Sweeney’s Gaming and Metaverse Vision

Sweeney’s Gaming and Metaverse Vision

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| VentureBeat |

VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi interviews Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney:

  • Open Collaboration: Sweeney advocates for an open metaverse through collaboration across tech and entertainment, despite platform fees from Apple and Google that he considers hinders investment.
  • Regulatory Shift: He supports antitrust measures worldwide to limit restrictive platform practices, seeing regulatory progress as crucial for a fairer metaverse ecosystem.
  • Epic’s Fab Marketplace: Epic’s new cross-platform marketplace, Fab, offers 3D assets compatible with multiple engines to cut content creation costs by enabling asset reuse.
  • Disney Partnership: Epic and Disney are building an interconnected Disney metaverse linked to Fortnite, allowing interoperable in-game purchases across platforms.
  • AI and Unreal Engine 6: AI and Unreal Engine 6 aim to support massive multiplayer worlds and boost developer productivity, which Sweeney sees as central to achieving the metaverse vision.

Read More – https://venturebeat.com/ai/epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeneys-path-to-the-open-metaverse-is-via-enlightened-self-interest/

Editor’s Comment – A must read for Sweeney’s vision of the future of gaming and the metaverse.

Image – Fortnite Reload map

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