[Semaphor]

> “the metaverse”

I’m probably in some kind of bubble, but is that hyped? I mainly hear about it on HN, maybe a bunch of joking off-hand comments on Reddit. No one else seem to care about it at all. So, my bubble in Germany, or is it actually a thing in the USA?

[boucher]

One of the largest companies in the world has recently renamed itself Meta (verse is strongly implied), so on some level it must have a decent amount of hype.

[slightwinder]

Metaverse is something that is happening for a long time now. The Zuckerberg-Metaverse is just the latest step in this development that gave the fire new fuel. Maybe because of this slow burning hype the general impression of it is rather low.

[detaro]

Even fairly mainstream news already went on about how the Microsoft acquisition of Activision is all about Microsoft getting ready for metaverse.

[k__]

I gave up on German tech news 5 years ago.

They're always behind.

[Ostrogodsky]

As someone whose German is rusty and is try to not lose it, what kind of German media you think is worth the trouble?, in other words, publications where you will find insights that are not simply a repetition/regurgitation of what it is said in English.

[Semaphor]

I’d say that depends on what kind of information you want? For tech it’s hard. While I don’t like them, heise [0] has decent news. For general news, Spiegel [1] or FAZ [2] are some big ones, getting scoops once in a while that get rehashed by the international media.

[0]: https://heise.de

[1]: https://spiegel.de/

[2]: https://www.faz.net/