{"id":2460,"date":"2026-03-05T01:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/epic-and-google-have-signed-a-special-deal-for-a-new-class-of-metaverse-apps\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:49:16","slug":"epic-and-google-have-signed-a-special-deal-for-a-new-class-of-metaverse-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/epic-and-google-have-signed-a-special-deal-for-a-new-class-of-metaverse-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic and Google have signed a special deal for a new class of \u2018metaverse\u2019 apps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tEpic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. | Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

Epic Games and Google are burying the hatchet<\/a>, but documents released today reveal that they aren’t only aligned on how Google is shaking things up for app stores. The two companies have also agreed to terms about a new class of apps that they’re calling \u00ab\u00a0metaverse browsers,\u00a0\u00bb according to a heavily redacted section of a revised binding term sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the term \u00ab\u00a0metaverse\u00a0\u00bb has largely fallen out of favor – Mark Zuckerberg, for example, is now much more interested in AI<\/a> – Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has been talking for years about the metaverse<\/a> and how it might work in the future<\/a>. (Depending on how you define the concept, Epic’s Fortnite<\/em> is alrea \u2026<\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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