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    FUN & GAMERS

    Dec 17, 2021 4 minutes

    Master of the Metaverse

    DAVID BASZUCKI — CEO, ROBLOX

    IMAGINE A WORLD IN which you can be anyone you want—a superhero, a rock star, a science fiction monster or an angel. You can play games or meet up with friends. You can go anywhere in this world in an instant. You can live your fantasies. At least until your mother yells to turn off the computer and come to dinner.

    That’s the metaverse—a virtual reality online world defined, in part, by a computer engineer named David Baszucki and the company he started, Roblox Corp. Baszucki didn’t invent the metaverse (the word was coined by novelist Neal Stephenson in 1992), but Roblox says it attracts 47 million active users

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