What Is Metaverse Technology?

The metaverse is a version of the internet featuring decentralized, persistent 3D virtual environments accessible through VR headsets, augmented reality (AR) glasses, smartphones, PCs and game consoles. Users create digital avatars to interact, visit far-flung locations both real and imagined, and buy and sell goods.

What is metaverse and how does it work?

The metaverse is essentially a merging of virtual, augmented, and physical reality, and blurs the line between your interactions online and in real life. But broken down more simply, it's a handful of platforms like the Sandbox, Mirandus, and Decentraland on which people can interact in different ways.

What is the point of metaverse?

In the broadest terms, the metaverse is understood as a graphically rich virtual space, with some degree of verisimilitude, where people can work, play, shop, socialize — in short, do the things humans like to do together in real life (or, perhaps more to the point, on the internet).