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Elena Rosa is a Los Angeles-based artist who wanted to create a lesbian story world where people of all genders, sexualities and identities could learn about lesbian bar history. She drew from photographs, writings and interviews with former bar patrons and bar owners to bring L-BAR to life. Rosa sat down with Jessica Abo to talk about her interactive online bar and salon, and her advice for anyone trying to create a sacred experience. Jessica Abo: You've spent years working as an actor and artist and say you're really passionate about creating different worlds. What is it about creating environments that lights you up? I love building environments. I like thinking about our architecture and how that frames our identity. I have a particular fascination with Byzantine churches, the way the masses can walk into this dome, this heaven on earth and everyone has one focal point. Straight ahead is the focal. It's one truth, one belief. And if you look to th...

Sacco di Roma 455. Painted in the 19th century. Handout Like Alaric when he’d sacked Rome, Elon Musk, the outsider who’d long wanted in, has now taken over the eternal city of Twitter. Mr. Musk’s first order of business – or the most prominent one, at least – has been to change one of the most curious aspects of the Internet: the little blue check marks next to users names’ that show them as “verified.” (It’s actually a white check mark on a blue badge, but who cares any more these days?) The debate around this issue has been intense and even obsessive at times. But it has danced around the elephant in the room – our own vanity that has caused us to attach value to that checkmark. Intentionally or not, Mr. Musk, whose day job is chief executive of Tesla Inc. TSLA-Q, has launched a grand social experiment. What that reveals is unexpected but straightforward: If purely digital milestones can have such real and tangible power over us, then perhaps the metaverse and Web3 are worth our in...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. One of the most innovative ideas to gain momentum is the concept of the metaverse. For marketers, it's critical to understand what the metaverse is and how it will impact the way brands promote their products and services. Related: Oculus Founder Slams Mark Zuckerberg's 'Terrible' Metaverse What is the metaverse? Think about science fiction movies from the early- to mid-20th century. In those films, they depicted the future of floating cities with millions of flying cars zipping around (for those that can't afford teleportation, of course). Some aspects of these films came true, such as robots depicted in the 1927 film Metropolis or video calls shown in the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey . Of course, much of today's technology looks very different from those early predictions. The same can be said about the metaverse. Although there has been talk over the past decade about ...

Japanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate Sony Group Corp SONY-N said on Tuesday it has the technology to make humanoid robots quickly once it has identified how they could be effectively used. “In terms of technology, several companies in the world including this one have enough technology accumulated to make them swiftly once it becomes clear which usage is promising,” Sony Chief Technology Officer Hiroaki Kitano told Reuters in an interview. “The key is the development of application,” Kitano said. Sony launched a robot dog called Aibo more than two decades ago. It sold about 150,000 units of Aibo from 1999 until 2006 and launched an advanced version in 2018, selling about 20,000 units in the first six months. Humanoid robots have been in development for decades by Honda Motor Co and Hyundai Motor Co and in September, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk showed off a prototype of its humanoid robot Optimus. Musk’s company is floating plans to deploy thousands of the robots in...

Though Web 3.0 is years to maturity, one analysis predicts that by 2026, 25 per cent of the population will spend at least one hour a day in the metaverse. Just_Super Web 3.0 has been heralded as the next evolution of the Internet – one that will make the web more immersive and democratic, thanks to a foundation of blockchain technology. Recent layoffs at Meta and the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX have raised questions about viability and credibility in an emerging space. But many Canadian businesses and investors are still betting big on the transformational potential of Web 3.0 across multiple sectors, including some of the most traditional, such as finance and manufacturing. “I’m starting to see the beginning of killer apps and easy-to-use user interfaces, the integration of the old world with the new world,” says Avivah Litan, a distinguished VP analyst at Gartner Inc., a U.S.-based management consulting company with coverage that includes artificial intelligence (AI) a...

The author who first envisioned the metaverse 30 years ago sat down on Wednesday with a top executive from the company investing billions in building it and agreed there were formidable hurdles to bringing it to the masses. Neal Stephenson, who coined the term in his 1992 novel “Snowcrash”, and Chris Cox, the chief product officer at Meta META-Q, laid out an array of engineering breakthroughs needed to allow millions of people to move seamlessly through immersive virtual worlds displayed on head-mounted devices. “We’re in the very early version, the Xerox PARC era,” said Cox at a World Economic Forum panel, referring to the company that developed the mouse and other fundamental computer technologies 50 years ago. “We’ve got a ways to go,” said Stephenson, who as well as writing science fiction has worked for technology companies including rocket maker Blue Origin. “It’s really just in the last couple of years that everything has come together.” Cox, whose company is spending billions...

Though Web 3.0 is years to maturity, one analysis predicts that by 2026, 25 per cent of the population will spend at least one hour a day in the metaverse. Just_Super Web 3.0 has been heralded as the next evolution of the Internet – one that will make the web more immersive and democratic, thanks to a foundation of blockchain technology. Recent layoffs at Meta and the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX have raised questions about viability and credibility in an emerging space. But many Canadian businesses and investors are still betting big on the transformational potential of Web 3.0 across multiple sectors, including some of the most traditional, such as finance and manufacturing. “I’m starting to see the beginning of killer apps and easy-to-use user interfaces, the integration of the old world with the new world,” says Avivah Litan, a distinguished VP analyst at Gartner Inc., a U.S.-based management consulting company with coverage that includes artificial intelligence (AI) a...