When it comes to naming and imagining the future, science fiction loves shapes. There are the rings from the classic first player shooter. aurathe twisted maze from the cult movie of the 90s The cubethe monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. And where science fiction dreams, the pioneers of today’s metaverses follow.

Enter the Ørb of the futuristic technology company [0] (pronounced zero), a digital vehicle designed to transport its owner seamlessly between metaverses: “interoperability” in tech jargon. The purpose of the vehicle? Become a social space that offers high-fidelity immersive content platforms. In a move that the founders describe as a beta version, the first 2,500 Ørbs, coined as NFTs, were dropped via [0]the website on November 12.

No doubt, the Ørb takes some cues from science…