{"id":5543,"date":"2022-04-28T17:36:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T15:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/snapchats-evan-spiegel-dismisses-facebooks-metaverse-as-hypothetical\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T17:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T15:36:04","slug":"snapchats-evan-spiegel-dismisses-facebooks-metaverse-as-hypothetical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/snapchats-evan-spiegel-dismisses-facebooks-metaverse-as-hypothetical\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat\u2019s Evan Spiegel dismisses Facebook\u2019s metaverse as \u2018hypothetical\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founder says his company is committed to augmenting the real world rather than replacing it<\/p>\n<p>The Snapchat founder, Evan Spiegel, has dismissed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/28\/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-meta-metaverse\">Facebook\u2019s \u201cmetaverse\u201d<\/a> ambitions as \u201cambiguous and hypothetical\u201d as he announced a raft of new augmented reality features coming to phones and Snap\u2019s experimental AR Spectacles over the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of the Snap Partner Summit, the company\u2019s flagship annual event, Spiegel argued Snapchat was uniquely placed to guide the next decade of technology thanks to the company\u2019s vast array of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/feb\/11\/app-black-britons-history-trafalgar-square-tukwini-mandela\">augmented reality services<\/a>, such as the \u201clenses\u201d that are used by millions of people every day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/28\/snapchat-evan-spiegel-dismisses-facebook-metaverse-hypothetical\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c3b3d355acbac6cfaac652110fb02806f3ac2f43\/0_0_5334_3201\/master\/5334.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8bb5cb9ac430342140d51b95cc3fa5c0\" title=\"Snapchat\u2019s Evan Spiegel dismisses Facebook\u2019s metaverse as \u2018hypothetical\u2019\" \/>Founder says his company is committed to augmenting the real world rather than replacing it<br \/>\nThe Snapchat founder, Evan Spiegel, has dismissed Facebook\u2019s \u201cmetaverse\u201d ambitions as \u201cambiguous and hypothetical\u201d as he announced a raft of new augmented reality features coming to phones and Snap\u2019s experimental AR Spectacles over the next year.<br \/>\nSpeaking ahead of the Snap Partner Summit, the company\u2019s flagship annual event, Spiegel argued Snapchat was uniquely placed to guide the next decade of technology thanks to the company\u2019s vast array of augmented reality services, such as the \u201clenses\u201d that are used by millions of people every day. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder says his company is committed to augmenting the real world rather than replacing it The Snapchat founder, Evan Spiegel, has dismissed Facebook\u2019s \u201cmetaverse\u201d ambitions as \u201cambiguous and hypothetical\u201d as he announced a raft of new augmented reality features coming to phones and Snap\u2019s experimental AR Spectacles over the next year. Speaking ahead of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/snapchats-evan-spiegel-dismisses-facebooks-metaverse-as-hypothetical\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snapchat\u2019s Evan Spiegel dismisses Facebook\u2019s metaverse as \u2018hypothetical\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}