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

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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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