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Coach finally takes its first step into the gaming world

The luxury brand had its listening ears on when creating its first-ever gaming collaboration

Jul 19, 2024

Laura Pitcher

Paolina Russo and her Bae Blades are boldly entering the digital realm

As the Rihanna-approved knitwear label drops three looks for Roblox, creative directors Paolina Russo and Lucile Guilmard discuss the benefits of taking things from IRL to URL

Nov 30, 2023

Hannah Bertolino

Is Britain prepared to face the ‘existential threat’ of AI?

The UK has declared its aim to lead the world in AI, one of five ‘technologies of tomorrow’ – but what is the government actually doing to maximise the benefits and curb the risks of new tech?

Jun 14, 2023

Thom Waite

Cao Fei’s Duotopia is a trippy look into the future of technology

The Chinese artist’s show at Sprüth Magers is a ‘journey into the depths of our connections’

Jun 01, 2023

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Metaverse Fashion Week 2023: log on or touch grass?

As the second edition of Decentraland’s Metaverse Fashion Week goes live, we round up some of the best events, exhibitions, and parties

Mar 28, 2023

Daniel Rodgers

Mark Zuckerberg says NFTs are over

Meta is cutting collectible art from Facebook and Instagram – plus another 10,000 jobs – as part of Zuck’s ‘Year of Efficiency’

Mar 14, 2023

Thom Waite

Can the metaverse reshape the future of fashion in 2023?

In 2022 Decentraland hosted the first Metaverse Fashion Week and Mark Zuckerberg brought Balenciaga to the masses, yet fashion is still blinkered to the potential of a technological revolution in 2023

Jan 06, 2023

Thom Waite

Snow Crash: the 30-year-old novel that predicted today’s twisted Metaverse

Prophetic sci-fi author Neal Stephenson tells Dazed what his seminal story got right and wrong about today’s terminally online world

Dec 09, 2022

Thom Waite

ikon-1 wears Romain Gaulthier, Scarlett Yang, Weiran

Nick Knight is building a ‘new civilisation’ in the metaverse

The photographer’s latest project, Ikon-1, casts @uglyworldwide as the deity of his brave new world – here, they discuss the importance of beauty, and why shaping the metaverse can’t be left to the likes of Mark Zuckerberg

Nov 17, 2022

Thom Waite

Beauty

Idoru is the app making avatars more realistic and representative than ever

A new app that allows users create realistic, lifelike avatars of themselves is providing a level of representation rarely seen in the gaming and digital world

Beauty

Nov 08, 2022

Tomi Otekunrin

What happens when drag and the metaverse collide?

Meta’s Queens of the Metaverse event saw LGBTQ+ digital designers collaborate with some of the UK’s top drag acts to imagine a future of the art

Oct 28, 2022

Zoe Whitfield

The author who coined ‘metaverse’ is building his own online world

Snow Crash writer Neal Stephenson has teamed up with a crypto bro to create an open metaverse and fight back against Big Tech

Sep 23, 2022

LuYang, DOKU, Hungry Ghost. LuYang’s digital Reinc

Lu Yang’s digital reincarnations explore the ghost in the machine

LuYang NetiNeti is the Shanghai-based artist‘s first solo UK exhibition

Sep 22, 2022

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Can digital spaces help heal sexual trauma?

Offering a safe and controlled environment, people with sexual trauma are increasingly turning to digital-only sex spaces to experience, experiment and heal