the.com/metaverse
A trillion-dollar attempt to make spreadsheets exciting by attending them with legs.
means A persistent, shared 3D virtual world where people work, play, and socialize through digital avatars.
from Coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, where avatars roamed a virtual city; meta plus universe, meaning a world beyond ours.
Legs problemEarly VR avatars were legless until 2022 retrofits.
RebrandFacebook became Meta in 2021 chasing it.
Real estateVirtual land sold for millions, then crashed.