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The AI pioneer’s new startup, World Labs, is betting that machines can learn to build infinite, on-demand virtual worlds.

Decentraland reports on the evolution of holiday celebrations online, from early e-cards to vibrant virtual worlds.

World models represent the next frontier in AI, enabling machines to create immersive, interactive 3D environments with ...

Virtual characters are real to Gen Z in China. Emotional connections are made, interactions are meaningful and there is very real personal investment in non-physical environments. Even birthdays are ...

As the trend of real-life creeping into virtual worlds continues, will some form of regulation be necessary sooner than later? And how valuable can online games be in modeling real-life human behavior ...

The next generation of web technologies - blockchain, smart contracts, artificial intelligence, collectively known as Web3 - empower people to connect with each other directly without having to become ...

Over the last few years, there has been increasing interest in 3D online games and virtual worlds. In fact, fully 3D social spaces have been around at least since the mid-1980s, and some would argue ...

We’re in a major technological revolution where artificial intelligence, gaming, and virtual reality are allowing us to create and enter totally new spaces and have new experiences there. In these ...

How one professor uses online games as petri dishes of human behavior Edward Castronova has been a wizard, a clergyman, and lately, a monster-slaying blonde, all inside virtual worlds. Scholars may ...

Don Heider is executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. Dignity often describes the idea that every human has inherent worth and ...

It was 2016, and Jordan Belamire was excited to experience QuiVr, a new fantastical virtual reality game, for the first time. With her husband and brother-in-law looking on, she put on a VR headset ...