Epic Games and Google are working out their differences, but documents released today show that they just don’t agree on how Google is changing things for the App Store. According to a heavily amended section of the revised binding term sheet, the two companies have also agreed to terms for a new category of apps they are calling “Metaverse Browser.”
While the term “metaverse” has largely fallen out of vogue – for example, Mark Zuckerberg is now more interested in AI – Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has been talking about the metaverse for years and how it might work in the future. (Depending on how you define the concept, epic Fortnite It’s already arguably one of the largest volumes of the metaverse.) And this isn’t actually the first time there’s been a relationship with Epic and Google regarding the metaverse; In court in January, while discussing the secret $800 million Unreal Engine and Services deal, Sweeney made it clear that the agreement related to the Metaverse.
Unfortunately, the amendments to the revised binding term sheet hide many important details about what the Metaverse Browser actually is. But from what is visible in the documentation, the Metaverse browser will do this:
In a blog post today about Google’s changes, Epic also vaguely noted that “Google will take steps to support the open metaverse in the future.”
When contacted for comment The VergeEpic spokeswoman Natalie Munoz and Google spokesman Dan Jackson both said they had nothing further to share.
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