Timothy Shih

Remember when Steve Jobs said Bill Gates “shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas?” Then came Web 2.0 and a new clash of titans who lorded over companies of unprecedented size and power. This was when Mark Zuckerberg went to war against Tim Cook, with Facebook at one point funding a false Cook presidential campaign to undermine Apple’s supposed... See more

Secondly, they’re connected by crypto’s transparent nature—trade secrets are scarce when founders can follow each other’s work “on chain,” watching how many transactions are occurring and which blockchains are stumbling. “These are both open-source ecosystems,” said Yakovenko of his and Buterin’s blockchains. “Because of that, there’s a lot of actu... See more

But the feature that ultimately sold the industrial designers on the project was a concept for an outward-facing screen on the headset. The screen could display video images of the eyes and facial expressions of the person wearing the headset to other people in the room.

As its profile rose, so did the voices of critics, who argued that Solana wasn’t decentralized enough. Part of the problem was that to act as a “node” on the Solana blockchain—a computer that validates transactions—you need additional hardware, costing around $3500.

Those who own these marketplaces and libraries will have huge advantages in the Metaverse era. 

Compute is defined as “The enablement and supply of computing power to support the Metaverse, supporting such diverse and demanding functions as physics calculation, rendering, data reconciliation and synchronization, artificial intelligence, projection, motion capture and translation.”

Today’s generation of children express themselves, often learn, and constantly socialize through virtual worlds they can touch, change, and collaborate in. That’s not going to stop. Rather, the capabilities of these virtual worlds will expand, their ease of use will improve, and their significance will grow. What’s more, the ‘iPad Native’ generatio... See more