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There are 7,000 simulated buildings in the Unreal Engine 5 demo.

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The DeanBeat: Get ready for an awesome GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 17, 2021
6 min

I’m getting very excited about our awesome GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event coming in just six weeks. And it feels like the...

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Pac-Man Community will let audiences play co-op games with streamers live.

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Mark Zuckerberg launches Pac-Man Community audience-played game on Facebook/Meta

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 6, 2021
5 min

Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that Pac-Man Community is debuting on Facebook Gaming as one of the first games where audiences can play together while spectating....

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Facebook/Meta and YellowHead have teamed up to provide a startup hub in Israel.

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Facebook/Meta teams up with YellowHead to create Israeli startup hub

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 16, 2021
2 min

Mobile marketing firm YellowHead and Facebook/Meta have launched the Meta Startup Hub, which is providing a variety of help to Israeli startups. Both companies...

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The Metaverse ETF is an index for the future of the internet.

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Creating $Meta — How the Metaverse ETF thinkers picked stocks so you can invest in the metaverse

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 9, 2021
9 min

The metaverse feels like it could be years away from reaching its full fruition, but a group of visionaries think of it as the...

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9 min

Mark Zuckerberg said games will be popular in the metaverse.

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GamesBeat Summit Next: The revenge of the nerds

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 9, 2021
11 min

We’re kicking off our GamesBeat Summit Next event today with a speech from yours truly. This extended version of the talk introduces the ideas...

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11 min

Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook Connect.

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The DeanBeat: Facebook’s ambitions to be the metaverse

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 29, 2021
8 min

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s decision to change his corporation’s name to Meta yesterday at the Facebook Connect online event was a historic moment. The...

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8 min

The future of the metaverse looks a lot like the present of Roblox.

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Facebook stops just short of rebranding to ‘The Web’

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 28, 2021
2 min

Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta today. Facebook.com is still Facebook.com, though. This is a move to embrace the metaverse, which is a...

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2 min

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Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 28, 2021
12 min

Facebook has turned its social media battleship toward the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow...