Marc Petit at Epic Games, is optimistic about the promise of the metaverse

Innovations that can fasten broader #metaverse adoption:

1) development of photogrammetry (gathering reliable information about physical objects via photographs) to cut the costs of building digital content;

2) use of machine learning to teach neural networks what content should look like;

3) good progress on cloud streaming;

4) adoption of real-time 3D by the open web with the evolving WebGPU standard.

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