That VR headset is something Mark Zuckerberg would love to have.
That VR headset is something Mark Zuckerberg would love to have.
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The Peripheral’s creators and cast embraced the mainstreaming of nerdy metaverse culture

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Science fiction is getting to be less fiction and more science. And I thought how that is true about the metaverse as I watched The Peripheral streaming show.

Apple CEO Tim Cook recently dissed the term “metaverse”as something that people don’t understand and that probably won’t be good for 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.