Get the latest tech news
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s path to the open metaverse is via enlightened self-interest
To get to the open metaverse, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney wants platforms to embrace enlightened self-interest.
Fortnite Reload map Takahashi: The metaverse isn’t really here yet but your fight for open platform certainly is and it’s been a couple of months since you launched the Epic Games Store globally on Android and on iOS in the EU. AI is becoming a better tool for learning than like rummaging through a book or reading Wikipedia or posting on a forum and it’s really getting incredibly smart and sophisticated the ability to generate code is told not at a serious level. And, if the amount of effort needed per line of code to ship an MMO is like 10 or 100 times higher than a game, and so MMOs [are built at a] glacial pace compared to to normal games and so we’re working on this software — transactional memory technology — to enable programmers to write what looks like normal single thread code and then find the parallelism by running it across a lot of threads and across a lot of nodes in a data center in order to find the parallelism for them.
Or read this on Venture Beat