2025 Crypto Market Year in Review: Highs, Lows, and Shattered Records
2025 has gone down in cryptocurrency history as the year the “wild west” era ended and “institutional integration” peaked. Making…
Category: Metaverse
AI Diaries: This Week in the World of AI (December 23, 2025)
What happened in the world of artificial intelligence this week? What new products were introduced? In our “AI Diaries” series,…
NETFLIX Acquires Ready Player Me—What Does This Mean for Metaverse Platforms Using Ready Player Me Avatars? – Ryan Schultz
I somehow missed a major piece of news that dropped last Friday, which will definitely impact a lot of existing…
Google Terminates YouTube Channels Creating Fake AI Movie Trailers
Google has taken a major step against digital misinformation by shutting down two prominent YouTube channels that amassed over 1…
Welcome to the Era of the Invisible Computer
Look at your hand right now. Chances are, you are holding—or are within arm’s reach of—a black rectangle of glass.…
AI API Cost Calculator 2026: Compare GPT-4, Claude & Gemini
Select AI Model GPT-4oGPT-4o Mini (Best Value)o1-previewGPT-4 TurboClaude 3.5 SonnetClaude 3 OpusClaude 3 HaikuGemini 1.5 ProGemini 1.5 FlashDeepSeek V3Llama 3.1…
Is Solar Powered Crypto Mining Profitable?
Cryptocurrency mining, particularly Bitcoin mining, has a notorious reputation for massive energy consumption. As electricity prices soar globally and environmental…
The IMMERSIVE X Metaverse Conference, November 11-13, 2025 – Ryan Schultz
I’m laid up with severe neck and shoulder pain, off sick from work today again, lying on the sofa and…
UPDATED! A Report from the IMMERSIVE X Conference, Nov. 11th, 2025 – Ryan Schultz
If anything, I urge everyone in our industry to build our digital spaces the way we design cities: with flow,…
A Report from the IMMERSIVE X Conference, Nov. 12th and 13th, 2025 – Ryan Schultz
WARNING: This blogpost is a first draft, and in some places is lacking in details, for which I apologize in…