By CNBCTV18.com Jan 4, 2022 8:58:11 PM IST (Published)
Metaverse is a digital world created using different technologies like Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (VR), and cryptocurrency, and the Internet. Here's how it all started
Metaverse may have become the buzzword only recently, but it is well-known Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (www) in 1989. Then in 1992, sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson coined the term 'metaverse' to describe a 3D virtual space.
Fast forward to 2022, the metaverse is a digital world created using different technologies like Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (VR), and cryptocurrency, and the Internet.
However, a lot happened in these 30 years, from Philip Rosedale's 'Second Life' online virtual world in 2003 to Mark Zuckerberg's 2021 announcement of Meta's (formerly Facebook) metaverse plan.