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Epic Games raised $1 billion to fund its vision for building the metaverse – The Mandarin
The metaverse will be a digitised version of life where anyone can exist as a digital human and interact with others in ‘much, much more interesting’ ways.
If you saw the 2018 movie Ready Player One, you may remember the Oasis: a glitzy, fast-paced metaverse with gleaming cities, beautiful people (or, avatars, to be precise), and excitement of many varieties; in short, the perfect escape from the drudgery of real life.
We may be on track to our own version of the Oasis after an announcement yesterday from Epic Games that it has raised $1 billion to put towards building the metaverse.
Epic Games created the hit video game Fortnite, and its Unreal engine…
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