The DeanBeat: Great moments at our metaverse event

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Thank you all for coming to our second annual GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming Summit and our GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 online event this week. I hope you review the opening speech that I made about the choices we face — the blue shirt or the red shirt — about the metaverse. I also wrote a piece on how I believe gaming will lead us to the metaverse.

We had planned for 3,500 registrants for the three-day event, and we got more than 5,800. Woohoo! Across three days, we had 49 sessions with 130 speakers. And 50% of them were from diverse origins. I look forward to getting started recruiting speakers for our GamesBeat Summit 2022 hybrid event in Los Angeles/online on April 26-28.

You can offer your own feedback for the event here. I thought I would spend this column pointing you to some fun moments at our event. Our VentureBeat team did a special issue on the metaverse, with pieces such as Kyle Wiggers’ story on the environmental impact of the metaverse.

As for some of the event highlights, here goes.

Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.

Jason Rubin, head of content at Meta, kicked of the metaverse discussions on day one with a reinforcing comment that gaming will lead the way in the metaverse. He noted that the game engine will be critical to building the metaverse, and he said that those who are most familiar with using it are game developers. Facebook Gaming’s Rick Kelley pointed out how gaming is coming down to earth after Apple’s privacy changes and the post-pandemic behaviors slipped a little in 2021.

Kim Libreri, the fast-talking found of knowledge and chief technology officer at Epic Games, got a lot of kudos from the whole GamesBeat writing team. He told us that