AR/VR Weekly: Keep your stinkin’ corporate hands off the metaverse

The Metaverse™, as brought to you by Big Bad Mega-Conglomerate^®. It’s one of Tim Sweeney’s big nightmares for the future of virtual reality.

The Epic Games CEO spoke about this at our recent GamesBeat Summit. He worries that the major platforms will want to lock down key advancements in virtual reality, to the point that the concept of the massive virtual worlds we see in works like Ready Player One will only become reality thanks to one company’s tech.