🔫 Apple is poised to bring metaverse mainstream and dominate the market
Apple’s biggest new hardware launch in decades happened on Feb. 2 when the Vision Pro spatial computer hit the United States market. Based on the reported preorder sales and the company’s history of hardware hits, there are plenty of reasons for metaverse enthusiasts to be optimistic for the future. The Apple Vision Pro is a spatial computing device that takes the form of an augmented reality headset.
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🖼 Sotheby’s to Auction Ether Rock NFT in Sealed Bid Event
Sotheby’s has announced that it is presenting Ether Rock, an early NFT collectible as a Sealed Auction, which will take place from February 14 to February 21. Only the bid that a person has to select the amount to bid and click “Place Bid,” submitted bid will be visible. The top bidder will be the one whose bid exceeds the current high bid. If not, the bidder will be able to see where their current bid stands, but not how much more they must bid to win the lot.
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🔫 Elastos joins forces with The Metaverse Bank
According to the official press release, the service is set to cover a range of applications, from eKYC banking verification to educational qualifications. Including professional references, age, resident or fiscal status, or any other credential that may be required. The decentralised verification process offers individuals complete autonomy over shared information, eliminating intermediaries. This ensures full control and privacy, with no data exchange or retention by third parties.
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🔫 Roblox Builds In-House LLM to Bring Real-Time Chat Translation to Metaverse
Roblox, an online gaming platform, has developed an AI-enabled real-time translation system that allows gamers to communicate via text with one another despite speaking different languages. The “unified translation model” is able to translate text messages at a base latency of 100 milliseconds, making for a seemingly seamless, instantaneous messaging process.
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🔫 Roblox Introduces Real-Time AI Translation on Metaverse to Overcome Language Barrier
Roblox revealed it has added automatic chat translations into its metaverse to allow users around the world to communicate without a problem, regardless of the language they speak. The new AI-based feature provides real-time translations of chat messages among users.According to CoinTelegraph, Roblox's artificial intelligence technology, which it calls the "unified translation model," currently supports 16 languages.
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🪙 Ethereum NFT collections outgrew ETH in January
January marked a month of growth; however, it was mainly for NFT collections. While ETH gained ~2% in the previous month, some of the top NFT collections grew more. For instance, Nansen NFT-500 and Blue-Chip 10 registered a growth in their value of 9.35% and 9.76%, respectively. ETH alone, the crypto is down by 1.09% in the last 24 hours, trading at $2,269.61. It further reflects an increase of 1.55% in the last 7 days and a fall of 1.38% in the last 30 days.
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🇯🇵 Japan Education Ministry Plans to Use Metaverse to Help Foreign Students Find Jobs After Graduating
The government plans to utilize the metaverse in a program to make it easier for exceptional foreign students to stay in Japan and enter the work force after graduating. The government has set a target employment rate of 60% for foreign students in Japan by the end of 2033. The rate rose steadily from 31.9% in fiscal 2013 to 48.0% in fiscal 2018, but has since leveled off, and was 46.5% in the latest available statistics from fiscal 2021.
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🔫 H&R Block Brings Block City to the Minecraft Metaverse
Today H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) announced the launch of a new tax-themed gaming experience in Minecraft that kicks off on Saturday, Feb. 3 with a live-streamed Minecraft Competitive League (MCL) competition at 2 p.m. EST. “Gaming and taxes are an unlikely pairing, which is exactly why we wanted to do this,” said Jill Cress, chief marketing and experience officer, H&R Block.
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🖼 ‘Quantum Cats’ Launch Faces Technical Glitches, Taproot Wizards Postpones NFT Sale
“Quantum Cats” Bitcoin NFTs was marred by technical issues, forcing the company to postpone the sale. Despite an initially successful minting of nearly 1,000 cats, server overload led to an unexpected delay, causing frustration among eager buyers.
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🖼 CoinDesk Brings Back 'Microcosms' NFT Consensus Ticket
CoinDesk has reopened minting of Microcosms, an NFT that rewards holders with tickets to Consensus for three years as well as other perks. Minting opened on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at 1 p.m. ET (18:00 UTC) at the price of 1 ETH and will remain open until Thursday, March 14, at 1 p.m. ET or until the collection sells out, whichever comes first.
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🔫 EA CEO Suggests an EA Sports Metaverse Is in the Works
The latest to discuss these ideas is Electronic Arts, with CEO Andrew Wilson responding to a question during today's earnings call about a potential EA Sports metaverse with what sounds a heck of a lot like a concrete plan to make one in the near future.
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🖼 Pudgy Penguins’ Ambitious NFT Licensing Tool ‘Overpass’
NFT leader Pudgy Penguins introduces a groundbreaking method for intellectual property (IP) licensing via its ‘Overpass’ tool, removing the complexities of traditional Web2 licensing structures. By collaborating with SaaSyLabs — renowned for its work on Yuga Labs’ ‘Made by Apes’ platform — the celebrated NFT project now makes it possible for NFT owners to license their IPs for merchandise hassle-free.
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🔫 Meta urges TRAI to set up regulatory sandboxes for metaverse
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🖼 Doodles and G-Shock Collabs for a NFT-Inspired Watch Collection
Doodles, the digital asset firm renowned for its vibrant and sought-after NFT collection, has joined forces with G-Shock, the luxury watch brand known for its durable and innovative designs. This partnership aims to launch an NFT-inspired watch collection that is not only a nod to the digital future but also a testament to the enduring appeal of high-quality craftsmanship.
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🖼 9GAG CEO buys Stephen Chow NFT at 3,155% premium to floor price
Ray Chan, the Hong Kongese co-founder and CEO of entertainment platform 9GAG, has purchased a Stephen Chow "Nobody" nonfungible token (NFT) at a price of 19.527 Ether ($47,300), representing a 3,155% premium over the collection's current floor price of 0.6 Ether ($1,450). The Nobody 889 "Monkey King" themed NFT has a special Sun trait present in less than 0.01% of the collectible series.
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🖼 Stephen Chow’s “Nobody” NFTs Reach 10,000 ETH in Trading Volume
Hong Kong movie director Stephen Chow launched an NFT collection titled “Nobody” on February 1 which has already reached nearly 10,000 ETH in trading volume on Opensea. At the time of writing, the collection has experienced trading activity of over 9,878 ETH (~ $22.8 million) with a daily volume of 2,699 Ether. In an X post published on February 7, Chow asked his followers for suggestions regarding potential Nobody community events. He also changed his profile picture on X and Instagram to a Nobody Avatar.
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🪙 Polkadot Sets New Record For NFT Minting Speed
Web3 protocol Polkadot has set a new blockchain speed record, minting 4,930 NFTs per minute, beating previous records set by Solana and Polygon. The record was achieved during an NFT drop for interactive storytelling game Forever Has Fallen, utilising Polkadot’s Unique Network parachain, which is tailored for composable NFTs.
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🖼 Japan Airlines and Hakuhodo to launch NFT collection
Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (JAL) and Hakuhodo Inc have partnered to develop a joint collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). According to a blog post by KOKYO NFT, the initiative, scheduled to launch in February 2024, aims to convert unique experiences from six regions of Japan into non-fungible tokens. In parallel with the upcoming challenge, an advertising campaign uses dynamic origami-themed NFTs.
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🔫 ‘Parallel’ Teases Open Beta Plans as New Ethereum NFT Cards Launch
Parallel, the NFT card-battler that Decrypt’s GG named as its 2023 game of the year, may soon be launching to a much larger audience amid teases of an open beta launch on the horizon. Currently available in a closed beta test that’s gradually letting more players in, Parallel said on Twitter (aka X) late Wednesday that info on the open beta is coming “soon.”
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🖼 From NFT Punchline to $8 Million Raise, ‘Pixelmon’ Preps for MON Token Launch
Pixelmon began its crypto odyssey as one of the most egregious examples of NFT FOMO, as collectors shelled out $70 million for knockoff Pokémon creatures that were so ugly, even the game’s founder called the artwork a “horrible mistake.” But two years and an ownership change later, between a fundraise and an impending token launch, Pixelmon is gunning to have a big 2024.
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🖼 Starbucks Korea's NFT initiative saves 600,000 disposable cups
Starbucks Korea announced on Thursday that its recent NFT eco-project, designed to promote reusable cup adoption, has led to saving approximately 600,000 disposable cups from use over a two-week period from Jan. 16. With around 600,000 eco-stamps distributed among 260,000 active participants, orders for personal cups surged by 49 percent on the app, while overall usage increased by 32 percent.
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🖼 Starbucks Korea's new NFT service boosts consumers' tumbler use
Starbucks Korea's new non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are boosting its customers' use of tumblers and contributing to the brand's environmental initiative by reducing demand for single-use cups, the coffee franchise said Thursday. The company said it saved around 600,000 single-use cups within two weeks since launching the service on Jan. 16. It saw a 49 percent year-on-year increase in the number of customers using tumblers when placing orders via Siren Order, the company's mobile order system.
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🖼 SBINFT Launches New NFT Marketing Platform to Bring Brands into Web3
SBINFT began as just another marketplace for digital art NFTs, they took a pivotal step in June 2023 with their partnership with the Oasys blockchain. This moved their focus from artwork collecting towards the lucrative world of blockchain gaming NFTs. By rebranding its marketplace and gearing up to onboard top gaming developers, SBINFT positioned itself at the cutting edge of the industry. Clearly, their leadership did their homework and recognized where real value and growth would emerge.
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🖼 Magic Eden debuts ‘Emmy’, a multi-chain wallet for streamlined NFT trading
NFT marketplace Magic Eden has launched its web3 wallet Emmy, featuring multichain compatibility for improved utility. The new wallet broadens the scope of compatibility, functioning seamlessly with Solana, Bitcoin, Polygon, and Ethereum, and is tailored specifically for users active in the NFT marketplace and those engaged in cross-chain collecting.
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🔵 OpenSea Is Down 96% In Sales From ATH
The non-fungible token market downturn experienced in the past two years continues to impact more NFT projects. OpenSea, one of the leading NFT market platforms, is the latest NFT project hinting about selling the project to potential buyers over the poor performance concerns. In an exclusive interview with DL News on Friday, Devin Finzer, the Chief Executive Officer of OpenSea NFT marketplace, revealed that OpenSea has received acquisition intentions and remains open to potential acquisitions.
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🔵 NFT Giant OpenSea Keeps Options Open for Potential Acquisition
The collapse of the non-fungible token (NFT) market last year dealt a blow to OpenSea, raising questions about its once staggering $13.3 billion valuation. Now, the popular NFT marketplace is at the center of acquisition discussions, with CEO and co-founder Devin Finzer expressing an open-minded approach to potential deals, including the possibility of being acquired itself.
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🖼 iSHANG and Earth Exchange Launch Eco-Friendly NFT Staking Initiative
iSHANG, Coinstreet Group’s Web3 branch, in collaboration with Earth Exchange, has launched an innovative NFT Staking Program. This initiative is a response to the 2023 COP28 climate conference in the UAE and represents a significant step towards environmental sustainability. This new token, adhering to UN Climate Standards, establishes a value for each digital carbon unit, ensuring authenticity and preventing fraud.
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