{"id":11897,"date":"2022-01-12T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11897"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:29:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T00:29:24","slug":"gameverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/12\/gameverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Gameverse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/10\/opinion\/sway-kara-swisher-phil-spencer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To Understand the Metaverse, Look to Video Games<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Produced by\u00a0\u2018Sway\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.simplecastcdn.com\/images\/d0ad46f0-8c06-48f4-990e-3924425b10d3\/a61d92a9-33e2-4016-ab27-ea14f32b7fff\/3000x3000\/nyt-sway-albumartwork-3000px.jpg?aid=rss_feed\" alt=\"Sway - The New York Times\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to the metaverse, Phil Spencer could give Mark Zuckerberg a run for his money. The head of Xbox and executive vice president of gaming at Microsoft, Spencer says popular games like Microsoft\u2019s Halo and Minecraft \u2014 and competitors like Roblox and Fortnite \u2014 are already creating virtual worlds similar to the metaverse. And he says that video games, whose sales have soared during Covid, could offer lessons for the workplaces that have moved online in the pandemic: \u201cWe look at these virtual spaces, and some of the things that we\u2019ve learned in video games of people coming together to cooperate together, to achieve tasks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[You can listen to this episode of \u201cSway\u201d on\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sway\/id1528594034\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Apple<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/44fllCS2FTFr2x2kjP9xeT\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Spotify<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9sMmk5WW5UZA?sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjMm6fblpzuAhXKnnIEHVMCBW0Q9sEGegQIARAE\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Google<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/21\/opinion\/how-to-listen-to-sway.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>wherever you get your podcasts<\/em><\/a><em>.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/10\/opinion\/sway-kara-swisher-phil-spencer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The New<\/a> York Times ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times To Understand the Metaverse, Look to Video Games Produced by\u00a0\u2018Sway\u2019 When it comes to the metaverse, Phil Spencer could give Mark Zuckerberg a run for his money. The head of Xbox and executive vice president of gaming at Microsoft, Spencer says popular games like Microsoft\u2019s Halo and Minecraft \u2014 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}