Epic CEO mocks notion 'metaverse is dead' - 600 million coming in 'wake'
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has mocked a recent Business Insider article suggesting the Metaverse has followed suit. course.
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is still optimistic about the metaverse, after mocking a recent suggestion that online virtual worlds are "dead".
The now-billionaire video game entrepreneur - creator of the Unreal Engine and Fortnite - took to Twitter on May 9 to mock a recently published Business Insider article titled "RIP Metaverse, We Knew You barely".
The metaverse is dead! Let's hold an online vigil so that we, the 600,000,000 monthly active users of Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox, PUBG Mobile, Sandbox and VRChat, can mourn his passing together in real-time 3D.https://t.co /tRpFHsdZLw
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) May 9, 2023The article by the PR firm's CEO, Ed Zitron, suggested that the "once-hyped technology" was "dead after being abandoned by the business world".
The article specifically mentioned Meta's virtual reality (VR) platform, Horizon Worlds, which Zitron says has failed to deliver on its "great promise" of becoming the future of the internet.< /p>
He also mentions Yuga Labs' Decentraland and Otherside as examples of metaverses that apparently haven't lived up to their hype and says investors have turned their attention to the next big tech fad - generative AI. .
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has mocked a recent Business Insider article suggesting the Metaverse has followed suit. course.
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is still optimistic about the metaverse, after mocking a recent suggestion that online virtual worlds are "dead".
The now-billionaire video game entrepreneur - creator of the Unreal Engine and Fortnite - took to Twitter on May 9 to mock a recently published Business Insider article titled "RIP Metaverse, We Knew You barely".
The metaverse is dead! Let's hold an online vigil so that we, the 600,000,000 monthly active users of Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox, PUBG Mobile, Sandbox and VRChat, can mourn his passing together in real-time 3D.https://t.co /tRpFHsdZLw
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) May 9, 2023The article by the PR firm's CEO, Ed Zitron, suggested that the "once-hyped technology" was "dead after being abandoned by the business world".
The article specifically mentioned Meta's virtual reality (VR) platform, Horizon Worlds, which Zitron says has failed to deliver on its "great promise" of becoming the future of the internet.< /p>
He also mentions Yuga Labs' Decentraland and Otherside as examples of metaverses that apparently haven't lived up to their hype and says investors have turned their attention to the next big tech fad - generative AI. .
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