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Tech 2021: Into the Metaverse We Go
Though more companies embraced mixed reality this year, Facebook was perhaps the most prominent. The company went as so far as to rebrand itself to show it was more than a social media platform. But amid all the hype, experts say the real metaverse won't be reality for some time. Take a look at how Mark Zuckerberg, along with Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Epic Games' Tim Sweeney, and others see the technology's future and its impact on how we interact online.
Why All the Fuss About the Metaverse?
Nov 1 (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O), opens new tab changed its name last week to Meta Platforms Inc to signal its focus on the metaverse, which it thinks will be the successor to the mobile internet. The metaverse broadly refers to the idea of a shared virtual platform that people can access through …
The metaverse has been a hot topic of conversation recently, with Facebook and Microsoft both staking claims. But what is the metaverse? And when will it get here? Author Neal Stephenson is credited with coining the term "metaverse" in his 1992 science fiction novel "Snow Crash," in which he …
The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s the next big breakthrough in technology. It’s a joke. It’s a marketing strategy. It’s a techno-dystopian nightmare. It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, …
Rather than ruling one metaverse, Microsoft wants its Mesh platform to be the glue that holds a multiverse of many worlds together. Microsoft Teams has 250 million users worldwide. And starting in 2022, they will be able to take meetings in virtual spaces, by donning virtual-reality and …
The Chief Executive Officer of Epic Games sees the “metaverse” as a potentially “multitrillion-dollar part of the world economy.” Tim Sweeney’s Epic …
Almost three decades since sci-fi author Neal Stephenson coined the phrase, the metaverse is moving closer to reality. But despite well over $10 …
Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception. A big shift is apparently underway in Silicon Valley. The company that operates the world’s largest and most profitable social media network will not, according …
The maker of Pokémon Go wants to power future AR glasses. Niantic is releasing a platform for building what it calls “real-world metaverse” apps. Called Lightship, the platform is “built around the parts necessary to stitch together the digital and the real world,” CEO John Hanke tells me. According …
It was terrible then, and it’s terrible now. In a booth at Ted’s Fish Fry, in Troy, New York, my friend Daniel Beck and I sketched out our plans for the metaverse. It was November 1994, just as the graphical web was becoming a thing, and we thought that the 3-D web could be just a few tweaks down …