Nifty News: Metaverse bank robberies, Trump NFT biz prefers crypto over cash, and more

Stick em' up! Bank robbery drills successful the Metaverse

The Bank of America is mixing a virtual world metaverse and artificial quality to bid caller employees connected everything from handling aggravated customers to slope robberies.

Bloomberg reported July 13 that the bank’s 2,000 caller hires acquisition a week-long grooming authorities that includes slipping connected a VR headset to signifier responding to a assortment of simulated situations.

The VR modules see mundane situations similar helping an upset lawsuit oregon quizzing 1 which asks for a ample swath of cash, and utmost ones, similar a full-blown slope robbery.

The newcomers tin besides conscionable chill retired successful VR by riding a unicorn oregon sitting connected an island.

An upset virtual lawsuit the caller BoA unit person to calm. Source: Bloomberg

AI is besides deployed successful the training, the caller hires signifier conversing with a bot acting arsenic a lawsuit and are helped done the speech by yet different AI bot.

Currently, implicit 200,000 planetary BoA unit person been privy to the virtual training. The bank’s telephone centers besides person an AI coaching bot to assistance successful drilling conversations with clients. Managers tin besides handball further unit grooming to the bots.

The innovation and plan enforcement of the BoA’s Academy, Mike Wynn, told Bloomberg that the grooming is advantageous arsenic these scenarios are “hard to thatch traditionally.”

“VR creates anxiety, it gets your bosom complaint up. It makes you nervous,” helium added.

Use of its metaverse is besides being mulled for usage astatine occupation fairs successful a bid to entice a younger assemblage for an enthralling vocation successful banking by having them virtually unrecorded retired the hum-drum of a slope associate.

Donald Trump’s NFT concern opts to clasp funds on-chain

Former United States president Donald Trump’s nonfungible token (NFT) licensing concern is seemingly choosing to clasp its funds connected Ethereum, with precocious updated disclosures showing next-to-nothing successful its slope account.

The update disclosures filed by Trump with the Office of Government Ethics made nationalist connected July 13 provided much details connected his finances and concern dealings — a ineligible request arsenic helium again makes a bid for the presidency.

CIC Digital, the steadfast that gains the gross from licensing fees for the NFT collections that usage Trump’s likeness, has a U.S. slope relationship with a equilibrium of little than $1,000.

Meanwhile, the company’s Ethereum wallet holds anyplace betwixt $250,000 and $500,000.

In a erstwhile April disclosure, Trump said helium earned anyplace betwixt $500,000 to $1 cardinal from his NFT licensing deals.

Trump’s renewed bid for president legally requires him to record a “Personal Financial Disclosure” which tin beryllium wide successful nature, but it's unclear wherefore helium updated his fiscal disclosures to beryllium much specific.

Two rounds of NFT collections person been released bearing Trump’s representation the past of which, released successful April, sold retired connected their archetypal day.

Siemens $560K field to bebuilt successful the metaverse first

German tech conglomerate Siemens has committed to gathering a $560,000 (500 cardinal euros) caller tech field successful adjacent Nuremberg, Germany, but volition look archetypal digitally successful the metaverse.

On July 13 Siemens said it’s spending $1.1 cardinal (1 cardinal euros) concern to marque a “blueprint for the concern metaverse” successful the country. Half that magnitude is going to the field with the extremity of making it a hub for what it calls the industrial metaverse — a integer recreation of locations utilized for troubleshooting and analytics.

The field volition beryllium built conscionable northbound of Nuremberg and earlier operation begins the buildings volition beryllium planned retired and simulated successful the metaverse, past copied into the existent world, according to Siemens.

Today was a large time for @Siemens and for my hometown. We are investing €1 cardinal successful Germany, with €500 cardinal to laic the instauration for the concern metaverse successful Erlangen. Siemens is creating a caller exertion field to intensify probe and improvement and grow our… pic.twitter.com/ZEUeXmoAou

The integer replica volition let for the layout to beryllium optimized and adjusted earlier immoderate crushed is broken. The field volition beryllium alongside its existing mill that makes physics components.

The backing is portion of the firm's $2.2 cardinal (2 cardinal euro) concern program announced past period which aims to physique the institution caller acquisition centres and determination hubs.

Puma sneaker NFTs fto you perceive to tracks, portion connected track

Sports footwear institution Puma, NFT institution Legitimate and rapper Jay-Z’s amusement bureau Roc Nation person teamed up for a sneaker postulation integrated with NFTs.

The postulation dubbed "The Evolution of the Mixtape" postulation was released July 14 and features 3 sneaker models called “Disc,” “Cassette Tape” and “Playlist.”

The lingua of the near footwear features an NFC spot that tin beryllium tapped with a telephone to assistance entree to an exclusive portal featuring unreleased euphony from Roc Nation artists, video contented and a documentary.

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The shoes are priced astatine $130 a brace and Legitimate touts their NFC tags tin beryllium linked with an NFT that authenticates the existent product.

Such “phygital” streetwear has proven popular, successful June French luxury marque Dior shipped a new enactment of sneakers with 1 brace that came with a “digital twin” — an NFT.

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NFT steadfast Dapper Labs had its third circular of layoffs successful 9 months connected July 13 with 51 full-time unit and contractors fto go, which was astir 12% of the company’s staff. In November past twelvemonth and February 2023 it reduced headcount by 22% and 20% respectively.

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