Ready Player One

FOLEY BEZEK BEHLE & CURTIS SETTLES "BACK TO THE FUTURE" DELOREAN TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT CASE WITH NBCUNIVERSAL

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Friday, March 29, 2024

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DeLorean Motor Company filed the lawsuit against NBCUniversal Media, LLC.

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DeLorean Motor Company filed the lawsuit against NBCUniversal Media, LLC.
in October of 2022, alleging various claims, including trademark and trade dress infringement.
CEO of DeLorean Motor Company, Stephen Wynne shares, "For decades, we have gone to great lengths to protect the DeLorean brand.
The entire team at Foley Bezek Behle & Curtis contributed, including attorneys Kevin Gamarnik, Jordan Liebman and Luis Saenz.

ANNOUNCING "OPEN" AN IMMERSIVE MULTI-GENRE METAVERSE, BATTLE ROYALE EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPMENT FOR PC AND CURRENT GEN PLATFORMS

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Monday, March 11, 2024

LOS ANGELES and STOCKHOLM, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- From recently announced publisher Readyverse Studios in partnership with developer Walker Labs, comes OPEN, the first AAA quality metaverse experience interoperable with AAA IP that leverages web3 technology.

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The third-person battle royale experience OPEN will be the hero experience in The Readyverse.
The Readyverse is a next-gen immersive and interoperable platform for discovering metaverse games and experiences.
A first glimpse of OPEN was debuted in a trailer today by Readyverse Studios Co-Founders at SXSW; watch here .
Enter OPEN's immersive multiverse filled with nostalgia-infused biomes featuring characters and cultural legends across iconic franchises.

FUTUREVERSE AND READY PLAYER ONE CREATOR AND PRODUCER TEAM UP TO LAUNCH "READYVERSE STUDIOS" BRINGING LEADING IP AND BRANDS TO THE METAVERSE

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Thursday, January 4, 2024

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Futureverse, a leading AI and metaverse technology and content company, backed by world-class investors, announces today its biggest news to date: the formation of Readyverse Studios, a first-of-its-kind studio co-founded by Futureverse Co-Founders Shara Senderoff and Aaron McDonald, as well as Ernest Cline, the best-selling novelist and renowned creator of the groundbreaking franchise Ready Player One and Dan Farah, Ready Player One film producer.

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In 2024, Readyverse Studios will launch "The Readyverse," a dynamic interactive platform of interconnected digital experiences.
Discovery to exclusively bring the Ready Player One franchise to the metaverse across web3.
In addition, Readyverse Studios maintains exclusive web3 rights to all future IPs from the legendary futurist, Ernest Cline.
No IP has shaped the global culture and conversation around the metaverse more than Ready Player One.

Ready Player Me's New Monetization Tools Help Developers Grow Revenue Through In-App Purchases

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Friday, June 16, 2023

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NEW YORK, June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ready Player Me, the world's leading avatar platform, today released alpha access to a new suite of monetization tools and premium avatar collections. These innovations let app creators tap into the $100+ billion dollar digital goods economy by selling avatar skins, clothing, and items directly in their apps. Alpha partners utilizing the tools include virtual world apps like Hiber and Spatial, and social networking and streaming apps like Wink and Omlet Arcade; other Ready Player Me developers can apply for beta access to the tools here.

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Alpha partners utilizing the tools include virtual world apps like Hiber and Spatial, and social networking and streaming apps like Wink and Omlet Arcade; other Ready Player Me developers can apply for beta access to the tools here .
"Partnering with Ready Player Me enables us to move our monetization strategy forward by delivering embeddable 3D commerce experiences to brands, artists and creators," said Michael Yngfors, Co-Founder & CEO of Hiber.
Additionally published assets will soon be available for sale throughout the entire Ready Player Me Network, giving developers the ability to sell cross-game.
Developers who have not yet signed up with Ready Player Me can do so at readyplayer.me/developers .

READY PLAYER ME AND KRIKEY AI LAUNCH AI ANIMATED AVATARS

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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Krikey.ai, an AI tools company, announced an AI Animation partnership with Ready Player Me today. The AI Animation tool for Ready Player Me Avatars is available at www.krikey.ai/readyplayerme - Users can sign in and then visit this link to create and AI Animate their Ready Player Me Avatar.

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The AI Animation tool for Ready Player Me Avatars is available at www.krikey.ai/readyplayerme - Users can sign in and then visit this link to create and AI Animate their Ready Player Me Avatar.
Now anyone can animate a 3D character with Krikey AI and Ready Player Me."
Whether animating a Ready Player Me Avatar for a game, film or just for fun - users can now generate 3D Avatar animations in minutes using Krikey AI.
Ready Player Me created interoperable Avatars for the metaverse and now, with Krikey AI, you can bring these characters to life with custom AI Animations.

Metaphysic Announces Strategic Partnership with Creative Artists Agency; Named Generative AI Provider for Miramax's "Here"

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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

LONDON, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Metaphysic announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to develop generative AI tools and services for global talent. Through this partnership, Metaphysic and CAA will work together to unlock creative possibilities for artists using AI across film, television, and entertainment.

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Through this partnership, Metaphysic and CAA will work together to unlock creative possibilities for artists using AI across film, television, and entertainment.
Metaphysic made history in 2022 on "America's Got Talent," introducing hyperreal generative AI content to a national television audience.
Testament to its technical and creative excellence, Metaphysic has been named the sole AI provider for the highly-anticipated major motion picture "Here," produced by Miramax and directed by Robert Zemeckis.
Building on its industry-leading generative AI technology for Hollywood, Metaphysic is announcing its new product, "Metaphysic Live."

First Metaverse Plugin for WordPress Developers Deploys Multiuser Immersive Worlds into Websites and Blogs in Minutes

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Croquet Corporation, provider of Croquet OS, the Operating System for the Open Metaverse, announced today the first WordPress Plugin that allows developers to deploy 3D immersive, multiuser Metaverse worlds in any WordPress website or blog. Croquet Metaverse Web Showcase is free, no-code, easy to use and gives anyone using WordPress a quick and easy way to engage customers and visitors in a fully immersive, multiuser, social 3D world in less than five minutes. Web Showcase launched in December 2022 and quickly rose to the #1 spot on Product Hunt, the leading technology review forum.

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New Croquet Plugin Deploys Multiuser, Social, 3D Metaverse Worlds in Any WordPress Site with Collaborative Browsing and Spatial Audio Conversations among Site Visitors
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Croquet Corporation , provider of Croquet OS, the Operating System for the Open Metaverse, announced today the first WordPress Plugin that allows developers to deploy 3D immersive, multiuser Metaverse worlds in any WordPress website or blog.
Croquet Metaverse Web Showcase is free, no-code, easy to use and gives anyone using WordPress a quick and easy way to engage customers and visitors in a fully immersive, multiuser, social 3D world in less than five minutes.
"The web is the Metaverse and it will rapidly become multiuser and immersive," said David A. Smith, founder and CTO of Croquet.
Microverse developers can use WordPress Plugins to distribute customized worlds, experiences, games and other activations they create with World Builder to hundreds of millions of websites and blogs.

Korea's leading ICT company, Lotte Data Communication, unveils a more advanced 'hyper-realistic' metaverse platform

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Thursday, January 5, 2023

SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Korea's leading ICT company, Lotte Data Communications (LDCC), will participate in the coming CES 2023 held in Las Vegas, USA.

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SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Korea's leading ICT company, Lotte Data Communications (LDCC), will participate in the coming CES 2023 held in Las Vegas, USA.
Products purchased within the metaverse can be used in the virtual world and also be delivered in the real world.
To enable such a business model, LDCC created an immersive and realistic metaverse platform based on hyper-realistic content.
Lotte Metaverse aims to become a user-oriented, UGC (User-Generated Contents) based platform in the future.

Digital Domain Brings Water, Fire and New MCU Characters to the Climactic Battle in ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’

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Monday, December 5, 2022

“But it was also an ambitious film that introduced several major characters to the MCU, along with an army of amphibious superpowered warriors.

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“But it was also an ambitious film that introduced several major characters to the MCU, along with an army of amphibious superpowered warriors.
With a limited number of stunt people available, Digital Domain also created full armies of Wakandans and Talokanil.
The inclusion of grenades meant to function under water meant Digital Domain had to rethink, and even re-examine the physics of an explosion.
Digital Domain has successfully become the first independent visual effects studio to enter Greater China.

From Thanos to She-Hulk: How Digital Domain Brought the MCU’s Latest Superhero (and Attorney) to Life

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Monday, November 7, 2022

The rest including a new way to create CG clothing and muscles would need to be invented along the way.

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The rest including a new way to create CG clothing and muscles would need to be invented along the way.
In total, Digital Domain contributed nearly 1,000 VFX shots to She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, including 660 shots of She-Hulk alone.
Digital Domain was then able to analyze that footage using its proprietary machine learning powered tool, Masquerade 2.0, a facial capture system.
That also included the way the CG model changed based on the footwear, which led to another first for Digital Domain.