{"id":134740,"date":"2022-01-26T20:27:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T04:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/gaming-will-lead-us-to-the-metaverse"},"modified":"2022-01-26T20:27:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T04:27:40","slug":"gaming-will-lead-us-to-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/gaming-will-lead-us-to-the-metaverse","title":{"rendered":"Gaming will lead us to the metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gaming-will-lead-us-to-the-metaverse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed Facebook\u2019s name to Meta and committed to the metaverse, he said that gaming would lead the way.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s an interesting comment, considering that Facebook has billions of social media users, while game companies like Roblox and Microsoft (Minecraft) have amassed hundreds of millions of gamers. In fact, the entire game industry\u2019s reach is about as big as Facebook\u2019s alone, at around three billion people.<\/p>\n<p>Though, the numbers of users isn\u2019t the only thing that matters when it comes to building a metaverse that people actually want to go to. It\u2019s challenging to predict who will win, as the incumbents in the space \u2014 game companies \u2014 may not have an advantage if another party enters the space and creates an ambitious next-generation metaverse. But it is important to note that, Zuckerberg isn\u2019t alone in believing in gaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed Facebook\u2019s name to Meta and committed to the metaverse, he said that gaming would lead the way. That\u2019s an interesting comment, considering that Facebook has billions of social media users, while game companies like Roblox and Microsoft (Minecraft) have amassed hundreds of millions of gamers. In fact, the entire game [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}