Tim Sweeney believes the metaverse is "happening for real"

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Epic Games showcased its vision for a metaverse at today’s State of Unreal, during which it unveiled more details about the economy around its Unreal Editor for Fortnite, a new unified marketplace, Fab, which offers assets across several game engines, new Metahumans animation tools, and more.

Talking to GamesIndustry.biz at GDC 2023, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney further clarified his vision for an open ecosystem across the games industry.

During the presentation, Sweeney had described the company's various announcements as a milestone for Epic's "unified" vision of the metaverse, adding that "the metaverse has to be open, it can't be another walled garden."

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Marie Dealessandri