MIT artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky coined the term “suitcase words,” words or terms that mean nothing on their own but contain various ideas that you need to unpack, said Paul McDonagh-Smith, senior professor of information technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management. .

“I think this is a good way to visualize the metaverse, as a suitcase with various different technologies, principles and potentials packed inside it,” McDonagh-Smith said.

The metaverse resides within the family of extended reality technologies that includes augmented, mixed, and virtual reality, as well as virtual worlds, telepresence, 360 video, filters, digital twins, and more, according to McDonagh-Smith. In terms of key principles, the…