EXPLAINER: What is the metaverse and how will it work?

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The term “metaverse” is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry’s imagination — so much so that one of the best-known internet platforms is rebranding to signal its embrace of the futuristic idea.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Thursday announcement that he’s changing his company’s name to Meta Platforms Inc., or Meta for short, might be the biggest thing to happen to the metaverse since science fiction writer Neal Stephenson coined the term for his 1992 novel “Snow Crash.”

But Zuckerberg and his team are hardly the only tech visionaries with ideas on how the metaverse, which will employ a mix of virtual reality and other technologies, should take shape. And some who’ve been thinking about it for a while have concerns about a new world tied to a social media giant that could get access to even more personal data and is accused of failing to stop the proliferation of dangerous misinformation and other online harms that exacerbate real-world problems.

WHAT IS THE METAVERSE?

Think of it as the internet brought to life, or at least rendered in 3D. Zuckerberg has described it as a “virtual environment” you can go inside of — instead of just looking at on a screen. Essentially, it’s a world of endless, interconnected virtual communities where people can meet, work and play, using virtual reality headsets, augmented reality glasses, smartphone apps or other devices.

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[lagomorph777]

1. It's the MAGAverse and it will radicalize you into a Trumpie zombie.

Same as the old version.

[Scrivener7]

2. It's the Q rabbit hole.

Also, photos of the grandkids and restaurant meals.

[lagomorph777]

3. The grandkid photos are the candy to lure you into the car

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Isn't it OASIS, stolen from "Ready, Player One"?

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6. dang you hit "post" first

[unblock]

5. so... ready player one?

[TheRealNorth]

7. Sounds like he just trying the justify fake shit on his platform

Everything is possible in the metaverse, even if people cannot distinguish what is real from what is fake.

[RainCaster]

8. It's dead

First, FB's name is so toxic that it needed to be changed.

Then, it will need to be changed again to distract from the fact that they are still lying assholes pushing propoganda for any paying government.

So the first name you choose is Meta, the Hebrew feminine term for death.

Then, after a few weeks, you change the name to some unpronouncable word that means SHIT in every language. Now investors can happily forget that Zuck is such a doosh and feel secure in their overpriced stock purchase.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Wake me when the superduperverse arrives.

[Javaman]

10. I doubt many people really care.

this is a story in search of an audience.

I have a feeling many people will be finally dropping facebook.

[Coventina]

11. Hard pass.

Thanks anyway.

[radius777]

12. The tech oligarchs' 'vision' is a utopia turned dystopia,

ie more 'Matrix' than metaverse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film[5][6] written and directed by the Wachowskis.[a] It is the first installment in The Matrix film series. Starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. It depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality, the Matrix, which intelligent machines have created to distract humans while using their bodies as an energy source.[7] When computer programmer Thomas Anderson, under the hacker alias "Neo", uncovers the truth, he "is drawn into a rebellion against the machines"[7] along with other people who have been freed from the Matrix.