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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. Beat Saber , to draw the most obvious comparison, costs $29.99 You’re licensing a large catalog and not just one individual song. But why only launch on one piece of hardware in the first place? “It I’ve been using VR.

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Microsoft’s Phil Spencer on launching the new Xbox

The Verge

The decision to do hardware SKUs was really centered on that. But] if it’s, we’re going to go compete with one hardware competitor and we just want to make it as easy as possible to compare our one product to their one product, that was the thought process that would have you push to say, no, just do one thing. Is it playing out?

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