Going meta: Digital cities, attacks on female creators and more

Many projects and companies have launched initiatives for entering the metaverse this week, from Nike acquiring RTFKT to Baidu announcing plans to host a massive virtual conference in the future.

Following the announcement that Facebook’s parent company would be rebranding in a shift towards the Metaverse, many projects have started similar initiatives entering the virtual space, from buying property to testing the limits of what this universe has to offer. Digital cities: Santa Monica and Seoul The downtown Santa Monica District, west of Los Angeles, was one of the first real-world areas to allow users to have access to the metaverse through the FlickPlay app. Branded as a metaverse tool, walking around the district seems to be more of a limited augmented reality experience rather…

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