Metaverse startups must heed the mistakes of the past 40 years of virtual worlds
When it comes to the development of the metaverse, we think of companies like Epic Games with Fortnite and Roblox with its huge world,...
How Unity is positioning itself to democratize the metaverse
“Right now we’re just at the cusp of getting to the point where a lot of technologies, a lot of concepts, are coming together,...
Crucible is creating agents to keep the metaverse open
If you want to cruise around the metaverse in the future, you might do it with multiple digital identities, or agents. And if that...
Tim Sweeney: The open metaverse requires companies to have enlightened self-interest
Twenty years ago, at the dawn of the Xbox era, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney convinced Bill Gates to spend a billion dollars on...
Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki believes users will create the metaverse
Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki wants to inhabit the metaverse — an online place where we work and play and entertain ourselves. He has dreamed...
The DeanBeat: Predictions for gaming in 2021
This past year was one of the most unpredictable in all of human history. The pandemic threw off our ability to predict what will...
IMVU: Making the coin of the realm for the metaverse
IMVU has been a relatively quiet and unnoticed company in the online gaming and social media worlds. But the company did something recently that...
Roblox partners with Ernest Cline on Ready Player Two event
Ready Player Two, the highly anticipated sequel to Ernest Cline’s worldwide best-selling book Ready Player One, debuts in the U.S. and U.K. on November...
The DeanBeat — Here’s my Thanksgiving DeanBits
This is my last column before Thanksgiving and before the Black Friday frenzy, and so I thought it would be better to write a...
Upland lets players trade virtual property for real money using Tilia Pay
Upland is launching virtual asset trading using Second Life’s payment network, dubbed Tilia Pay. That means that you’ll be able to acquire real-world properties...