What is the metaverse blockchain technology and how does it work?





 "If you ask people today what they think the metaverse is, many would probably say it's a Avengers movie," joked Mark Zuckerberg about a month ago at his Connect2021 event. Regardless of his attempt to make us laugh, the doubt is very real and currently haunts the heads of many:


What is the metaverse and how does it work?


We are talking about a virtual universe where it is not only possible to communicate, but also to carry out all your daily activities, from working to socializing and playing. This is the idea behind a space that has ceased to be science fiction to become reality. But, what is it about? How does it work? Who is driving it? We solve all your doubts.

A metaverse is an environment where humans interact socially and economically as avatars in cyberspace, acting as a metaphor for the real world but without its physical or economic limitations.

The concept was coined in 1992 by the American writer Neal Stephenson, in the novel Snow Crash (1992), where he describes a collective virtual space compatible and convergent with “real reality”.

Stephenson's metaverse unfolds as an urban environment developed along a single 100-meter-wide road that runs around the entire circumference of a planet. Users access personal or public terminals through glasses, and appear as avatars, who travel the planet on foot or by vehicle.

Who is driving the metaverse
Although in mid-2021 Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, confirmed that the company was working on its own metaverse, a series of initiatives developed in the last two decades are what have actually given the impetus that this technology needed.

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