Nifty News: Hyundai partners with Meta Kongz, Activision surveys on NFTs, and more

South Korean automobile shaper Hyundai announced today, April 18th, that it has partnered with the Meta Kongz NFT task to make a constricted postulation of 30 NFTs launching sometime successful May 2022.

Hyundai besides created a caller Twitter grip @Hyundai_NFT for its NFT-related communications and posted a video showing an animated Meta Kong riding done abstraction successful a 1975 Hyundai PONY.

— Hyundai_NFT (@Hyundai_NFT) April 17, 2022

Included successful the announcement was a teaser for a further “Shooting Star NFT” with a cryptic mentation that it is simply a “ticket to a full caller world” and mightiness pb to “new NFTs”.

In January, Hyundai shared its “Metamobility” concept, a imaginativeness for robotics to beryllium a mean betwixt the existent satellite and the Metaverse truthful changes users marque successful the Metaverse are reflected successful reality, which “allows radical to flooded the carnal limitations of question successful clip and space.”

As portion of its conception vision, Hyundai stated:

“With the metaverse acceptable to go a regular abstraction for radical successful the future, the institution expects the imaginable emergence of a caller benignant of metaverse level successful which the favoritism from world could disappear, breaking distant from the conception of VR arsenic the satellite knows it today.”

Hyundai continued its concept, hinting astatine a imaginable “Hyundai Metamobility universe” a metaverse with the issuance of assorted NFTs arsenic mobility vehicles.

Activision Blizzard surveys connected NFTs and play-to-earn

Activision Blizzard precocious sent retired a survey to players of its games, asking them to stock their involvement level successful NFTs, on with their thoughts connected play-to-earn and Metaverse games.

Twitter idiosyncratic @OTadaka shared a screenshot of the survey conducted by marketplace probe steadfast YouGov which attempted to gauge involvement successful antithetic categories of “future gaming trends.”

So it seems Blizzard/Activision is trying to spot if players are funny successful crypto and n.f*t successful games. I got a survey from them and it is connected the survey. I said precise disinterested to them. pic.twitter.com/dIT4bVokDK

— Okage Tadaka BlackLivesMatter StopAsianHate (@OTadaka) April 16, 2022

In January Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, stating astatine the clip that the acquisition would “provide gathering blocks for the Metaverse,” Microsoft CEO and president Satya Nadella added that gaming volition play a “key role” successful processing metaverse platforms.

Health information to beryllium trialed arsenic NFTs

Blockchain services institution HashCash Consultants announced connected April 16th that it was partnering with an unnamed UK- based institution to make NFTs which see information astir an individuals' health.

The firms volition enactment with volunteers who volition supply their wellness data, with the volition for it to beryllium made into an NFT truthful that it tin beryllium shared with healthcare providers, a determination the institution says tin beryllium much easy tracked and monetized by the owner.

Related: What are lavation trading and wealth laundering successful NFTs?

The merchandise provided an illustration of however this benignant of NFT could beryllium tracked and monetized with that of a DNA investigating kit institution selling its idiosyncratic information to a probe firm. The Founder and CEO of HashCash Consultants Raj Chowdhury explained:

“If your familial information were turned into NFTs, the accusation is past attached with an inherent diagnostic to beryllium tracked, this would alteration you to show wherever your information ends up and way the radical who clasp the NFT and besides fig retired if it is being utilized without permission.”

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Texas and Alabama authorities securities regulators person sent exigency cease and desist orders to Sand Vegas Casino Club for illegally offering implicit 11,000 NFTs to rise funds for its Metaverse-based casinos.

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Meanwhile, Louis Vuitton is continuing its Web3 plans with the release of caller NFTs arsenic portion of its “Louis: The Game” mobile game. The manner statement added caller levels and rewards to its app which volition randomly reward players with 10 caller “profile picture” benignant tokens.