Understanding the metaverse is tricky, especially since it doesn’t exist yet. With big tech companies like Epic Games, Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, and Facebook (I mean “Meta”) talking about it all the time, there’s an evolving lexicon for describing the next iteration of the internet.

In that spirit, Quartz compiled a vocabulary list for the curious reader of the metaverse:

Definition of the metaverse

Metaverse: If the contemporary Internet experience is two-dimensional, meaning you navigate and scroll through it on a screen, the metaverse is 3D. You will be “walking” through it through connected headphones or glasses.

It’s unclear whether there will be one metaverse or many different separate metaverses (or any metaverse, really), but this seems to be the one constant: The…