A New, Virtual World to Come

gamespot.com:

Big change takes time to truly unfold, especially in the world of gaming. Sure, games evolve and get better, but that’s improvement--not an industry shift. Right now, the gaming and tech landscapes are transforming in a big way.

Innovations like the metaverse are on the rise. Multiplayer and MMO gaming from anywhere with low lag is now possible. The ability to play an AAA video game on your phone, and to seamlessly switch between mobile, console, PC by streaming the game is becoming the new normal.

Essentially, gamers today can play games, on any device, at any place they happen to be. That’s a reality right now--and that big leap forward in mobile gaming is largely thanks to 5G making the experience possible.

This new gaming era doesn’t just happen overnight. It requires a lot of different companies to create the infrastructure that make it work. That’s what the gaming and tech sectors have been doing for the past decade, and networks like 5G from AT&T* and other mobile providers are the basic building blocks for the future of gaming.

You’re already living with the early version of the latest sea change, but there’s more work to be done. Right now, companies like AT&T, Google, and NVIDIA, are iterating toward our new reality.

But the big, landscape-altering changes are starting to take shape. The seeds of this were planted a decade or more ago--and they’re finally emerging as something amazing. For a while, tech--including virtual reality, augmented reality, motion control and cloud gaming--have had their own niche spaces. Today, 5G provides the key to unlocking all their potential.

When you combine those technologies with a 5G connection from AT&T, it really changes everything. Before 5G, there was simply too much