Sony –one of the world’s largest gaming companies—is embracing the metaverse as a way to create new experiences for game players. Sony (ticker: SONY ) CEO Kenichiro Yoshida added the metaverse is rising in importance, saying the company’s game division already has proficiency to generate realistic graphics, animations and sound. Other large technology companies have been investing aggressively in the metaverse—the futuristic vision where consumers can some day play, socialize and work in immersive virtual worlds. Read More...
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Facebook Hasn’t Changed Much (Except for the Name)
Barack Obama was in the White House back then and on that day he was meeting with then-French President Francois Hollande for the first time ahead of the G8 Summit, which was starting that evening at Camp David. Meanwhile, nearly 3,000 miles away in Menlo Park, Calif., a young man named Mark Zuckerberg rang a bell. The self-taught computer programmer–described by ABC News as “the Geek King of a Generation”–was announcing the first day of trading for the social media company he had co-founded, Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms , and the reverberations of the bell are still being felt today.
