Cary – While tech companies are investing in the Metaverse Including Epic GamesOne of the executives of a company headquartered in Cary Told Yahoo Finance At the beginning of today, people may not be interested.
“People are losing interest in the Metaverse because the characters look like legless cartoons,” Marc Petit, vice president and general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games, told Yahoo Finance reporter Daniel Howley.
Howley said the comments can be read as a covert attack on Facebook’s parent company Meta. It changed the company’s name and brand last year to meet the new promise of Metaverse, which allows people to experience reality in 3D extended digital. space.
Meta announcement, then Released “Holizon Worlds” platform last year.
Meta is not the only one who has shown an interest in the future of the Metaverse. Epic Games has also raised $ 2 billion from investors. Invest in MetaverseAccording to a previous WRAL TechWire report.
Epic deepens its dive into the Metaverse by trading with the world’s top advertising company WPP
Epic Games too Signed a contract with WPP Earlier this year. Cary-based Epic offers a new “Metaverse Curriculum” focused on 3D development and virtual production. And that’s the latest news. The company also Partnership with lego Build a “child-friendly” Metaverse ecosystem.
And the Metaverse is “New frontier“Maybe people don’t want to participate.
At least that’s what Petit told Yahoo Finance. Petit explains, “Who wants to be that? This isn’t attractive.” To describe a character that looks like a legless cartoon rather than an avatar.
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