Recognized as one of the most turbulent years for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, 2022 has still been a vigorous one for the metaverse. With more than $120 billion invested in the first half of the year alone, according to a McKinsey report, the industry is anything but broken.

Some of the biggest partnerships to date were sealed throughout 2022, even with some unexpected institutions, like JP Morgan, for example, embracing the Web3 revolution despite their proverbial distaste for the concept of decentralization.

Here’s what you need to know about the influential developments, projects, and events that shaped the metaverse in 2022.

The metaverse, first coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science fiction novel snow shock and described as an accessible computer-generated universe…