{"id":128,"date":"2026-03-04T21:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=128"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:49:16","slug":"epic-and-google-have-signed-a-special-deal-for-a-new-class-of-metaverse-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Epic and Google have signed a special deal for a new class of \u2018metaverse\u2019 apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo illustration of Tim Sweeney.\" data-caption=\"Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. | Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/STK186_TIM_SWEENEY_CVIRGINIA_B.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tEpic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. | Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Epic Games and Google are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/889252\/google-app-store-fee-reduction-20-percent-epic-v-google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">burying the hatchet<\/a>, but documents released today reveal that they aren&#8217;t only aligned on how Google is shaking things up for app stores. The two companies have also agreed to terms about a new class of apps that they&#8217;re calling &#8220;metaverse browsers,&#8221; according to a heavily redacted section of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/27753360-20260304-dkt-1179-2-ex-a-term-sheet-public-redacted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a revised binding term sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">While the term &#8220;metaverse&#8221; has largely fallen out of favor &#8211; Mark Zuckerberg, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/869882\/mark-zuckerberg-meta-earnings-q4-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is now much more interested in AI<\/a> &#8211; Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has been talking for years about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/3\/23\/23652928\/tim-sweeney-interview-epic-games-fortnite-metaverse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the metaverse<\/a> and how it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/5\/24262376\/epic-unreal-engine-6-fortnite-metaverse-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">might work in the future<\/a>. (Depending on how you define the concept, Epic&#8217;s <em>Fortnite<\/em> is alrea \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/889526\/epic-games-google-deal-metaverse-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. | Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images Epic Games and Google are burying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}