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The metaverse is a network of always-on virtual environments in which many people can interact with one another and digital objects while operating virtual representations – or avatars – of themselves. Think of a combination of immersive virtual reality, a massively multiplayer online role-...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thrust the metaverse unto the wider world in October. But some developers have been working in virtual spaces for years, and say the vision proposed by Zuckerberg is both old-hat and years away.

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The metaverse is science fiction, but a lot of people in Silicon Valley are working to make this interconnected virtual reality a, well, reality.

  >> John Herrman and Kellen Browning, The New York Times  Published: 12 Jul 2021 08:44 AM BdST Updated: 12 Jul 2021 08:44 AM BdST Get ready for “the metaverse” — coined by the writer Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel, “Snow Crash,” then reimagined as the Oasis in the Ernest Cline novel “Ready Player One” — which refers to a fully realised digital world that exists beyond the analogue one in which we live. The New York Times The biggest ideas in tech often lurch into the lex...