Timberland embraced virtual design for its metaboot project.
Timberland embraced virtual design for its metaboot project.
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Epic Games’ Unreal Engine teams up with Timberland to marry fashion design and Fortnite

What would boots look like in the metaverse? Better yet, what would they look like as part of the landscape of Fortnite?

We see the answers to these questions in the art created by Epic Games, Timberland, and a group of footwear designers and artists known as ConceptKicks. And some of that “metaboot” art was created inside Fortnite.

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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.