Bloomberg has interviewed Playstation creator Ken Kutaragi and published a piece with a metaverse "snub" claim in the title and that's being picked up on and reported by others as dismissive of the whole idea.
But a read of the interview paints a different picture.
"The car is over" is a bold claim recently made at the opening of what their owners describe as the first ever flying car store.
We would still caution you to look out for cars when crossing the road and must point out that this store doesn't actually have any flying cars to sell.
Submitted by ionscifi on November 14, 2021 - 09:13
This week saw an interesting confluence of gaming, film and technology.
Unity Technologies, developers of the Unity game engine, announced a deal to acquire film-maker Peter Jackson's New Zealand based visual effects company, Weta Digital.
With the world coming fresh out of a major pandemic during which many people worked from home for the first time and in jobs where that would normally not be an option, Cisco is launching new holo-meeting technology.
It's no holodeck but looks like an interesting step in that direction.
While not immediately spacey, obviously out-of-the-ground agricultural technology has enormous applications for travelling and or living in space. Or living on bodies without atmospheres like the moon or Mars.
Bloomberg reports that the first vertical farming startup is about to be listed on the US NASDAQ. Boring.
But there are some fascinating comparison statistics to traditional farming and the technological advances being made in this field.
