Coined in 1992 by science fiction author Neal Stephenson, the relatively obscure term exploded in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly after Facebook rebranded as Meta in October 2021 ...

The Metaverse has become firmly cemented into public consciousness – it was ranked second in the Oxford English Dictionary’s 2022 Word of The Year. But what actually is it? Does it even exist yet? And ...

The average time for government to wake up to threats has shrunk dramatically. Government must have taken nigh on a generation to ascertain that digital connectivity was going to upend society and it ...

The metaverse will become a reality, but we still don't know what people actually want, Vitalik Buterin says Existing corporate attempts to create metaverse therefore won't succeed, he adds Get Matt ...

The term “metaverse” is overused, and we all feel it. It’s buzzy, pigeonholing, and doesn’t encompass how the underlying technologies could change everything, from meeting to playing, working to ...

The consumer metaverse, exemplified by immersive games, new shopping experiences and the explosion of VR goggles, is the more visible, hyped side of the metaverse. But there may be far more money to ...

Digital land purchased in an online environment. Land is the common metaverse property; however, any digital asset that is purchased in an online game or virtual world may be called a metaverse ...

On Sept. 30, Charles Onstott and I held a capture meeting at CALIBRE Systems. It wasn’t like our other capture meetings because we held it in the metaverse. CALIBRE Chief Technology Officer Charles ...

Whether the future metaverse will be open and interoperable—and whether it will be primarily built with blockchain technology—remains to be seen. That’s why an array of crypto builders and firms ...

Could the average person define the metaverse? Tim Cook doesn’t think so. Could the average person define the metaverse? Tim Cook doesn’t think so. is a reporter with five years of experience covering ...