THE RACE is cashing in on the hype of the Metaverse. Last week, Microsoft described its $68.7 billion acquisition of game studio Activision Blizzard (often interpreted as a move by the Xbox maker to simply expand in gaming) as a way to create “the bedrock of virtual worlds.” Meta — which was renamed from Facebook to the Metaverse — is working on the world’s most powerful supercomputer to power the Metaverse.
Source: Big Tech Needs to Stop Trying to Make Their Metaverse Happen | WIRED
