchers Develop a VR Headset That’s Barely Thicker Than a Pair of Glasses

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Isness-D — a therapeutic VR experience — reportedly works just as well as medium doses of LSD or psilocybin at bringing users to self-transcendence.

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This Therapeutic VR Experience is Just Like Tripping on Acid

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a cringey video shared by Facebook parent company Meta's VR department on Twitter, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hands look very strange.

New Metaverse Vid Makes Zuckerberg’s Hands Look Super Strange

By Victor Tangermann

He dropped $18,000 on the Khorum Coast, a virtual property found in Entropia Universe, saying he hopes to see a return on his investment in just four years.

Man Uses Life Savings to Buy Nonexistent Metaverse Land

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a recent review by TechRadar, a new full body VR suit with 90 electrodes sounds like a wild experience.

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VR Company Shows Off Full-Body Suit That Electrocutes You Everywhere

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have come up with a new way to cause objects to levitate using sound waves alone, an impressive feat of mixed-reality technology.

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Scientists Are Getting Better and Better at Levitating Objects With Sound Waves

By Victor Tangermann

These might be major moves towards providing future users with a virtual reality system that human visual processes interpret as "real."

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Zuckerberg Shows Off VR Headsets Designed to Be “Indistinguishable From Reality”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Does virtual reality nature have the same positive health effects that IRL nature does? A new study used virtual reality to put plants in a city.

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Scientists Use Virtual Reality to Add Green Plants to Urban Hell

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A United Arab Emirates’ official warned that committing serious crimes including "murder" should be made illegal in the metaverse.

UAE Official Says Murder Should Be Illegal in the Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's dream of the metaverse is as incoherent as ever, following an 8,000 word essay posted by Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta.

In Extremely Confusing Twist, Facebook Says It Isn’t Building a Metaverse After All

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like the Facebook Metaverse gambit may be showing more signs of implosion.

Facebook Reportedly Already Running Out of Money for Metaverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have created a special device that can trick you into feeling like a spider is crawling across your mouth.

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Rejoice! Scientists Say Amazing Technology Can Make You Feel VR Spiders Crawling on Your Mouth

By Victor Tangermann

A new report states Mark Zuckerberg is obsessed with devloping Facebook's metaverse products and contents and is sowing internal chaos.

Facebook Employees Say Mark Zuckerberg Is Weirdly Obsessed With the Metaverse

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Facebook has announced plans to monetize its Metaverse — and creators are extremely irate at how large a cut the company intends to take.

Zuckerberg Dogpiled Over Plans to Monetize the Metaverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Japanese startup wants you to be able to feel pain inside the metaverse through a wristband that electrically stimulates its wearer's muscles.

Startup Says Its Tech Can Inflict Actual Pain in the Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

Heineken released a virtual beer in the metaverse and served edible gold and lobster, but one writer who attended wasn't impressed.

Heineken’s Metaverse Event Was So Awful, Even Tabloids Want Out

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In the video showcasing the concept, you can see the AR layer displaying your likely win percentage based on your hand in a game of Texas Hold ‘Em.

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Amazing Augmented Reality Demo Automatically Counts Cards at Poker

By Tony Ho Tran

A group of users on the metaverse platform VRChat have created a police force to question, arrest, and occasionally frame other users for crimes.

VR Cops Brag About Planting Fake Evidence in Metaverse While Disguised as Underage Girls

By Tony Ho Tran

A decades-old metaverse is introducing sales tax for the first time since its inception nearly 20 years ago, setting a precedent for taxation in the many burgeoning metaverses.

Uh Oh: The Metaverse Is Already Being Slammed by Sales Tax

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mark Zuckerberg has a newsflash for us all: the Metaverse is less of a place than a point in time.

Mark Zuckerberg Gives Galaxy-Brained Explanation of Metaverse’s Impending Singularity

By Noor Al-Sibai

A researcher posing as a 13-year-old child was able to gain access to a virtual strip club via a metaverse app called VRChat.

Turns Out It’s Really Easy for Kids to Visit Sex Clubs in the Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

Fans Say the Foo Fighters’ Metaverse Concert Was A Total Disaster

Fans Say the Foo Fighters’ Metaverse Concert Was A Total Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

Aviva, a UK-based insurance company, says that it has seen a 31 percent spike in home accident claims involving VR headsets in 2021, The Guardian reports. It’s also seen a 68 percent rise in such claims since 2016.

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Insurance Company Says VR Headsets Are Causing Spike in Smashed TVs

By Tony Ho Tran

Child safety experts are sounding the alarm on the metaverse saying that it will attract sexual predators preying on kids using apps such as Horizon Worlds.

Experts Warn of Child Predators in Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

Renowned public speaker and NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway ripped Meta and Mark Zuckerberg in an interview after stock prices fell drastically.

Famous Marketing Professor Calls Facebook’s Metaverse a “Flaming Bag of S**t”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

More people are getting injured using virtual reality headsets than ever before because, well, more people are buying them than ever before.

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Virtual Reality Users Keep Suffering Horrible Injuries

By Noor Al-Sibai

A clip uploaded by NFT enthusiast and blockchain CTO Alex Moss purportedly shows a "live rave" taking place inside Meta's VR playground for adults.

Metaverse “Rave” Shows People Standing Perfectly Still With Zero Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Some folks are worried Meta and Mark Zuckerberg might have ulterior motives in the Metaverse. Here's a roundup of excellent Metaverse memes.

The Most Brutal Memes About How the Metaverse Will Trap Us in a Human Meat Farm

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Phil Libin, founder of note-taking app Evernote who grew up in the Soviet Union, says that Meta's Metaverse is like communist propaganda.

CEO Born in Soviet Russia Says Metaverse Is Just Like Communist Propaganda

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook's iteration of the metaverse is set to get a lot less glitchy — and have a lot more privacy concerns.

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Facebook Locks Down Patents for Full-Body VR Tracking

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some parents are growing concerned of the impact of VR gaming might have on their children as VR headsets become more and more popular.

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Parents Alarmed by Children Slicing Off Enemies’ Limbs in VR

By Tony Ho Tran

One futurist believes that “a large proportion of people will be in the metaverse in some way” and will live most of their lives "jacked in" by 2030

Expert Says People Will Soon Live Entire Lives in Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

A farmer in Turkey has purchased special VR headsets for his cows so they'll produce more milk and be less anxious. It seems to be working.

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Farmer Puts VR Headsets on Cows to Simulate Green Pastures

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Meta announced a slate of big name virtual reality concerts set to take place entirely in the metaverse last month — and nobody seemed to notice.

Facebook Hosted Three Huge Concerts in the Metaverse and They Seriously Flopped

By Tony Ho Tran

Another Oculus Quest 2 user had an intense allergic reaction to the VR headset's facial foam interface over the holiday, resulting in a hospital trip after Christmas for 13-year-old Lewis Gray.

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Christmas Present VR Headset Sends Boy to the Hospital

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In an interview with conservative Christian satire website The Babylon Bee, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a stab at the concept of the Metaverse.

Elon Musk Says the Metaverse Sucks and Neuralink Will Be Better

By Victor Tangermann

Meta's virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds has barely made it out to the public and beta testers are already being sexually harassed.

Sexual Assault Is Already Happening in the Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

Princeton Researchers Create Terrifying VR Simulation of Nuke Attack to Train US Officials

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Princeton Researchers Create Terrifying VR Simulation of Nuke Attack to Train US Officials

By Tony Ho Tran

Philip Rosedale, the founder of the virtual world “Second Life,” who recently spoke to Time about his insights on building metaverses.

Creator of “Second Life” Issues Warnings for Those Building Metaverses

By Tony Ho Tran

Somebody paid roughly $650,000 in ethereum for an NFT yacht sold by developer Republic Realm in the metaverse platform The Sandbox.

Someone Paid $650,000 for a Nonexistent Yacht in the Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

The "land" purchased is located in Decentraland's Fashion Street district and paid 618,000 MANA, an Ethereum-based token used as currency in Decentraland.

Plot of Metaverse “Land” Sells for $2.4 Million

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A handy guide to talking about the metaverse with your friends, parents, and weird cousins this Thanksgiving at the table.

How to Talk to Your Family About the Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

Facebook Shows Off Gloves That Allow You to “Feel” VR Objects

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Facebook Shows Off Gloves That Allow You to “Feel” VR Objects

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO behind "Pokemon Go" believes that the metaverse is going to be a dystopian nightmare — but wants to help people build a better version of it.

Pokémon Go Creator Fears “Dystopian Nightmare” Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

An innovator in early AR systems has a dire prediction: the metaverse could destroy reality as we know it.

AR Pioneer Warns That Metaverse Could Make “Reality Disappear”

By Tony Ho Tran

A top VR developer at Facebook sounds like he's not entirely on board with the company's refocus on the metaverse -- and his remarks were interesting.

Facebook’s Top VR Expert Seems Pretty Annoyed by Metaverse Push

By Jon Christian

Facebook hardware insiders told The New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac that "this is going to take a long time, i.e. breakthroughs in physics, etc."

Facebook Hardware Devs Reportedly Skeptical of Metaverse

By Victor Tangermann

Neural Network Is Frighteningly Good at Drawing Cthulhu

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Neural Network Is Frighteningly Good at Drawing Cthulhu

By Tony Ho Tran

VR Strip Clubs Have an Advantage: Dancers Can Accept Money for Sex

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VR Strip Clubs Have an Advantage: Dancers Can Accept Money for Sex

By Tony Ho Tran

Burning Man has moved entirely online for 2021 over COVID concerns, allowing festival goers to roam the the space from the comfort of their own home.

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Burning Man Is Completely in Virtual Reality This Year

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, found that virtual reality can affect the way a player senses time.

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You Perceive Time Differently in Virtual Reality, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook is starting to squeeze ads into the magical virtual reality environments enabled by its Oculus Quest VR headset.

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Dystopian Marketers, Unite: Facebook to Start Dropping Ads Into VR Spaces

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during an internal Q&A that any employee who wants one could expense an Oculus Quest 2 to the company.

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Facebook Is Giving a VR Headset to Every Employee Who Wants One

By Dan Robitzski

Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that the tech company's upcoming augmented reality glasses could become a surprisingly intrusive part of every day life.

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The CEO of Apple Thinks People Will Use Augmented Reality for Something Absolutely Hilarious

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft has been awarded a massive contract to supply the US Army with more than 120,000 augmented reality headsets, MSNBC reports.

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Microsoft Is Selling $21.9 Billion of AR Headsets to the US Army

By Victor Tangermann

According to the latest rumors, Apple's virtual reality headset will incredibly light, weighing in at less than 150 grams, less than an iPhone 12.

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New Details Leak About Apple’s Virtual Reality Headset

By Victor Tangermann

A creator on YouTube created a CGI version of himself using a powerful new app — and used it to prank his friends on a video call.

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This Guy Made a CGI Version of Himself to Fool His Friends on Videochat

By Tony Ho Tran