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Disney to Acquire $1.5 Billion Stake in Epic Games, Aims to Create Joint Metaverse

DIGIT — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:00:36 +0000

Disney, one of the biggest entertainment companies, has decided to acquire a $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, makers of the known persistent metaverse platform Fortnite. The companies will collaborate to develop a metaverse featuring Disney-owned intellectual properties (IPs) which will benefit from interaction and coexistence with Fortnite. The Disney Metaverse Is Coming Disney is […]

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Disney Reportedly Axing Metaverse Division Amidst Company Restructuring

DIGIT — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 04:30:53 +0000

The metaverse division of Disney has apparently fallen victim to the latest round of layoffs announced by the company. Per reports from the Wall Street Journal citing people “familiar with the situation,” the whole next-generation storytelling and consumer-experience unit, comprised of 50 people, has been axed — this being part of the 7,000 layoffs the […]

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Disney reportedly scraps its metaverse division

DIGIT — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 06:30:00 +0000

The metaverse division was initially created to work on new ways of engaging Disney’s audience.

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Disney brings back Bob Iger as CEO: Here’s the crypto connection

DIGIT — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 06:50:56 +0000

Since leaving The Walt Disney Company, Bob Iger has been acting as an advisor and board member for the digital avatar platform Genies.

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Disney Moves Toward the Metaverse With Approved US Patent to Create a ‘Virtual-World Simulator’

DIGIT — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:30:23 +0000

A recently discovered patent shows the American multinational entertainment and media conglomerate, Walt Disney Company, was approved by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a “virtual-world simulator” patent. The simulator is composed of a “three-dimensional (3D) map of the geometry of the real-world venue.” Disney’s Virtual-World Simulator Patent Follows Bob Chapek’s Discussion […]

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