{"id":1227699,"date":"2022-01-20T14:07:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1227699"},"modified":"2022-01-20T14:07:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:07:35","slug":"wsj-microsoft-is-preparing-to-fight-facebook-in-metaverse-turf-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wsj-microsoft-is-preparing-to-fight-facebook-in-metaverse-turf-war\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Microsoft Is Preparing to Fight Facebook in Metaverse Turf War"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwsj-microsoft-is-preparing-to-fight-facebook-in-metaverse-turf-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1227699&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The <em>Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<\/em>states in a recent article that Microsoft\u2019s latest moves in the gaming and online community space show that while Facebook is attempting to shape the future of the online metaverse, Microsoft isn\u2019t going to allow the social media giant to control it so easily.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/microsoft-shows-meta-wont-own-the-verse-11642680004\">article<\/a> titled \u201cMicrosoft shows Meta won\u2019t own the \u2018Verse,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<\/em>notes that tech giant Microsoft recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/01\/18\/microsoft-to-acquire-game-published-activision-blizzard-in-massive-68-7b-deal\/\">acquired video game developer Activision Blizzard<\/a> for the massive sum of $69 billion. This purchase brought popular game franchises like&nbsp;<em>World of Warcraft<\/em> and&nbsp;<em>Call of Duty<\/em> under the Microsoft banner, allowing the company to seriously boost its video game business.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18507186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/facebook-meta-name-change-mark-zuckerberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18507186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/facebook-meta-name-change-mark-zuckerberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Zuckerberg introduces Meta (Facebook)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11638407\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cosplayers-from-Blizzards-World-of-Warcraft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11638407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cosplayers-from-Blizzards-World-of-Warcraft.jpg\" alt=\"cosplayers from Blizzard&#039;s World of Warcraft\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">cosplayers from Blizzard\u2019s World of Warcraft, part of Microsoft\u2019s Activision Blizzard acquisition ( Sean Gallup \/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But Microsoft isn\u2019t only focused on gaming, on a call discussing the acquisition on Tuesday the term \u201cmetaverse\u201d was mentioned seven times by Microsoft executives. The company\u2019s clear ambition in the digital space resulted in Facebook (now Meta) suffering a 4 percent drop in share price.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>WSJ<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been the loudest evangelist of the metaverse over the past few months, Microsoft has quietly been embracing its own version of the concept for years now. The company was discussing the metaverse with investors as far back as mid-2017\u2014four years before Mr. Zuckerberg began using the term with gusto in his company\u2019s calls, according to a transcript search through S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever shape the metaverse takes, it is clear that the $2.3 trillion titan once best known for Windows, spreadsheets and \u201cClippy,\u201d the anthropomorphic paper clip office assistant, will be a big player\u2014perhaps even bigger than the company that has made the concept its namesake.<\/p>\n<p>Meta is still a social-media advertising business whose metaverse ambitions remain years away. The company plans to break out the financial results from its Facebook Reality Labs starting this year, but analysts project the Oculus business that represents most of that will account for just 1% of the company\u2019s total revenue over the next three years, according to Visible Alpha.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>WSJ<\/em> notes that early versions of the metaverse have existed for some time, large online communities of gamers interacting in games such as&nbsp;<em>Roblox, Fortnite,&nbsp;<\/em>and even Microsoft\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Minecraft<\/em> could all technically be considered the metaverse. A digital realm where people explore virtual worlds, socialize, and buy things with virtual currency.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s Activision Blizzard purchase gives the company access to almost 400 million monthly active players, many of whom are prime candidates for the transition into a new type of internet, an even more immersive metaverse that could allow the software giant to go head-to-head with Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/microsoft-shows-meta-wont-own-the-verse-11642680004\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i><i>or email him at&nbsp;<\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">lnolan@breitbart.com<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal\u00a0states in a recent article that Microsoft\u2019s latest moves in the gaming and online community space show that while Facebook is attempting to shape the future of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}