{"id":66360,"date":"2022-08-26T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66360"},"modified":"2025-09-07T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:54:11","slug":"xbox-chief-optimistic-about-metaverses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/xbox-chief-optimistic-about-metaverses\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox chief optimistic about metaverses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Xbox CEO Phil Spencer, in an interview with Bloomberg Technology, said that gamers have been in <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-metaverse\">metaverses<\/a> for the last 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, today most games\u2014from World of Warcraft and Roblox to racing simulators\u2014offer a three-dimensional world with the ability to communicate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not at all surprised that gamers don\u2019t understand what metaverses are. After all, we already have our own avatar, and we can enter a shared world and talk to people from anywhere,\u201d said an Xbox top executive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Spencer expressed interest in the development of virtual worlds, but urged caution regarding Play-to-Earn games due to speculation in the market <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-nfts\">NFT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on Bloomberg Studio 1.0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LQqovjeAK8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In January, Microsoft\u2014the company behind Xbox\u2014announced the $68.7 billion acquisition of game developer and publisher Activision Blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that the acquisition <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-in-move-hailed-as-step-toward-a-metaverse\">\u201cwill provide building blocks for creating a metaverse\u201d<\/a>. The deal was expected to close by June 30, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, billionaire Mark Cuban <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/mark-cuban-calls-the-stupidest-move-to-buy-real-estate-in-the-metaverses\">called the \u201cdumbest\u201d idea<\/a> of purchasing land, mansions and other real estate in virtual worlds.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Trend Micro researchers said that the development of metaverses <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/trend-micro-flags-threats-to-metaverses\">will lead to the spread of traditional cyber threats<\/a> and the emergence of new ones.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog\u2019s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 crypto news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox CEO Phil Spencer said that gamers have been in {{AOPEN_1}}metaverses{{ACLOSE_1}} for the last 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1353,15,1138,1361],"class_list":["post-66360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-metaverses","tag-microsoft","tag-opinions","tag-virtual-world-innovations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66362,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66360\/revisions\/66362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}