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?

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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney imagines the future of his Cary-based company will exist in the metaverse. Sweeney has promoted the metaverse concept since at least 2015, and this spring he went further, ...

The social media giant is now building a metaverse that is no longer in virtual reality. So is it a metaverse at all? Reading time 2 minutes After two years, Meta has opened its Horizon Worlds ...

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