metaverse

noun

meta·verse ˈme-tə-ˌvərs

plural metaverses

computing : a persistent virtual (see virtual sense 2) environment that allows access to and interoperability of multiple individual virtual realities

To its proponents, the metaverse is the natural evolution of the internet. They envisage a sprawling network of interconnected virtual worlds for such diverse activities as gaming, watching live entertainment, … and collaborating on design projects.—

Edd Gent

also : any of the individual virtual environments that make up a metaverse

Metaverses are immersive three-dimensional virtual worlds in which people interact as avatars with each other and with software agents, using the metaphor of the real world but without its physical limitations. —

Alanah Davis et al.

cosmology : the hypothetical combination of all co-existing or sequentially existing universes compare multiverse

Examples of metaverse in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The goal was to better understand what parts of the world are investing in the metaverse, which sectors are seeing the most activity and in what areas, and what is the outlook for the industrial metaverse. —

Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024 A number of restaurant chains, including Wendy’s and Chipotle, set up digital camps in the metaverse as well. —

Angela L. Pagán / The Takeout, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024 Consequently, appeals to ‘Web3’ and ‘the metaverse’ were absent from this February’s New York Fashion Week. —

Jackie Berardo, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 Both the metaverse and the fediverse are relatively new digital ecosystems — the first virtual reality headset company was started back in the 1980s, and the concept of the fediverse was introduced in 2010 by software developer Evan Prodromou. —

Laura Bratton, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2024 The metaverse isn’t just a fancy buzzword for virtual reality, either. —

Gene Park, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024 Starbucks may not be done with its pup cups, but it is done with the metaverse. —

Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024 Apple has avoided marketing the Vision Pro as something that replaces the real world or isolates you in some kind of sci-fi metaverse. —

Kevin Roose, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024 Beauty game on with Sephora’s new metaverse On the main stage at NFT Paris, Sephora Global Innovation Director Vincent Benoist discussed Sephora Universe, the LVMH beauty giant’s upcoming metaverse. —

Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024

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