futurism
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Ready Player One Author Gives First Look at His Metaverse Battle Royale Game
Earlier this year, author Ernst Cline announced that his company would be launching a metaverse company. What made this deeply ironic was that Cline famously wrote Ready Player One, the popular science fiction novel about a dystopia where people escape the harsh realities of their world by plugging into a metaverse-like gaming environment. Now, as…
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You Call That a Metaverse? Meta Brings Horizon Worlds to Mobile and Desktop.
After two years, Meta has opened its Horizon Worlds metaverse video game up to users on phones and web browsers. The company announced Thursday that Horizon Worlds is no longer limited to users who shell out for one of the company’s expensive VR headsets. The expansion starts with Meta’s Super Rumble shooting game, and will…
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Apple Absent From Metaverse Standards Group That Includes Meta, Microsoft, and Others
Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Sony, and other tech giants have formed a group designed to ensure interoperability in the metaverse. Notably absent from this list of heavyweights is Apple, a company heavily rumoured to be working on its own mixed reality products.
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Amazon Exec LOLs at Zuckerberg’s Make-Believe Metaverse
Amazon’s head of devices took a swipe at Meta on Thursday, saying the company is working on enhancing a virtual world that will entice people to neglect the real world.