Wired

What Is the Metaverse, Exactly?

To hear tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or Satya Nadella talk about it, the metaverse is the future of the internet. Or it's a video game. Or maybe it's a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom?
Wired

The Internet Is Ruined. The Metaverse Can Still Be Saved

The future of the metaverse looks shakier than anyone can imagine. Tech companies that have bought into the concept fully—like Facebook-turned-Meta and Disney—are facing the realities of building out ...
Forbes

Why Every Business Should Have A Metaverse Strategy

Earlier this year, the management consultants McKinsey produced a report that said that the metaverse has the potential to generate up to $5 trillion in value by 2030 and is simply too big for ...
VentureBeat

How Equinix wants the internet to be ready for the metaverse

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Equinix is one of the companies that provide the backbone of the internet ...
Wall Street Journal

Building the Metaverse and the Future of the Internet

Building the Metaverse and the Future of the Internet For decades, a virtual reality version of the internet has been a staple of science fiction. The metaverse is the latest iteration and it has the ...
Forbes

The Metaverse Could Be Better Than The Best Internet Game—Or Simply A Security Pipe Dream

Karim Nurani is an entrepreneur, investor, CSO of Linqto, cofounder of the Global Investor Conference & host of the Global Investor Podcast. The term metaverse was first coined in the 1992 novel Snow ...
Digiday

WTF is the Metaverse?

The successor to the internet might be rooted in the gaming industry. The term “Metaverse” was coined by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel “Snow Crash.” In “Snow Crash,” the ...

6 of the Best Metaverse ETFs to Buy in 2023

The metaverse sits at the intersection of numerous different technologies and objectives. For the former, developments in VR, ...
Technical

I’m a Black woman and the metaverse scares me. Here’s how to make the next iteration of the internet inclusive

Marginalized people often suffer the most harm from unintended consequences of new technologies. For example, the algorithms that automatically make decisions about who gets to see what content or how ...
Business Wire

Lamina1 Presents Inaugural “Open Metaverse Conference” Connecting the Worlds of Blockchain and the Metaverse for a Next-Gen Internet

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lamina1, a Layer 1 blockchain optimized for the Open Metaverse, today announced its role as founding sponsor of the Open Metaverse Conference, a first-of-its-kind ...
VentureBeat

Improved optics could help the metaverse become as big as the internet

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now With the metaverse expected to reach $800 ...