Let's hope that sniper can't see that far in Fortnite.
Let's hope that sniper can't see that far in Fortnite.
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The DeanBeat: The problem of the sniper and the metaverse

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 8 min

I’ve been talking with our speakers for our upcoming metaverse event to get a preview of their views on challenges in building the metaverse. And one interesting thing I’ve heard so far is problem of the sniper and the metaverse.

Kim Libreri, chief technology officer at Epic Games, brought it up to me first in a preview of our talk at GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2.

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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.