Manchester City FC to build a first metaverse football stadium
The stadium will be built in partnership with Sony. The primary mission is to involve as many club fans as possible — especially those who can’t attend games. So that fans can now meet players in the metaverse, interact with each other and buy products that are not available in real life.
VR specialists have already made the first sketches. The club’s stadium, Etihad, will be the main point of attraction with Man City’s “reecreated” games. Sony’s technologies, including Hawk-Eye for tracking the ball’s trajectory, will be used.
Spotify is looking for a metaverse engineer
There are a lot of major companies hiring tech-savvy employees within NFT, blockchain, and the metaverse sphere. For example, Twitter has started to form a Twitter Crypto team, which will deal with decentralized technologies, blockchain, and Web3.
But now, Spotify is looking for a backend engineer proficient in the metaverse, NFT, and blockchain technology. The company has turned to the industry-leading platform LinkedIn for the search.
The candidate will be responsible for leveraging emerging technologies, such as Web3, for identifying possible growth opportunities, as well as building and experimenting on new products.
Crypto exchange FTX is launching a new gaming unit
Crypto exchange FTX runs a new team focused on introducing cryptocurrency and NFT in the game world. Thus, the exchange aims to become a “crypto as a service” platform for game developers allowing them to launch tokens and provide support for in-game NFTs.
“We’re launching FTX Gaming because we see gaming as an exciting cryptocurrency option,” said an FTX spokesperson. It isn’t the first project related to the blockchain theme launched by FTX: the crypto exchange participated in the recent launch of the NFT marketplace for the Coachella festival.
Animoca Brands with Play Magnus to bring chess into the metaverse
Thanks to a new partnership between Animoca Brands and Play Magnus Group, the chess game is entering the metaverse. The industry giant will leverage its spin-off companies Lympo and The Sandbox to integrate the popular board game into the metaverse.
Lympo will take a key role in PMG’s immersion into the metaverse: it plans to develop a unique NFT collection to support the upcoming Champions Chess Tour tournament. The company will also create specially designed animated NFT collections representing world-class chess players.
NFT vending machine installed in New York City
Solana-based Neon marketplace has started to bring digital collectibles to the masses — the marketplace installed an NFT vending machine in New York City, allowing people to buy NFTs in person with a credit card but without the need for crypto.
Neon identified some challenges in adapting new users to NFT. So they “repackaged” the token buying process to incorporate a more familiar transaction style. Thus, people now can buy NFT-based goods in a traditional style via the vending machine.
Users can make purchases through a number of fiat-based payment methods, including Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, and Samsung Pay.
