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6 Big Tech Visions of the Metaverse: Apple, Epic, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Roblox

Apple

Apple’s vision of the metaverse is very centralized, using their vertically integrated hardware and software. ...

Unlike Meta, Apple seems to have a stronger grip on user privacy, but they’re still gathering our facial ID’s and fingerprints, and could soon have more exhaustive biometric prints for each individual.

Epic Games (Unreal)

... Fortnite is like a mini-metaverse, where players can create their own Avatars, and buy digital items using an in-game currency called V-bucks, watch movies, and enjoy concerts by famous musicians as their own Avatars. ...

Meta

The Meta metaverse vision literally brands the trend. ... Meta knows all about leveraging user information, no matter how comfortable you are with that notion, and we’ll be giving away a whole lot more in the metaverse. ...

Microsoft

Their metaverse is all about virtual collaborative and communication, connecting and leveraging their popular products with new mixed reality offerings. ...

NVIDIA

The GPU manufacturer’s vision is a platform they call the Omniverse, geared for collaboration on projects, to connect 3D worlds into a shared virtual universe. It can be used for creating ‘digital twins,’ simulations of real-world buildings and factories. ...

Roblox

Roblox is a popular gaming platform for kids, that allows players not only to play but to build games on their platform. Roblox also allows players to buy, sell, and create virtual items which can be used to decorate their virtual character that serves as their avatar on the platform. Avatars can be moved across the different apps seamlessly. ... As of August 2020, Roblox had over 164 million monthly active users, with it being played by over half of all children aged under 16 in the United States.[9][10] ... Roblox users can literally grow with the platform, and help create and drive adoption of an alternate metaverse platform to those used by an older demographic.

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