The Metaverse

The Metaverse

Metaverse is a term coined by Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash (1992), a book of Cyberpunk fiction, described as a virtual reality shared via the Internet, where it is represented in three dimensions through their avatars. According to Stephenson, the metaverse is his idea because there are many times when it is awkward to use the term virtual reality. This virtual world, created artificially by a computer program, hosts a community of users present in the form of avatars that can move around, to interact socially and sometimes economically. In addition to this, they can also interact with computer ...