How to Use metaverse in a Sentence
metaverse
noun-
Faith in the metaverse, as the survey put it, lies with Epic Games.
— WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023 -
Now, Ikea is trying its hand in the Roblox metaverse as well—with a twist.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 June 2024 -
Think the metaverse or Amazon Alexa but in sport sedan form.
— Patrick George, The Verge, 5 Jan. 2023 -
The jerks and the misogynists have so far been left to shape the metaverse in their own image.
— Moira Donegan, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2023 -
Starbucks may not be done with its pup cups, but it is done with the metaverse.
— Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024 -
And by that time, the people who are saying the metaverse is over will not be able to catch up.
— Amy Verner, Vogue, 12 June 2023 -
Crypto’s winter has meant hard times in the nascent metaverse.
— Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023 -
Mark Zuckerberg could be on the verge of a big boost for his visions of an omnipresent metaverse.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023 -
Soon, all of our identities will just be in the metaverse or something.
— Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023 -
About 15 months ago, Mr. Zuckerberg went all in on the metaverse and renamed the company Meta.
— Mike Isaac, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023 -
Disney and Epic Games seem to understand that to build a metaverse, people need to want to be there.
— Gene Park, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024 -
Facebook changed its name to Meta and jumped headlong into the virtual world of the metaverse.
— Mike Isaac, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023 -
Think of an airplane in real life, and a copy simulated in the metaverse.
— Joanna Stern, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023 -
Are there any emerging areas, say AI or the metaverse, that you guys and Raine overall have been spending more time on?
— Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023 -
While the promise of the metaverse has declined, the appellation still stands (although maybe not on legs).
— Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 8 June 2023 -
The company who staked its literal name on the metaverse?
— Susan Howson, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024 -
But despite the many eulogies for the metaverse, the promise has not died and the technologies seem to be improving.
— WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023 -
The progress toward making the metaverse a reality hasn’t been without growing pains, to say the least.
— Paolo Confino, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023 -
There are satires on various forms of social media, YouTube channels and the metaverse.
— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023 -
Schissel’s metaverse is too flat to be entered, but nonetheless beckons the viewer in.
— Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022 -
Mark Zuckerberg will let kids as young as 10 years old use his company’s VR headsets to enter the metaverse.
— Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 June 2023 -
Some even argue that Fortnite, in its own right, is a functioning metaverse.
— Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023 -
But Meta’s high salaries and long-term investment in the metaverse also comes amid a frenzied push to rein in costs across the sprawling company.
— Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023 -
Zuckerberg has spent tens of billions of dollars on an effort to build the metaverse — a digital world where people can work and play.
— Kurt Wagner, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023 -
Ralph Lauren is one of the legacy brands embracing the metaverse as retail’s next frontier.
— Joan Verdon, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022 -
For example: When Meta held its Connect conference in October to showcase its progress on the metaverse, the stars of the show were, well, legs.
— Brian Merchant, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2022 -
But the metaverse could also emerge as a major competitor for Disney World.
— Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2021 -
Zuckerberg spent six minutes in his opening statement for the call discussing the company’s work on AI and 90 seconds on the metaverse.
— Alex Barinka, Bloomberg.com, 26 Apr. 2023 -
Meta has lost more than $46 billion on the metaverse in recent years and has little to show for it, with more recent efforts focused on its AI business.
— Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024 -
Meta isn’t finished spending big money on AI and the far-flung metaverse, which continues to lose billions of dollars each quarter.
— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
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