Unity CFO Kim Jabal explains the need to balance market share and profits, as well as the mission to make everyone a creator. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Dean Takahashi
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The PS5 is facing component shortages that may hurt its sales in the first year, but it’s not just the PS5 that is affected. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Jeff Grubb
The blockchain-based virtual world that can help usher in the metaverse
This virtual world based on blockchain has an approach to perpetual, player-owned tokens that could point the way toward the metaverse. AR/VR – VentureBeat & VB Staff
Community, connection, and vulnerability in the metaverse
Megan Fitzgerald, Jessica Freeman, and Lauren Bigelow talk about the ways the metaverse will change how we connect in 2D and 3D. AR/VR – VentureBeat & VB Staff
The DeanBeat: Our 360-degree view of the metaverse ecosystem
Our GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse gave us a 360-degree view of the metaverse ecosystem as its being built. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Dean Takahashi
The metaverse will feel alive once ‘storytelling’ becomes ‘storyliving’
The metaverse is esoteric, both defying definition and requiring it. Redefining storytelling as storyliving puts the player at the center. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Amanda Farough
Metaverse startups must heed the mistakes of the past 40 years of virtual worlds
Startups like Playable Worlds and Manticore are taking different approaches to the metaverse and have 40 years of mistakes to learn from. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Jason Wilson
How the metaverse can shake up storytelling with transmedia characters
The metaverse isn’t just an opportunity for a new kind of social world. It can let players create stories across multiple different worlds. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Mike Minotti
Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith: We’re not ready for real-world braindancing
Cyberpunk 2077 introduced another take on virtual reality when it launched late last year. Braindancing (the downloading of data from an experience to view it through someone else) saw players experience an event from another person’s point of view. It went deeper than what we experience in the real world with virtual reality headsets like […]
Now is the time to experiment with virtual reality design
The pandemic has seen more people turn to VR for social interactions and even work. Now is the time for VR designers to take chances. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Aron Garst