May 20, 2022 today at 01:00 The metaverse, an interconnected set of digital and physical reality environments, would be the next phase of the Internet. How do you respond to this as an investor, without being the victim of a new bubble? The Internet has already gone through several phases. We evolved from text-heavy static … Read more
Will the metaverse be the next incarnation of the Internet? Who knows. But while even Microsoft says it’s investing in this, the question remains what exactly that metaverse entails. This does not mean that security and privacy are fundamental in this new virtual world. Because consumers, businesses, and governments may have literally unprecedented opportunities, but … Read more
May 19, 2022 today at 01:00 The Smurfs are almost 65 years old, but they are moving with the times. Blue dwarfs now also have a village in the metaverse. ‘The Sandbox is growing as a successful city.’ The Sandbox is a young virtual world where you can buy and sell plots of virtual land … Read more
In the Metaverse, the digital and physical worlds come together. Yin and Yang in harmony side by side. The Metaverse is not 3D or 2D, or even necessarily graphic. It is about the dematerialization of physical space, distance and objects. The digital part of the Metaverse is a massively scalable and interoperable network of real-time … Read more
May 18, 2022 today at 05:00 The Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen (Howest) has all the in-house training courses to help build the metaverse. This includes internationally acclaimed training for game creators. Companies show great interest in collaboration. Howest has three courses that are immediately relevant to the development of the metaverse, a set of digital environments where … Read more
Try your luck! Play smarter! gain! If Legal Protection Minister Franc Weerwind (D66) makes good on his promise and tackles the onslaught of online gambling advertising, can he stop cryptocurrency investment ads in one fell swoop? For most people, investing in cryptocurrencies is an ordinary gamble. A bet that can go wrong, as for the … Read more
May 17, 2022 today at 17:14 The concepts of ‘metaverse’ and ‘NFT’ are reaching a wide audience. But the metaverse is seen primarily as a form of entertainment with a trust issue, according to a Belgian study. Roughly seven in ten Belgians (69%) say they understand what the metaverse is, according to Sortlist. That Belgian … Read more
01 March 2022 today at 07:28 Silicon Valley is talking about the ‘metaverse’. This means that we will spend much of our lives in a digital environment. Horror or future music? You can try it now. We will be working, learning, playing, attending events and hanging out in virtual environments, said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of … Read more
May 16, 2022 today at 17:55 Hundreds of millions of euros are spent on virtual land. In digital environments, people speculate on land, but they also work on real estate projects. How does that really happen? A few weeks ago, the American Yuga Labs sold virtual land for 320 million euros. Yuga Labs is known … Read more
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), land purchases in the metaverse, and countless digital currencies. They are all manifestations of the enormous hype surrounding the much-discussed blockchain technology. Blockchain technology essentially boils down to a collectively stored decentralized digital database. The successive digital blocks that make up the blockchain refer, among other things, to immutable information encoded within … Read more
