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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Ryan Faughnder

HISTORICAL FACTS: Disney metaverse begins to take shape - Caught on Camera

LOS ANGELES — Walt Disney Co. has brought its characters to life in its theme parks and expanded its franchises through streaming services.

Now it’s hoping to keep up with the times again by preparing for the internet’s next evolutionary leap.

The Burbank entertainment giant has begun developing a strategy for its approach to a future version of the internet that blends the physical with the digital and the virtual, dubbed by futurists, tech executives and investors as the metaverse, or Web3.

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