The Metaverse Hype Cycle

- In the first six months of 2022, the word metaverse appeared in regulatory filings more than 1,100 times. The previous year saw 260 mentions. The preceding two decades? Fewer than a dozen in total.- The metaverse, a 30-year-old term but nearly century-old idea, is forming around us. Every few decades, a platform shift occurs—such as that from mai... See more

The very premise of the Metaverse presumes that the “next” platform shifts from hardware-based operating systems and hardware-centric experiences to persistent and ubiquitous virtual simulations.

It’s important to understand that Facebook’s “Meta” is just one part of “the metaverse”, with countless other projects – such as Decentraland and HyperVerse, as well as existing gaming platforms like Fortnite – all coming under a broad, hard-to-define umbrella concept known as “Web3”. Wired ’s Eric Ravenscraft sums it up well: “Talking about what ‘... See more

Thus my definition: the Metaverse is the set of experiences that are completely online, and thus defined by their malleability and scalability, which is to say that the Metaverse is already here. Sure, today’s experience is largely denominated by text and 2D, but video is already a major medium, first in the form of entertainment and now a vital to... See more

"The emergence of the metaverse as a computer-generated scaled shared space means that there will be a whole new (virtual) world where we can express ourselves and potentially introduce a different version of who we are all while playing together, learning together, creating together and more. Essentially, we think of the metaverse as the next glob... See more