Microsoft Says Its Metaverse Will Include Xbox Gaming

Facebook receives a metaverse. Fortnite receives a metaverse. You even get a metaverse! Microsoft now has its metaverse flag, and this will likely include Xbox gaming. 

The news is brought to you by a brand new Bloomberg report that details Microsoft’s overall metaverse plans, which will reportedly include PowerPoint and Excel in a 3D virtual space. This announcement comes days after Facebook declared that it was creating its metaverse. The Verge

Facebook’s metaverse course also includes gaming, namely in its Oculus Quest 2 brand, but Microsoft’s inclusion of Xbox could be much bigger as the latter is much larger than the virtual reality platform. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, stated in an interview that Xbox has some metaverses. 

“You can absolutely expect us to do things in gaming,” Nadella said. “If you take Halo as a game, it is a metaverse. Flight Sim is also a metaverse. In some sense, they are 2D today, but the question is, can you now take that to a full 3D world, and so we absolutely plan to do so.” 

Nadella hints at what that might look like in other parts of Bloomberg’s piece, although he doesn’t touch specifically on its application to gaming. However, Nadella says “you could, for instance, experience a Best Buy store in the metaverse,” and while there, check out devices that you might want to purchase. 

“Today, when you think of a website, it is not very well connected to the physicality of what we experience,” he continued. 

It seems bringing that 3D physicality to an otherwise 2D space is Microsoft and Xbox’s goal with the metaverse. If that means we’ll get to explore the Zeta Halo seen in Halo Infinite one day as our Xbox Avatars, then sign us up. 

You can check out Halo Infinite here Craig the Brute’s glow-upthen you can read more about it. 343 Industries took Halo 3 as their inspiration. for Infinite’s enemy and character designs. Take a look at Game Informer’s A breakdown of all we know about Halo infiniteAfterwards.

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