Epic Games CEO Metaverse is not dead

Re:Epic Games CEO Metaverse is not dead by blobbers on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:58PM (#35891821)

I'm curious what people think of this. PUBG/Fortnite don't seem like metaverse apps... they're just games.

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Re:Epic Games CEO Metaverse is not dead by idiomaticrust on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:06PM (#35891953)

I think it was in Masters of Doom - Carmack was dreaming about a metaverse build on Quake 1.

The game can be a starting point.

I would say that Fortnite is 100x better starting point for the metaverse than what Meta did - the game engine that looked like a 2009 product.

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Re:Epic Games CEO Metaverse is not dead by smoldesu on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:19PM (#35892151)

I dunno, their more recent results are pretty impressive: https://twitter.com/AiBreakfast/status/1652121065194409985

People like to dog on their early marketing material, but it's not exactly a far cry from Animojis or Samsung's equivalent Memoji garbage. In this case, it looks like Meta took the criticism to heart and used it to develop something much more advanced.

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