Microsoft muscles in on first wave of the metaverse

With everyone playing catch up, Microsoft has given the world a first indication of how its metaverse path might diverge from Facebook. — Bloomberg

PARIS: US tech giant Microsoft’s US$69bil (RM289.31bil) purchase of Activision this week rocked the video game sector, but the deal may come to be remembered as the moment the metaverse went mainstream.

The metaverse is theoretically the future of the Internet, a 3D virtual world where people will be able to interact using sensors, lenses and other gadgets.