The term metaverse is being used more and more by tech companies as they describe their plans for the future. But what exactly is the metaverse? And how long will it be before the real world and the virtual one, collide?
First things first, what is the metaverse? First coined by author Neal Stephenson in his 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash, the term itself doesn’t refer to a specific virtual space or technology, but rather a broad and often uncertain shift in how we interact with technology.
