Jensen Huang's virtual kitchen was really virtual.
Jensen Huang's virtual kitchen was really virtual.
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Jensen Huang interview: The physical world and the metaverse can be connected

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been talking about the metaverse for years. It doesn’t have a lot to do with the company’s revenues, which come from AI and graphics chips sales and reached $6.51 billion in the most recent quarter.

But Huang likes to inspire his engineers with the notion that their AI advances and graphics innovations will one day bring us the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One. Huang has said that “we’re living in science fiction,” given all of technology’s advances made possible by Moore’s Law advances and accompanying software updates.

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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.