Grammy meet Roblox

Grammy meet Roblox

The Oscars might have gone for the good old fashioned stage fight, but The Recording Academy went for a very different effect. In partnership with Mastercard, it teamed up with Roblox to bring a Grammy experience to the Metaverse. There were avatars to meet and greet,...
Your Local Metaverse Banking Branch

Your Local Metaverse Banking Branch

Bankers are the latest to set up shop in the metaverse. Most prominently, at JP Morgan’s salon in Decentraland, which is called the Onyx Lounge, you can be mildly entertained by a portrait of Jamie Dimon, a wandering tiger and a couple of displays talking about...
1 Million Lawyers and Other Metaverse Disasters

1 Million Lawyers and Other Metaverse Disasters

Just as in real life, the metaverse is going to make a lot of lawyers a lot of money. Let’s say you bought a Bored Ape NFT. Because you own the ape NFT, can you open a restaurant in its image? Could you make “Bored Ape: The Movie?” Clothing apparel? The King of NFT...
Hardware Makes the Metaverse Go Round

Hardware Makes the Metaverse Go Round

As we head into a Web 3 immersive or metaverse world (insert your favorite word), where every moment is monetized and recorded on a whopping long blockchain, someone’s got to be making some mighty hardware to power the experience. Recent hardware announcements: Ian...