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Users (wearing a $US300 Oculus headset) choose a legless cartoon avatar and then sit at a virtual conference room having virtual meetings with co-workers.

It's a bit like Zoom, but with virtual reality.

In August, Mr Zuckerberg launched a new virtual reality (VR) app, Horizon Workrooms, that was billed as part of his realisation of the metaverse. A convergence of gaming, social, and commerce Now internet technology has advanced to the point where we can (maybe) build the metaverse for real. William Gibson introduced the concept of a virtual collective 'cyberspace' in the 1984 novel Neuromancer, and Neal Stephenson coined the term itself in the 1992 novel Snow Crash.Īs it happens, both these novels are dystopias where people take refuge in virtual universes to escape crumbling societies.

Heady stuff! But beyond the hype, the idea of the metaverse is an old one. Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella has said his company is working on building something called the 'enterprise metaverse' where 'the digital and physical worlds converge'.ĭavid Baszucki, the founder of the $US41 billion gaming platform Roblox, recently wrote: 'The metaverse is arguably as big a shift in online communication as the telephone or the internet.'

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