The metaverse is dead, long live the metaverse.
Microsoft is reportedly looking to take on Apple’s Vision Pro headset with new hardware it would develop in partnership with Samsung. This would mean that five of the ten most valuable companies by market capitalization — Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia — are currently developing new metaverse gear.
The Microsoft news comes from a local outlet in South Korea, The Elec. According to the report, Microsoft plans to order hundreds of thousands of OLED panels from Samsung for a device to be mass produced in 2026.
That’s a ways off and, according to The Verge, the device will be a headset meant for spatial computing (as opposed to virtual reality). The Verge also indicated that it was specifically not meant for the metaverse — but, any display device, including a computer monitor, can interface with “the metaverse,” spatial computing devices just offer a different level of immersion.
