This round: Employees in the metaverse and a big retailer goes all out. 5. Ikea hiring metaverse employees. Ikea U.K. and Ireland last month opened new job listings—for positions in the ...

Retailers had to quickly adapt, adopt, and innovate to keep shoppers happy during the pandemic. Now we’re seeing how the metaverse, robots, and fictional influences are changing how we shop.

IKEA already has made deep investments in 3D technologies, Lebaredian said, demonstrating how retailers will make use of the metaverse. Most of their catalog images, for instance, are all ...

The Metaverse is so much more than video games and entertainment. Medicine, travel, ... The new IKEA AR app, launched in June 2022, lets users scan their current rooms, ...

Some say the metaverse is nothing but marketing hype, while others insist it will transform society.I fall into the latter camp, but I’m not talking about cartoon worlds filled with avatars like ...

How has the concept of the metaverse evolved, and where is it going? Let’s find out. How Virtual Reality Got Its Start With Online Gaming. The concept of virtual reality and augmented reality ...

With Epic’s new partnership with Disney, the company is beating the likes of Meta to create a popular metaverse through its battle royale game Fortnite.

Everyone is blabbing about the metaverse. But what does this future digital world look like? WSJ’s Joanna Stern checked into a hotel and strapped on a VR headset for the day. She went to work ...

Today a single Ethereum transaction consumes an average of 60% more energy than 100,000 credit card transactions, while an average Bitcoin transaction consumes 14 times more energy. The average ...

The word “metaverse” is often traced to Neal Stephenson’s 1992 dystopic, cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, and many see a more recent inspiration in the dazzling warren of experiences at the heart ...

The coming metaverse has provoked hype, confusion, and misinformation. For technophiles, the metaverse represents a nirvana: a place to immerse yourself in any digital surrounding, and participate ...