At first glance, the term metaverse implies a single place. This might seem to mean that everyone should experience the metaverse the same way. However, the reality is that users can and should experience the metaverse in different ways.

And when one closely examines Extended Reality (XR), the core technology most people use to access the metaverse, it quickly becomes apparent that there is a spectrum of XR technologies, each offering a metaverse experience. different.

This XR spectrum includes:

• Virtual Reality (VR), which attempts, as far as possible today, to immerse users in a fully digital, fully immersive metaverse experience.
• Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) in which the metaverse augments or blends with the user’s physical reality experience.