The metaverse isn’t just a place you visit, it can change your definition of self
I’ve been thinking about applications of the metaverse and how those intersect with storytelling. One of the interesting characteristics of…
Category: Disney
Disney Patents Virtual World Simulator
On January 6, 2022, Disney announced that it received a patent for what they called a Virtual World Simulator. Commentators on Twitter, Facebook, and blogs all began outputting opinions, most of them along the line of
“Is this Disney entering the metaverse?”
and
“Can Disney patent existing technology?”
Haters gonna hate.
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Matthew Wren on LinkedIn dug up the actual patent.
Both of us were reading it with an eye to “What makes this different or deserving of a patent?” To date, most commentators have their own ideas and this blog is represents my hypothesis.