The LEGO Group, known for its building blocks, and Epic Games, known for its Fortnite game, have announced that they will collaborate.
The goal is to create a kid-friendly metaverse. It would be a virtual space integrating the essential games and other creative activities, but also clearly emphasizing the confidentiality, well-being and safety of children in particular. These children and their parents will also have to have the means to allow them to adjust many parameters themselves, according to the two companies.
The metaverse is the term increasingly used to designate a virtual world with various activities. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, for example, intends to create one around its various social platforms, but a game like Fortnite has been a multifunctional space in practice for quite a long time. What once began as a shooting game has since become a place where you can go to concerts and hang out with friends. LEGO has previously also launched a kind of virtual social network, in which it is possible to share small construction projects and chat via emojis. The fact that the two firms now want to collaborate on a new project, therefore, has nothing far-fetched. No launch date has yet been announced.
The goal is to create a kid-friendly metaverse. It would be a virtual space integrating the essential games and other creative activities, but also clearly emphasizing the confidentiality, well-being and safety of children in particular. These children and their parents will also have to have the means allowing them to adjust many parameters themselves, according to the two companies. The metaverse is the term increasingly used to designate a virtual world for various activities. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, for example, intends to create one around its various social platforms, but a game like Fortnite has been a multifunctional space in practice for quite a long time. What once began as a shooting game has since become a place where you can go to concerts and hang out with friends. LEGO has previously also launched a kind of virtual social network, in which it is possible to share small construction projects and chat via emojis. The fact that the two firms now want to collaborate on a new project, therefore, has nothing far-fetched. No launch date has yet been announced.
