What is the metaverse – and what do I need to know?
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Tech observers have been talking for some time about the ‘metaverse’. The online and offline worlds have already begun to merge in many ways, with education, services and social life now available online.
The metaverse takes this to the next level, using radical new technologies, to make livable, virtual worlds.
But what actually is the metaverse? What does it mean for the future of tech and the internet? And how will it affect the younger generation who may experience it, eventually, as commonplace?
What is the metaverse?
The name ‘metaverse’ isn’t actually that new: it first appeared in a dystopian 1992 novel, Snow Crash, by the sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson.
It’s a term for a combination of virtual reality with other technologies that will allow us to have a deeper experience of the online world. The metaverse is a 3D environment in which we can interact, rather than seeing the internet simply on a screen.
Using virtual reality headsets or augmented reality glasses – at leas...
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