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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people.

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Supernatural for Oculus Quest is like Beat Saber meets Peloton

The Verge

To use a reductive comparison, Supernatural is sort of like Beat Saber meets Peloton. It’s sort of a natural extension of your existing biological architecture,” Milk says. Beat Saber , to draw the most obvious comparison, costs $29.99 You’re licensing a large catalog and not just one individual song. I’ve been using VR.

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Microsoft’s Phil Spencer on launching the new Xbox

The Verge

We’re talking about the entire architecture of games moving to streaming. Do you think that’s a fair comparison? Let me make the Netflix comparison just to have done it, just to check the box. They were licensing TV shows from networks that had no streaming capability of their own. I do, yeah. That’s quite a rise.

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