Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s chief gaming officer and head of Xbox, leveled some criticism at the metaverse idea and how it’s being executed. Spencer remarked that for him, the current metaverse is a “badly built video game”, but also that the sector was still in its infancy and will surely evolve.

Phil Spencer criticizes the current metaverse

While the still unclear concept of “the metaverse” has been seized upon by a number of companies that want to seize first-mover advantage in an industry, other prominent personalities have criticized the current industry. Phil Spencer, head of Xbox at Microsoft, criticized the current metaverse technology during the WSJ Live Convention, noting that it wasn’t polished yet.

On today’s metaverse, Spencer stated:

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