What Exactly Is the Metaverse?

First off, to be fair to those for whom this is only beginning to make some sense, it's because we're at the stage now with the metaverse that we were with the idea of e-commerce while we were still booting up chubby internet-free desktops with a string of weird codes just to play Tetris in black and white. Just like desktops and the power they could pack shrunk to petite phones, petite phones are going to shrink down to things like AR glasses (think Google Glass, which may have just been ahead of its time) or even contact lenses that do the same thing (yes, sounds a little scary). The tech expert and entrepreneur -who was formerly chief executive officer of esports tournaments platform Bebo, which was acquired in 2019 by Twitch, the leading livestreaming service for video games in the U.S., and who was then senior director of product, mobile gaming and emerging markets at Twitch - thinks of the metaverse as "a moment in time where AI becomes smarter than humans." Again, this goes back to "flexes," or social capital, being virtual versus physical for people who spend a lot