Following the news that toy firm Lego and Epic Games are teaming up to build a metaverse for children, Sony and Lego owner KIRKBi have ploughed $1 billion each into the games publisher.
Scott manages to limp in for an episode with just Iain and, of course, Pierre this week. They start by devoting a whole segment to 5G New Radio, questioning whether it’s all it’s cracked up to be. They move on to the often overlooked matter of backhaul and what it means for one operator to be dependent on another for that sort of thing, before concluding with a look at plans to develop a metaverse for kids.
Toy brick firm Lego and games publisher Epic Games have announced that together they intend to build some sort of metaverse aimed at children.
Spanish MNO Telefonica has created a collection of NFT’s based on drawings by an artist called Ferran Adrià – a move which is says demonstrates its commitment to Web3 and metaverse.
Content delivery networks are for more than just content, we’re being led to believe.
New research from Zen Internet claims 18% of 16-24 year olds are already making friends in the metaverse, while 46% are considering doing so in the future.
We’re back in the studio and reunited with Iain this week. Seeing as they weren’t able to pod together at the show, the lads start with a recap of Mobile World Congress. They move on to talk about the awkward situation Ericsson has found itself in over its historical activities in Iraq before concluding with a look at the implications for the telecoms industry in the Ukraine conflict.
We caught up with Azfar Aslam, CTO Europe at Nokia at MWC who explained Nokia’s vision of the future, including human augmentation and new technologies that won’t be based on smartphones.
US Internet giant Meta/Facebook has launched a barrage of information on AI projects it is working on, including translation systems, virtual assistants and metaverse voice command tools.
Spanish MNO Telefonica is planning to go big on the very much in-vogue metaverse concept at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona next week.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has informed his employees they are now called Metamates, that it’s time for a new cultural operating system at Meta, and more miscellaneous corporate dribble.
Network connectivity provider Zen Internet felt compelled to ask the UK what it thought about metaverse dating ethics, with nearly half equating virtual flings to real life cheating.
US mobile chip giant Qualcomm reckons Europeans need a big dose of extended reality so it’s opening six new labs across the continent.
Despite a 20% Q4 revenue hike, stock in tech giant Meta/Facebook dropped 20% amid negative outlook for the next quarter.
Japanese tech giant and owner of PlayStation, Sony, has bid $3.6 billion for games developer Bungie, which appears to nod towards future metaverse plays.
Meta, the artist formally known as Facebook, is showing off its new AI Research SuperCluster which it claims will be the fastest AI supercomputer on the planet.
We’re delighted to welcome our first guest of the year in John Baker of Mavenir. His company is a major player in the OpenRAN scene so we spend the majority of the pod chatting about that, during which Scott and Iain challenge John to justify the hype around it. They eventually move on to look at the silliness going on in the US to do with the C-band spectrum and conclude with the latest on the metaverse, which threatens to take over our lives.
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