Amid the rise of immersive environments and virtual reality across various platforms and companies, Candle Media co-founder and CEO Kevin Mayer called the idea of ​​Mark Zuckerberg owning the Metaverse “absurd.”

“You look at each of these universes, so to speak, and the metaverse gains all the interoperability and you can carry stuff across each of them. I think that’s what I would call the Metaverse,” Mayer said on TheWrap’s “Tech vs Media” podcast with host Richard Wolpert. “We are not there yet. That doesn’t exist yet, but I think we should expect it to happen in the not too distant future. But Zuckerberg owning the Metaverse and all that seems a bit absurd.”

For Mayer, who identifies video games as the first manifestation of the Metaverse, video games and blockchain are…