Episode 196 — Forecasting the Metaverse

Ben and James discuss Facebook and Microsoft’s metaverse announcements, and how the future might play out.

Links

• Ben Thompson: Meta — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2021/meta)

• Ben Thompson: An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2021/an-interview-with-mark-zu…)

• Ben Thompson: AR vs. VR — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/ces-2016)

• Ben Thompson: Apps, People, and Jobs to be Done — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2013/apps-people-jobs-to-be-done)

• Ben Thompson: Metaverses — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2021/metaverses)

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson (twitter.com/benthompson), Stratechery (stratechery.com)

• James Allworth, @jamesallworth (twitter.com/jamesallworth), Harvard Business Review (hbr.org/search?term=James+Allworth&sort=po…)

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