Huge numbers get thrown around when we’re talking about the metaverse. For example, Bloomberg estimates that the global metaverse market opportunity could approach $800 billion as early as next year.

There’s been a lot of buzz about the metaverse, along with related innovations like cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and Web3. Business leaders are trying to make sense of it all — wondering ...

(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) The so-called metaverse conjures images of gamers with headsets, friends hanging out in a virtual world, ...

The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. But ...

Nattie’s metaverse romance began with anonymous texting. At first “C” would admit only to living in a nearby town. Nattie eventually learned “Clem” was a man with a solitary office job like hers. For ...

The metaverse is primed to transform the way we interact and conduct business, with the potential to impact every facet of the enterprise and the consumer experience. But this will not come without ...

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Editor’s Note: Jane Thomason is a Dubai-based author on frontier technologies and social transformation, whose books include “Applied Ethics in a Digital World.” She is an editorial board member for ...

The successor to the internet might be rooted in the gaming industry. The term “Metaverse” was coined by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel “Snow Crash.” In “Snow Crash,” the ...

Neil Stephenson introduced the metaverse as a concept in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, where he depicted it as a digital realm where users, represented by avatars, engage in a simulated reality.

Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly scaled back the metaverse initiative at Meta, with a former employee claiming the company’s ...