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New spray-on smart skin can learn and decipher hand movements using AI

A newly developed electronic skin allows users to type without a keyboard and let people use sign language in the metaverse.

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The tech, mindset and headsets making the metaverse ‘real'

Is the metaverse just a gimmick? Here’s how companies are gearing up for the next stage of the Internet.

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Crying on TikTok: Meet the unseen influencer

Ever wondered who's making all the funny filters you use on TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat? Ollie Tyler is one of the tech geniuses making an overlooked part of today's internet culture.

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How wearable technology could take users to new worlds

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There’s more to wearable tech than counting steps with smartwatches and fitness trackers. Introducing the new suits and boots taking users to new worlds

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Hybrid tourism: Where to immerse yourself in the new tech travel trend

From France to Egypt, explore the countries leading the way in virtually enhanced travel.

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Game over: The VR headset designed to kill you if you die in a game

“If you die in the game, you die in real life,” Oculus creator Palmer Luckey said of his new VR headset packed with explosives.

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Why metaverse real estate is selling for millions

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Metaverse real estate values are skyrocketing, with one plot selling for a record €2.49 million. Decentraland's Sam Hamilton explains why

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The real-life Balkan micronation being built first in the metaverse

The independent country, which occupies a slither of unclaimed land wedged between Serbia and Croatia, will take shape in virtual reality.

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Why is crime fighting agency Interpol creating its own metaverse?

“In order for police to understand the metaverse, we need to experience it” said Interpol’s executive director of technology.

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Could the Metaverse become a €30 trillion El Dorado?

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For most of us, the metaverse remains a mystery. But many investors believe that virtual worlds where humans and automated entities interact could be a land of plenty.

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Venice Immersive explores the Metaverse as a new Artistic Medium

Venice film festivalgoers now have the chance to escape further via media with the new Venice Immersive expanded reality Island

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Bring your digital twin into the metaverse thanks to AI face capture

The start-up sees bright prospects for the technology in tomorrow’s metaverse where people need to represent themselves.

The Exchange

New virtual economy: what does the rise of The Metaverse mean?

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Huge amounts of money are being poured into the metaverse, an alternative world where you can work, play and meet people without ever leaving your home. The Exchange looks at whether the rise of this vast virtual space will redefine the way we consume and communicate forever?

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The metaverse is transporting pilgrims to the world’s holiest sites

Worshippers around the world can now visit some of the holiest cities from their home thanks to immersive experiences.

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A trip to Niagara Falls for €2? The metaverse could make it happen

Will tourists flock to VR City, a new virtual destination with famous world landmarks - or will they save up to visit the real thing in person?

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Conjoined twins aged 3 separated with help of virtual reality

Twins Bernado and Arthur Lima, 3, can now look at each other in the face for the first time after a "man-on-Mars" surgery using virtual reality.

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Good News: Chemotherapy drugs delivered by drone

Your weekly dose of #GoodNews is fresh out of the oven with VR replicating the neurological effects of exercise, chemo drugs that descend from the skies, and more.

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How Meta’s metaverse vision will change the future of communication

Creativity is all about connection and increasingly brands will communicate via evolving technologies as the metaverse takes shape, says Meta’s Angie Gifford.

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'Hologram patients' help train UK medical students in world first

Learners put on mixed reality headsets and are immersed in a lifelike training scenario, overlaid onto their physical environment.

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This Egyptian teen is building a metaverse using his mum’s old clothes

Omar Wael’s fascination with tech began aged just five, having built his first robot aged nine. Now he has his mind set on creating a metaverse.