A new VC fund called FOV Ventures is planning to invest €25m in metaverse-focused startups, and it has been co-founded by a familiar face to the digital music industry.
Tag: metaverse
Posted inNews
HTC’s new ‘Viverse’ includes a music partnership with Beatday
It’s a virtual world accessed through PCs, smartphones, tablets and headsets with a big emphasis on an open ecosystem.
Posted inNews
Meta explores using voice commands to build virtual worlds
Facebook’s parent company Meta has been showing off some of the work going on in its research labs around AI and metaverse technologies.
Posted inNews
300k people are using Meta’s Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues
A new stat from Meta’s chief product officer reveals that, since early December last year, the number of visitors had grown tenfold to 300,000 people.
Posted inNews
Artists part of $60m funding for metaverse startup Everyrealm
There’s gold in them thar metaverse hills. At least, that’s what investors hope, and they’re backing promising startups with significant funding rounds.
Posted inNews
Snapchat and Roblox reveal their next virtual music concerts
It’s all the rage to turn artists into avatars for virtual concerts, but Snapchat is holding an event where the fans’ avatars will also play a key part.
Posted inSandbox
The Sandbox Guide to… Marketing in 2022
Our first Guide of 2022 is designed to help map out your year ahead. We asked 25 thought-leaders in the modern music industry – including Aaron Bogucki, global head of audience development at AWAL, Beth Appleton, chief marketing officer at Jaxsta, Devraj Sanyal, MD & CEO of Universal Music India and South Asia, and Molly […]
To access this post, you must subscribe. If you are already a subscriber, log in here.
Posted inNews
Apple posts record revenues and grows to 785m paid subscribers
Apple made a LOT of money in the final quarter of 2021: $123.9bn, which was a record holiday quarter for the tech giant.
Posted inNews
Music metaverse startup Ristband bags Epic Games ‘MegaGrant’
Ristband is the startup formerly known as Overview Ark. It rebranded last year while working on its plans for a ‘multiplayer music metaverse’ platform.
Posted inNews
Music NFTs roundup: Julian Lennon, Brit Awards, The Wombats…
Some days there’s an explosion of NFT announcements, which we think makes for a useful snapshot of the pace of activity around music NFTs.
Posted inNews
XRSpace is launching a karaoke music metaverse in China
Much of the excitement around music in the metaverse has focused on live performances by big stars. But what about live singing by everyone else?
Posted inNews
Audius launches its own ‘radio’ station in the metaverse
Streaming service Audius is launching what it’s describing as a ‘radio tower’ in a new online game called DeFi Land.