Inside China
Inside China
South China Morning Post
The metaverse beyond Facebook: Tencent, ByteDance, Roblox, Fortnite go all in
36 minutes Posted Oct 28, 2021 at 1:28 am.
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Are you ready, player one? A change is coming, promising to transform the web into the “metaverse”. SCMP tech desk reporters Xinmei Shen and Josh Ye analyse what it means, and why the likes of Facebook as well as China’s major tech giants, game developers and investors are all focused on a change some believe will be as big as the arrival of the World Wide Web itself. Hear from Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mark Kanterman on the investments he's documenting and just what the metaverse…