Metaverse: April headlines

- What is Apple's Approach for the Metaverse? Apple is yet to confirm the rumours of it launching a long-rumoured VR or virtual reality glass at its annual Worlwide Developers Conference in June (source)
- Mark Zuckerberg denied the ‘narrative’ that he’s ditching the metaverse and he unveiled a new goal: bringing ‘A.I. agents’ to ‘billions of people’, previously Zuckerberg fired off a series of figures and metrics showing progress in the metaverse: More than one million Meta avatars have been created; Half of the people who use the company's Quest VR headset every day spend more than one hour inside its virtual realm (source)
- Shiba Inu's Metaverse Will Partially Open by End of 2022 - the metaverse is unlikely to be fully completed on release as it will be an “ongoing project,” developers said (source)
- UK’s New Technology Department to Tackle Country’s Metaverse, Web3 Strategy: the department will explore economic growth, investment and business opportunities in these areas, as well as implications on regulation (source)
- AI Will 'Accelerate' the Metaverse, Empower Creators: The Sandbox Co-Founder: “What used to take days before, from ideation and conception, can now take just a matter of seconds,” Borget told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” on Thursday. AI will “accelerate and empower even more creators,” he said. (source)

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