Q&A with Xbox Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball about returning to console-exclusive releases, how using in-game ads could offset development costs, and more
‘If Xbox can turn things around, the whole industry can,’ says Ball — Listen now on Apple, Spotify or YouTube
Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO
The second major Xbox leadership changes this month. … Microsoft has recruited game industry analyst Matthew Ball as Xbox chief strategy officer.
Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO
The second major Xbox leadership changes this month. … Microsoft has recruited game industry analyst Matthew Ball as Xbox chief strategy officer.
Q&A with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on the company's metaverse strategy, barriers to MR/VR growth, Reality Labs spending, AR glasses, AI, and more
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WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dropped from ~$45 in 2022 to $5 in 2023, as the hype around the metaverse has receded
but Lyft's New CEO Has It Worse Mastodon: Mike Elgan / @MikeElgan@mastodon.social : Word of the moment: “meh-taverse” — https://www.wsj.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra@mastodonapp.uk : The Metav...
Clay Bavor, a Google veteran of 18 years who recently led the company's AR/VR efforts, leaves to start an AI company with former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor
17m — I started my first business in second grade … Leo Gebbie / independent : Don't expect to see an Apple virtual-reality headset soon Tweets: Megan Quinn / @msquinn : Impossible to overstate how ...
If the metaverse takes off, it could take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games
it was a game, a farming simulator, played by tens of millions of people on Facebook—before asking if we might be interested in some eggs. @NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/... Matthew Ball / @ball...
Q&A with Zuckerberg about his vision for the metaverse and its potential to further splinter our sense of shared reality, Biden's comments about Facebook, more
As June came to an end, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees about an ambitious new initiative. Tweets: @ballmatthew , @caseynewton , @reckless , @craigsilverman , @reese_shapiro , @reckles...