Internet, broadband, mobile computing… Radical change takes time and the metaverse will be no different.

“Most things that are successful don’t require retraining 250 million people.”

cabling magazine published this line in 1995, referring to the Internet.

You could apply the same thought to the metaverse. There is a lot of skepticism about this digital ecosystem on the market, and many critics have dismissed the innovation as little more than hype or adapted virtual reality, which never got off the ground. However, the skeptics are wrong. They often start with the wrong premise: that the metaverse is being built from the ground up.

5G and beyond

That task, creating a massive virtual network of worlds that anyone can access, is daunting, especially when you consider that…