It seems that we are going to live in the Metaverse. Is it an empty marketing shell or the opium of the people?

By Piotr Szostak

(Gazeta Wyborcza)

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Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs predict the advent of the new internet: the metaverse.

According to them, tomorrow, this cyberspace - a three-dimensional immersion platform connecting social networks, games and applications - will replace the mobile internet.

Represented by a 3D avatar, we will meet there, learn, work there and shop there.

Instead of staring at screens, we will “walk” in virtual reality.

Tech giants like Facebook (which recently changed its name to Meta, mostly to escape image issues) or Microsoft have made metaverse development a priority and are investing billions of dollars in its development.

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But what is it really, if not a virtual reality experience on which Silicon Valley has been working for more than ten years without having frankly met with huge success until ...

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