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"The'game'is definitely a core part, because without the game itself, something like this wouldn't exist without a game engine, and this game is exactly the game. We made the engine. For a long time, the game engine was the only major tool for real-time 3D graphics. Of course, there were some colleges doing things like simulation, but for consumers it was mostly games. ".
Game engines are also used to make movies, so Rubin points out that what we're building for the Metaverse is based on game engines. He added that much of the revenue for smartphones is generated by games, and so much is generated for VR headsets.
"People love to play. We love to play like we did when we were kids and never give up. To be honest, I think more games would make the world happier. Play is good, so games should be a great way for people to spend a lot of time together. Build an identity system, do something with someone else, something together. And we believe that relationships begin to form because people are there and the possibilities are there. "
Meta has already entered VR fitness through apps such as Beat Saber, which combines games and exercise. However, the Metaverse will spread to education, shopping, travel, and so on. "Games are the catalyst for it," Rubin said, "because every new computer system proves that games are a core use case."
When Facebook Meta asked that some people seemed to prefer a "walled garden," he argued that it wasn't right.
"We really want to have a more open Metaverse. We have set up several endowments, including the $ 50 million XR Research Fund, in collaboration with scholars and others, in the Metaverse. We are thinking about what we should be. We also have an education fund to learn how to make the Metaverse, and we have already started discussions on the openness of the Metaverse. We are in any ID system, in any space. I think the ideal situation is to be able to dive into, and when it becomes possible to move between ID systems, be free to move between those systems without losing friends or groups with them. Should be. "
In an interview, he pointed out that trying to integrate Meta's graphics shader system with someone else's system would be a challenge. He also mentioned whether non-fungible tokens (NFT / non-fungible tokens) will be utilized.
"First of all,'decentralization' can solve the ownership problem, but there is a question of how to solve the technical problem of actually rendering and realizing this. Who does Facebook do this? We want to make it a place where everyone can contribute and move from one metaverse to another. "
For key technologies, he believes blockchain and other standards will be important, but it's still unclear how they will work in the Metaverse. "I think cloud streaming will be extremely important, because I don't want to write an instance of every piece of hardware in the Metaverse," he said.
Mobile technologies and cloud streaming will have to make significant progress to meet the load. And various technical languages and standards for making products must be interoperated. At the end of the chat, I asked, "Will there be one experience on all platforms?"
"We've been playing with AR and VR, but I don't know what the boundaries are, what's good and what's bad. I don't know if this will remain ambiguous for some time. Smartphones Doesn't change exponentially with each generation. For the time being, I think VR will spawn many new technologies and new ideas. AR hasn't even started that curve of what it can do. And it's not really clear where the line between the two will be, and whether the device will eventually be able to do both. "
These are all unanswered questions at this time. He said the answer would be developers, creators, and thousands of people "trying things out for a long time" to discover. Beat Saber also said that while entertainment is a good example at this point of the pinnacle of what VR can do, it will be replaced by someone someday. At the time of such a farewell, I would love to see what Rubin is working on, so I told him I should get back to work so that I could get it sooner, and he said, "I'll do my best."
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