Why Zuck's "Metaverse" is way too confusing!
You might have noticed that all of a sudden, "Facebook" has changed its name to "Meta", which indicates "Metaverse". Facebook says, "The metaverse is the next evolution of social connection." Their company’s vision is to help bring the metaverse to life, so they are changing their company's name to reflect their commitment to this future. The word that best describes it is that it is going to be a second world, not real but a 3-dimensional virtual world. You might have come across augmented reality, and virtual reality, but Metaverse is going to take this to the next level. As you might have already guessed, "Metaverse" is just a combination of the two words "Meta" and "Universe", whose origin is from a science fiction novel (namely " Snow Crash ") from 1992. And it has also become a buzzword , increasing its popularity after Facebook's initiative though it already existed earlier. With all these ...