They both want to control the future of computing. I see the war brewing between Facebook and Apple. The war between Facebook and AppleД«ut heвЂ™s not the only one who sees it. The metaverse will happen because capital is betting that it will happen, and IвЂ™ll grant that Zuckerberg has some wisdom in seeing this. You donвЂ™t orchestrate something so huge, something on the scale of the Manhattan Project, and then come out of it on the other side without an atomic bomb. If I were to bring up my favorite adage again - follow the money - I would conclude that so much money is going into the metaverse that it is going to happen. If he can deliver on his animated visions with the real thing, then that would be really something. But ZuckerbergвЂ™s cool images and videos got the feeling right. What we are hoping for is just a long way from reality. I know we are a long way from the real metaverse that we all want to be amazingly immersive and instantaneous and ubiquitous regardless of our locations in the world. I think a lot of smart people realize that, and theyвЂ™re dreaming about it too alongside Zuckerberg. Because we succeeded with AI, we have a chance to succeed with the metaverse. And yes, AI is one of the necessary breakthroughs that we need to build the metaverse. Now AI is huge, with 8,500 startups working on so many new technologies, and it is leading to advances in other areas.

But Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, is famous for saying вЂњweвЂ™re living in science fiction.вЂќ He meant that AI struggled for so long and finally began working around six years ago.

The smart pundits at places like CNN are mocking Zuckerberg for being such a geek. So I think itвЂ™s still important to push forward and continue trying to create what the future is.вЂќДЄll of us science fiction geeks have been laughed at. At the same time, I think there will always be issues in the present. And weвЂ™re committed to continuing to do that and continuing the massive industry-leading effort that we have on that. And I want to acknowledge that there are clearly important issues to work on in the present. In a press event ahead of the announcement, he said (given the controversies), вЂњI just want to acknowledge that I get that probably there are a bunch of people will say that this isnвЂ™t a time to focus on the future. Zuckerberg had some awareness he would be criticized. And I never expected Facebook, a company with enough money to do the job, to embrace the metaverse like it did yesterday. (WeвЂ™ve got another conference, GamesBeat Summit Next on November 9-10 where weвЂ™re talking about the metaverse again, and our second annual metaverse event will come in January.) While people laughed at me, I stayed the course. Against the advice of some, I created a metaverse event in January 2021, and it had 30 panels on the metaverse and brought together many of gamingвЂ™s leaders. I have been mocked for believing in the metaverse. And as Zuckerberg said, you should feel a sense of presence, or that feeling you have been transported somewhere else. As futurist Matthew Ball said, the metaverse is something that you should feel youвЂ™re inside of. It has been decades in the making, and while itвЂ™s here in some small forms like Second Life and Grand Theft Auto Online, and Roblox, it isnвЂ™t really here yet. But IвЂ™ve been thinking about it ever since reading novels such as Snow CrashВ and Ready Player One. Lots of people have mocked the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected. While many people made fun of Zuckerberg, I saw some shrewd moves. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.

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