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  >> 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 lexicon before they are truly coherent. Jargon appears out of nowhere, underexplained and overused: the...

“Some people refer to what we’re building as the Metaverse,” David Baszucki, CEO of gaming company the Roblox Corporation, told the crowd that had assembled virtually to hear the company’s pitch to investors in February of this year. “We’re shepherds of the Metaverse.” When Roblox went public a month later, it quickly found itself valued at $45 billion. That’s more than gaming giant EA, as well as the might of Ubisoft, Take Two and Square-Enix combined. Clearly, there’s a significant amount of faith in Roblox’s promises. But can Roblox actually build a Metaverse? The term ...

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