Cryptoplanetry

  WHAT IS A METAVERSE? The Metaverse is a current slang majorly in the worlds of tech, business, and finance, and like all buzzwords , its definition is rarely defined , and shaped by the ambitions of the people using it. Neal Stephenson originally discovered the phrase in his 1992 novel  Snow Crash  to describe a virtual world in wide use in his imagined future, a 21st-century dystopia. In  “ the novel” , the metaverse is a virtual-reality world represented as a planet-encircling market where virtual real estate can be bought and sold and where VR goggle-wearing users inhabit 3D avatars whose form they have the freedom to choose. These three elements — a VR interface, digital ownership, and avatars — Current theories of the metaverse still include them prominently. But none of them is essential to the concept . In its broadest sense, the metaverse is a graphically rich virtual arena with a degree of realism in which people can work, play, shop, socialize —...