Highlights of the week on Newsverso: medicine and metaverse, K-pop, real digital, Justin Bieber and Trump

In a few lines, everything that was highlighted during the week on Newsverso.


Medicine and metaverse: Newsverso interviews the first doctor in Brazil to carry out a consultation in an augmented reality environment

first query in the metaverse

Doctor Heron Werner, obstetrician and gynecologist, in an interview with Newsverse, said he was always curious. For this reason, Werner stands out in academia with research that impresses with the boldness of its technological proposals for medicine. A pioneer in the use of 3D modeling, in 2011, for case analysis, and responsible for the first guided consultation in an immersive virtual environment in Brazil, the doctor believes that technology can be a strong ally of science. In the conversation, he narrates how a pregnant couple visited his office in the metaverse. Check it out on video!

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“The future of K-pop is in the metaverse”, says the genre’s top hat

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The K-pop phenomenon captures fans inside and outside of South Korea, the genre's country of origin. However, despite its immense popularity in the four corners of the world, one of the main leaders of the movement, Soo-Man-Lee, founder of SM Entertainment, which manages Korean music groups, was on a TV show and said that the metaverse is the future of K-pop.

Digital real could come out in 2024, announces president of the Central Bank

Central Bank should launch digital real in 2024

Apparently, the Brazilian Central Bank does not want to be left behind in the virtual race in the coming years. The entity's president, Roberto Campos Neto, stated this Tuesday (13) that he is interested in creating a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The speech took place during an event on digital security promoted by Poder360.

Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg and Paris Hilton are involved in a lawsuit against an NFT company; understand the case

Justin Bieber and Bored Ape Yacht Club (images: AFP)

Remember the monkey NFT craze and the wave of super celebrities jumping on board the non-fungible token market? So, celebrities like Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, Madonna, Kevin Hart and some others are involved in a lawsuit after investors raised a class action lawsuit accusing them of deceptively promoting Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs.

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Trump announces collectible NFTs of himself

Donald Trump
Donald Trump

Always showing modesty, Donald Trump made a “big announcement” this Thursday (15), presenting a series of digital cards with his image, priced at US$99 each. In a message on his own network, Truth Social, the former president of the United States announced Donald Trump's collection of NFTs (non-fungible tokens, in Portuguese), a model well known to baseball fans, according to him, but “very more exciting".


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