What companies use metaverses for and why the big tech companies are so interested

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

- 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