The corresponding faculty will appear at the Nanjing University of Information Sciences and Technology, reports Modern Express. It will work on the basis of the Faculty of Information Engineering and will become part of the School of Artificial Intelligence.

In the period from April to June, the number of new vacancies with the word “metaverse” in their description decreased by 81%. Such data is shared by the research company Revelio Labs.

As part of the MTV Video Music Awards, a new category has appeared — “best performance in the metaverse”. The organizers decided to add it after they noticed that artists are increasingly holding concerts in virtual worlds.

Dubai wants to enter the top ten largest metaverse economies in the world. According to Bloomberg, the city authorities have launched a strategy under which the number of companies engaged in the metaverse and blockchain should grow fivefold in five years.

The analytical company YouGov, with the support of Globant, decided to find out what Americans think about the metaverse. She interviewed a thousand gamers from the United States aged 18 and older who spend more than three hours a week playing games.

Shanghai continues to be seriously interested in the metaverse. The city authorities announced that they are going to create a fund for ¥ 10 billion ($ 1.49 billion), the money from which will go to the development of the metaverse direction. They hope that thanks to the financing, Shanghai companies will launch at least 100 “benchmark-level products and services” by 2025.

The companies organized the Metaverse Standards Forum. Within the framework of this forum, they will try to form standards for the open metaverse and develop a common terminology. The giants are also going to discuss project prototypes, hackathons, plugins and open source tools.

David Chalmers shared his opinion in a conversation with the PC Gamer portal. He said that if people can recreate a full-fledged simulation of the human brain on a computer, they will get a consciousness similar to ours.

McKinsey & Co., a consulting company, believes that the concept of the metaverse has great potential. She predicts that in eight years the metaverse market will be valued at $5 trillion. However, only 2.5% of this amount will be spent on games.

The administration of St. Petersburg became interested in the metaverse. According to the vice-governor of the city Stanislav Kazarin, she wants to use metaverse technologies for state platforms.

Over the past year, the concept of the metaverse has become one of the most discussed. And for a reason. Citigroup analyst Andre Lin believes that by the end of this decade, the turnover of the metaverse market could reach $8-13 trillion.

Tim Berners-Lee shared his opinion in an interview with Bloomberg. He clarified that the metaverse and virtual reality in general are unlikely to replace the Internet in its modern form, but they will become part of its future.

Naoki Yoshida told about this in an interview with Weekly Bunshun. He admitted that he was not very interested in the idea of a metaverse. Although some players compare the metaverse with his MMORPG, the developer does not see much in common between them.

Analysts from Sensor Tower noticed that over 500 mobile applications have already added the word “metaverse” to their descriptions or names. At the same time, the greatest growth occurred after the rebranding of Facebook.Facebook changed the company name to Meta on October 28, 2021.

Bandai Namco has announced its own metaverse. The Japanese company is going to build a project based on all its IP addresses and hopes that this will help it strengthen its connection with their fans. Bandai Namco has allocated ¥15 billion ($130 million) to realize its ambitions.

Newzoo spoke about five trends that can be observed in the market of metaverses, blockchain games and NFT in 2022. Analysts believe that gamers will gradually adopt these technologies, and major brands will actively buy up virtual land.The Sandbox

Analysts from Newzoo have compiled a portrait of gamers who play metaverse games. Such projects today include Roblox, Fortnite and Minecraft. Their audience is much younger than users of “traditional” titles and actively uses games for socialization.Fortnite

The concepts of the metaverse and Web3 are among the most discussed in 2021. However, Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, does not share the hype. In his opinion, both ideas are simply well promoted.

Two days ago, GSC Game World studio announced that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will have its own metaverse with NFT. However, a barrage of criticism from the gaming community forced the company to abandon this idea.