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2022-08-30 03:01:01 Eminem, Snoop Dogg’s BAYC-inspired VMA performance slammed as money grab

Eminem and Snoop Dogg’s Video Music Awards (VMAs) performance has split opinions, with some fans heavily criticizing the act’s Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) component. The first VMAs occurred on September 14, 1984, and soon became known as an authority in pop culture. A 2019 article from the Washington Post said recent VMA performances “have been notable for not being notable.” It continued by calling out MTV’s waning cultural influence and the distinct lack of edge in recent shows.

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2022-08-29 22:01:22 Belfast business launches Matt Hancock into the Metaverse

Northern Ireland digital business, Whitespace has launch Matt Hancock MP, the former Health Secretary, into the Metaverse to talk about Web 3.0. Powered by Shift, an online collaboration platform created by the Belfast-based firm, and powered through the Metaverse, the event has been set up to address the ongoing debate about the role of the network of 3D virtual worlds in business and society as a whole. Matt Hancock MP, who served as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in 2018, not only led the digital transformation of health and social care with NHS X but launched the NHS app.

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2022-08-29 14:20:06 3D Reconstruction Models Make Metaverse More Possible

One of the researchers from Google based out of London, Ben Mildenhall, in June 2022, released a snippet of their newly developed 3D reconstruction model called RawNeRF. This new tool creates well-lit 3D scenes from 2D images. It has been built on their open-source project called MultiNeRF. Mildenhall teased a video of their latest development using NeRF, combining their mip-NeRF 360, RawNeRF, and Ref-NeRF models. The combination was able to create a 3D space by synthesising and syncing 500 images.

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2022-08-29 09:55:06 Solana-Based Phantom Wallet Launches Burn NFT Feature To Fight Crypto Hacks

The popular Phantom Wallet has introduced the “burn NFT feature” that provides users rewards in SOL tokens for reporting spams in a bid to thwart the rampant frauds in the crypto space. The announcement comes close on the heels of a massive hacking attack. In a recent tweet, Solana’s head of communications, Austin Fedora, said that “60 per cent of the wallets drained” in the attack were Phantom wallets. Phantom’s new feature encourages users to report scams and earn SOL tokens by burning NFTs. Revealing the details in a blog post on Thursday morning, Phantom said that users could find the new feature in the Collectible tab of the Phantom wallet app.

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2022-08-29 03:00:10 Meta's Zuckerberg Not Qualified To Run Metaverse, Says Elon Musk's Ex-Girlfriend Grimes

Elon Musk’s former singer-girlfriend Grimes has questioned the ability of Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s capabilities of making his $10 billion Metaverse dream a success, calling him “wildly under qualified". The Canadian singer, born Claire Boucher, slammed Zuckerberg in a Twitter post, saying that if Zuckerberg oversees the metaverse, “it is dead". Grimes said that “the quality of this image alone speaks to how wildly under qualified he is to build alternate reality, literally every indie game looks better".

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2022-08-28 22:30:28 The metaverse is opening up the world’s holiest sites to virtual pilgrims

Faith-based virtual reality spaces are allowing users to pilgrimage to and explore some of the holiest cities, experience rituals, pray and worship in the metaverse. In 2015, the chief executive of the digital agency, Ehab Fares, created some of Islam's most sacred sites including Mecca in a metaverse they named Experience Makkah. The Holy City, also invented in 2015, allows pilgrims to follow Orthodox clerics as they emerge from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Holy Fire ceremony, let them tuck a prayer note into a crack of the Western Wall, or follow the steps of thousands of worshippers during Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

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2022-08-28 15:26:02 Artozo NFT Marketplace Beta Launch August 2022

Artozo is a new NFT marketplace platform looking to shake up how you buy and sell NFTs. Based on Solana, Artozo is coming out of the gate ready to process your transactions faster and cheaper (and greener) than other platforms. Artozo also offers tools that help raise the value and utility of the NFTs you collect.

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2022-08-28 09:40:02 Huobi-incubated Chinese NFT platform halts international operations

Chinese NFT marketplace iBox is shutting down its operations outside the country. The company, which has been selling NFTs in USDT, did not give any reason for the suspension of its foreign operations. However, plans are on the way to refund users beginning in September. All forms of cryptocurrency trading have been banned in China since September 2021. iBox has enjoyed enormous support from an incubator program launched under the global crypto exchange Huobi. However, Huobi distanced itself from iBox in a statement on Thursday, stating that it relocated from mainland China in May 2021 ending its affiliation with the platform in January 2022.

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2022-08-28 03:30:58 A key leader for Meta’s metaverse software is leaving the company

The vice president of Meta’s Horizon social media virtual reality software, Vivek Sharma, is leaving the company, a spokesperson said Friday. Sharma has been with Facebook parent Meta for the past six years, holding high-ranking positions in marketplace and gaming, and most recently its nascent metaverse-related business unit. As VP of Horizon, Sharma, who is based in the Seattle area, oversaw various VR projects such as the Horizon Worlds social media service, which is akin to the online game Second Life that’s been retrofitted to virtual reality.

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