Meta is bringing luxury fashion into the metaverse with the announcement of a digital fashion marketplace dedicated to its virtual avatars. Outfits of three high fashion brands – Balenciaga, Prada, and Thom Browne – could be worn across Meta-owned platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram‘s director of fashion partnerships…
Gulf News has announced that it will be hosting Web3 DeCode, a two-day exhibition at the Grand Hyatt in Dubai, on June 25 and 26. To raise awareness of Web3 technology, its ascension in emerging markets like the UAE plus its impact on innovation, and life, as we know it, Gulf News is hosting Web3…
Actively pushing reforms and policies in the field of digital technologies, the UAE has conducted Metacon, the two-day event held at The Arena, Dubai World Trade Centre. The event aimed to help the building of a fast-growing Web3 community in the UAE, exhibiting the abundant opportunities of the metaverse on May 27-28. The UAE is…
Gaming companies are poised to be on the metaverse’s cutting edge, former Nintendo executive Reggie Fils-Aimé predicts. In the metaverse and gaming content is still king, he said. In the last year, the 3D virtual world known as the metaverse has come to the forefront of tech and business discourse. Facebook, for instance, has changed…
As the metaverse disrupts the existing technological landscape, Rob Gryn, CEO of Dubai-based startup Everdome, told Gulf Business how Everdome and Metahero are on a journey to create something the world has not seen yet. Mark Zuckerberg once said, “Today, I think we look at the internet. But in the future, you are going to…
Museum of the Future, a futuristic Emirati museum in Dubai, has teamed up with leading crypto exchange Binance to cultivate and present a collection of NFTs. Celebrating International Museum Day, the museum, deemed the world’s most beautiful and futuristic building, is introducing a brand new concept that talks about the possibilities of the future. Launched…