A killer app for the metaverse? Fill it with AI avatars of ourselves – so we don't need to go there
- Written by Alex Connock, Fellow at Said Business School, University of Oxford, University of Oxford
Ready avatar one?Athitat ShinagowinBig numbers coming. Microsoft’s US$75 billion (£55 billion) acquisition of Activision Blizzard has landed – true to Call of Duty vernacular – “like a bomb” on the US$200 billion revenue video games industry.
It heavily arms the Xbox giant for its vision of the metaverse, in...