When Mark Zuckerberg announced last year that Facebook would change its name to Meta and that, within five years, the company would go from primarily a social media company to a “metaverse” company, many people were skeptical, confused, or outright scared.

The metaverse, a concept drawn from science fiction, is a simulated virtual world where people can socialize, work and play through digital avatars of themselves rather than their actual physical bodies. While some elements of the metaverse, such as virtual reality headsets, are already in use, most of the fundamental technology underpinning the potential metaverse doesn’t currently exist, and according to Zuckerberg’s estimates, some of it could take up to 15 years to build. .

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