Ever since Facebook rebranded to Meta in October 2021, the term metaverse came back into people’s vocabulary after years of being mostly forgotten. If you are a 90’s kid, your first interaction with something akin to a digital life was by playing games such as The Sims, GTA or by watching movies such as The Matrix. Each of these had a different proposition with The Sims allowing players to build their own virtual home and family, GTA being more of a free-roaming game set in a somewhat realistic digital world, and The Matrix being, of course, the blockbuster movie that explored the idea of where developments in AI and of virtual worlds could eventually take us. All of these made people in the early 2000’s theorize about how technology could eventually lead us to create an effective second life in a digital world that feels as real as our first one. Even though games have seen an amazing evolution and with some new movies exploring concepts of digital worlds coming out over the 2010’s, this decade saw very few people talking about the term metaverse or companies trying to explore this concept further.
We are Already Living in the Metaverse
We are Already Living in the Metaverse
We are Already Living in the Metaverse
Ever since Facebook rebranded to Meta in October 2021, the term metaverse came back into people’s vocabulary after years of being mostly forgotten. If you are a 90’s kid, your first interaction with something akin to a digital life was by playing games such as The Sims, GTA or by watching movies such as The Matrix. Each of these had a different proposition with The Sims allowing players to build their own virtual home and family, GTA being more of a free-roaming game set in a somewhat realistic digital world, and The Matrix being, of course, the blockbuster movie that explored the idea of where developments in AI and of virtual worlds could eventually take us. All of these made people in the early 2000’s theorize about how technology could eventually lead us to create an effective second life in a digital world that feels as real as our first one. Even though games have seen an amazing evolution and with some new movies exploring concepts of digital worlds coming out over the 2010’s, this decade saw very few people talking about the term metaverse or companies trying to explore this concept further.