>>16653404>What exactly was a metaverse again and why are they buying a failing game maker company?"Metaverse" just means "normie grade Mixed Reality".
And no, Cover is not that interesting or Sony would've bought them rather than trying to out-compete them halfheartedly.
>>16653521That or they'd buy the people behind Niji's & Holo's 3D tech. XSens, IIRC. Which is also what CodeMiko uses and while she's a lame-ass streamer she is a great tech demo.
OR they'd buy Live2D and revive Euclid.
Really, though. The next big big big big BIG thing in VR/AR/Mixed Reality is currently worked on by NVidia (and others, with a fair bit of gap) and is called Pose Estimation. It's effectively a way for Neural Networks to calculate (you)r position in 3D space using camera data and apply it to a virtual model.
Think EyeToy with the raw power of an 8000 dollar mocap setup. Just set up 1 - 3 cameras, clear some space and you've got studio-quality 3D for the cost of a custom VRChat avatar.
https://medium.com/aiguys/pose-estimation-and-nvidias-breakthrough-16fb6263bd48https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrKlPvWvQ2Q 
