Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, on stage at MWC with Alex Kipman of Microsoft.
Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, on stage at MWC with Alex Kipman of Microsoft.
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Tim Sweeney’s 2 minutes onstage at HoloLens 2 event says a lot about AR openness

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 2 min

One of the bigger surprises at Microsoft’s introduction of HoloLens 2 was the short appearance by Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, a veteran critic of Microsoft. After a couple of years battling Microsoft’s position on open platforms, Sweeney is finally praising it.

Alex Kipman, a technical fellow at Microsoft, said at Microsoft’s Mobile World Congress HoloLens 2 event that he was honored to introduce an “industry luminary to tell us about his dreams for mixed reality.”

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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.