On November 7, 2022, Lee Winbush ’17 MBA, 3M Engineer, Adjunct Professor from St. Thomas, and Executive Member of Business in a Digital World (BDW), posed that question to more than 100 attendees at “Enter the Metaverse: Demystifying This Year’s Buzziest Trend” as part of the Business in a Digital World: Demystifying Tech speaker series.

The event kicked off with a video in which St. Thomas mechanical engineering student Mellissa Ingabire asked students and faculty, “What is the metaverse?” It was clear that although some people gave vague descriptions, no one could give a clear definition and many people just didn’t know. Lucky for the brilliant minds that…