To hear tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or Satya Nadella talk about it, the metaverse is the future of the internet. Or it's a video game. Or maybe it's a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom?

Huge numbers get thrown around when we’re talking about the metaverse. For example, Bloomberg estimates that the global metaverse market opportunity could approach $800 billion as early as next year.

Merriam Webster defines the metaverse as “a persistent virtual environment that allows access to and interoperability of multiple individual virtual realities.” The term “metaverse” originates from ...

The metaverse’s association with other struggling “Web3” technologies, namely blockchain, NFTs, and crypto — considered by some to be essential to the future decentralized metaverse — hasn’t exactly ...

The metaverse’s most significant potential relates to industrial sectors that serve as the backbone of economies. The industrial metaverse heralds commercial transformations with the industrial ...

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The metaverse concept has faced a lot of skepticism, but industrial firms appear keen to deploy technologies, such as digital twins and virtual reality devices, that serve as the precursors to more ...

Marketers should pay particular attention to progression of the metaverse as it's set to change the way society does business and functions. Although the infrastructure of the metaverse is still being ...

The successor to the internet might be rooted in the gaming industry. The term “Metaverse” was coined by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel “Snow Crash.” In “Snow Crash,” the ...

CEO Mark Zuckerberg's massive bet on the metaverse initially seemed like a terrible idea. Only a year after he announced the company's plan to change its name from Facebook to Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: ...

Panelists at the GEOINT 2023 symposium discuss the use of metaverse technologies for government applications. Credit: USGIF ST. LOUIS — Space launch operations at Cape Canaveral, the nation’s busiest ...

This post was co-authored by Asia Eaton, Ph.D., and Sophie Maddocks, M.A. After Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be changing its name to “Meta” in 2021, the hype surrounding the metaverse ...