Epic Games ‘Metaverse’ Completes $1B Funding with $200M from Sony—Developers to Build a Digital Reality

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/259056/20210413/epic-games-metaverse-completes-1b-funding-200m-sony-build-digital-reality.htm

According to Venture Beat, Epic Games has recently had a successful round of funding, raising a sum of $1 billion for its proposed digital reality world

The metaverse idea of connecting all of Epic Games’ titles is an ingenious way of integrating one game after the other, becoming the common ground for all games, each player with their avatars. This highly resembles “Ready Player One’s” OASIS metaverse, which is a digital, virtual, and augmented reality that leads to different online platforms.

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more on VR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+reality