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After betting heavily on the metaverse—and spending many billions building it—Meta recently pivoted hard.

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The office real estate investment trust recorded what it claimed was the first formally recorded transfer of AR property rights.

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Neil Stephenson introduced the metaverse as a concept in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, where he depicted it as a digital realm where users, represented by avatars, engage in a simulated reality.