In this week’s episode of The MadTech Podcast, ThoughtLDR Founder and CEO Tamara Sword joins ExchangeWire’s Anne-Marie Sheedy and Rachel Smith to discuss the role of virtual reality in the metaverse, the implementation of EU DMA and TikTok’s move to gaming.

VR isn’t essential to the metaverse, tech CEO argues

Is VR central to the metaverse or do you agree with Narula’s assessment?

Virtual reality (VR) is not essential to the development and adoption of the metaverse, and the Meta’s focus on hardware is detrimental to its efforts to break into the virtual world. That’s according to Herman Narula, CEO of metaverse company Improbable, who describes the VR equipment Meta and others are building as “expensive” and “tangential to the core value proposition of…