The emergence of the much-ballyhooed “metaverse” has provoked a lot of enthusiasm, as well as cynicism. For its most evangelical and powerful promoters at Meta (previously known as Facebook) and Microsoft, our next universal computer interface will add an extra dimension to reality, allowing users to live, work and play in alternative virtual worlds.
To its detractors, the metaverse is a manipulative attempt by corporate giants to rebrand their underwhelming virtual-reality technology, colonise virgin tracts of the internet and outrun the regulators.
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