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Epic detail plans for Unreal Engine 6 and share vision of a metaverse spanning "Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite"
- Epic are working on Unreal Engine 6 as a "gigantic", interoperable metaverse platform that combines Unreal Engine with Fortnite's Unreal Editor.
- The project follows Unreal Fest conference in Seattle and will take several years to arrive.
- Epic will soon open the Fab digital assets marketplace, which will host assets that can work even in non-Unreal-Engine games, such as Minecraft and Roblox.
- According to CEO Tim Sweeney, "having seamless movement of content from place to place is going to be one of the critical things that makes the metaverse work without duplication."
- Epic's current testcase for interoperable content is the collaborative entertainment universe they are creating for Disney.
- The company has had no discussions yet with other publishers beyond Disney about interoperability.
- Sweeney believes that companies should set up a revenue sharing scheme so that all can prosper from 'the same' asset being sold for use in several games.
- Epic's overall aim is to create a smooth and seamlessly enterprise Metaverse that will enable developers to sell stuff that can be transferred to games that run on Unreal Engine or not.
- Epic is soon to release the Fab digital assets marketplace, which will allow assets this irrespective of what type of game they are designed to work on.
- The company has yet to discuss new partners regarding interoperability, but Saxs Persson has said there is no reason why they couldn't have a federated way to flow between Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite.
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