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Rec Room’s Nick Fajt interview — Building a cross-platform metaverse

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 15 min

Rec Room is one of the companies that has a shot at leading the tech and games industries into the  metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One.

The company has raised $100 million at a $1.25 billion valuation, giving it a strong war chest at a time when other makers of user-generated content (UCG) are coming on strong.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.