News & Reviews:   metaverse

HTC was once a solid contender in the smartphone industry but has fallen out of the race due to the fierce competition among the players. That said, HTC is not entirely dead yet as they still develop other kinds of technologies around the world.

In the last few years, the mobile gaming market has grown increasingly bigger. But if how big the industry is hasn't sunk in yet, you just need to look at the latest market report. Newzoo recently published a new paper with some statistics for 2021.

Short videos have become a thing, but maybe too short isn't enough for a lot of people. There's a demand for slightly longer short videos, with TikTok allowing for uploads of up to 3 minutes last year. Instagram is also planning to expand the length of Instagram Reels soon.

This CES 2022 MSI announced their new Gamerverse laptop line-ups designed for the Metaverse. Powered by the latest 12th Gen Intel Core processors and up to NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080 Ti graphics, MSI also announced several key technologies being used in their Gamerverse devices which includes their Phase-Change Liquid Metal Pad for up to 10% better performance and cooling and various laptops.

If you recall, Facebook changed its company name to Meta at the end of October 2021. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the rebrand is to symbolise the 'metaverse'. Well, that metaverse is making its debut starting with North America.

After Facebook changed its name to Meta to tell us how much the company cares about Metaverse, Microsoft soon jumped on the bandwagon by announcing Mesh as its own take on the technology concept. For the latter, it focuses on building an interactive platform for virtual experiences inside Microsoft Teams.

Today, the Facebook Company (formerly) will be now known as Meta. This was officially announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Connect 2021 and no, the Facebook social media platform won't change its name. From Facebook's newsroom, the Meta name change is a new direction that brings the company's apps and technologies under one new brand. 

During Facebook's Q3 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed some of the upcoming plans for the social media platforms. Out of them, one got our attention by mentioning that the company will shift their focus to young adults with "significant changes" applied to Facebook and Instagram.