Epic to Take Another Crack at Defining the Metaverse; Sony's VR Ambitions

Next Tuesday, Marc Petit of Epic Games plans to talk on the metaverse at the annual SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference. It’ll be a chance for someone other than CEO Tim Sweeney to explain Epic’s vision for this next stage of computing. Hopefully, given the venue, it’ll be more substantive than Sweeney’s tweets and testimony in the Epic v. Apple trial.

As the general manager of Epic’s Unreal Engine, Petit oversees Epic’s development software, which the company hopes will help propel the metaverse forward. Given his experience prior to Epic across various industries—including in game development, 3D modeling programs and cloud computing—Petit can explain exactly how Epic plans to tailor Unreal toward serving all those fields and more in a shared metaverse.