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What is the Metaverse?
You cannot escape talking about the metaverse these days
What is the Metaverse?
You cannot escape talking about the metaverse these days. There is a real buzz about it in the tech world as well as in the financial and business worlds. Sometimes the metaverse is known as Web 3.0 and a lot of people believe that it represents the future for us. But what is the metaverse?
The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, certainly believes that the metaverse is the future. In October 2021, he rebranded the Facebook platform as “Meta”. Some people believe that Zuckerberg is the founder of the metaverse and that all the hype has come from him. This is not the case.
The Metaverse is Not New
In 1992, the author Neal Stephenson wrote a book called “Snow Crash”. This book is seen by many as the start of the metaverse craze. Others will tell you that “the Matrix” was the beginning of the metaverse with the movies and the original book “Neuromancer” by William Gibson.
The metaverse is depicted as a 3D virtual world in Snow Crash. People entered the metaverse using personal terminals or through the use of virtual reality (VR) goggles. It is said that this inspired the creation of companies such as Oculus Quest and others that create VR headsets. Whether this is true or not doesn’t matter.
