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Metaverse — Hype or the Unparalleled Revolution of the Internet?
A few months ago, Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook “Meta.” He is now positioning Facebook for the future and investing billions of dollars in the metaverse.
JP Morgan announced that it now has a presence in the metaverse because it sees a role for banks there in the future. It is the first bank to open in a virtual world.
BMW recently announced the arrival of a new electric car model in the metaverse. People were able to see the new model and interact with it.
Hugo Boss has made it possible to buy physical products within the metaverse. It will feature many products during the Metaverse Fashion Week hosted by Decentraland.
McDonald’s is trademarking a new virtual restaurant that will deliver real food to your home that people order in the metaverse.
So, hopefully, you can see that the metaverse is far from just a video gaming space. It is a new online digital frontier that will change how everything works!
So what is the metaverse exactly?
It is a virtual reality world — a digital world online — where people can interact and experience the same things they do in the real world.
