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In recent years, you’ve likely heard about the so-called “metaverse,” along with a host of inaccurate descriptors like “it’ll be the next Internet” or “it will revolutionize eCommerce.” In truth, the ...

What do Microsoft, Epic Games, Adobe, Nvidia, and Ikea all have in common? According to nonprofit standards organization the Khronos Group, it's the metaverse. Despite there being no clear definition ...

A couple months ago, friends and business contacts started asking me for a crash course on my professional research studying virtual environments. Their interest reflects an explosion—which you’ve ...

The metaverse isn’t virtual reality, experts say, it’s more about having an identity that moves between virtual and physical worlds. Credit: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

The metaverse has evolved from a single futuristic concept into a broad ecosystem of technologies that power virtual worlds ...

This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. Every so often, a new buzzword seems to come out of nowhere and suddenly feel ubiquitous. Right now, that word is “metaverse,” which means ...

The metaverse as we know it right now likely won’t be the same thing people experience in five years. The term was first coined in 1992 by author Neal Stephenson as a digital world that exists ...

The metaverse is a term for the new virtual world that’s emerging as technology advances. It’s a concept that dates back to 1992, when a dystopian book by Neal Stephenson called “Snow Crash” was ...

The 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash introduced the word “metaverse” — a term now bandied about in technology circles and laden with high hopes of redefining the Internet. This space is still forming, ...