Keke Palmer is driving to the metaverse.

Meta gets Keke Palmer to decipher the metaverse

Meta has launched a video series to help explain the metaverse, and it has hired Keke Palmer as the host of the show called Are we there yet?

The “metaverse 101” video conversation is aimed at explaining the metaverse — which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pouring money into because he sees it as the next version of the internet — to regular people.

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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.