As Facebook pivots to Meta, Epic Games poaches its metaverse specialist


Epic Games, maker of 'Fortnite', has pried away one of Facebook's lead executives to lead its own efforts at creating a metaverse. — Dreamstime/TNS

Last week, Facebook changed its company name to Meta, a reflection of its efforts to create more tools and products for a concept called the metaverse.

Around the same time, Epic Games, the Cary, North Carolina-based video game developer, pried away one of Facebook’s lead executives to lead its own efforts at creating a metaverse.

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