As early as 1935, science fiction writer Stanley Weinbaum describes the main character exploring a fictional world wearing a pair of glasses in his book Pygmalion’s Spectacles.

Sound eerily familiar?

That’s because nearly a century later, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, changed the company’s name to Meta. With it, he outlined a vision in which billions of users around the world would work, play and socialize in immersive digital environments.

And just like that, the metaverse is no longer confined within the lexicon of sci-fi fans and hardcore gamers. These days, the term has become a comprehensive jargon representing augmented reality (AR) apps for anything that uses a virtual reality (VR) headset.

As we can see, even though Zuckerberg didn’t come up with the metaverse…