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Aurélie Jean: “But where has the metaverse gone?”

2024-02-29T13:33:31.960Z

Highlights: Aurélie Jean: “But where has the metaverse gone?”. Mark Zuckerberg announced with great fanfare that the Facebook group was renaming itself Meta. But today, no coherent and reliable metaverse has been presented to the general public. We all remember the experiments of Carrefour and Mr. Propre. We can also wonder if the Meta company does not regret its name change in 2021, after the announcement of a major development program for the Metaverse.


FIGAROVOX/CHRONIQUE - On October 29, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced with great fanfare that the Facebook group was renaming itself Meta in order to mark its new objective: building the metaverse. But today, no coherent and reliable metaverse has been presented to the general public, notes our columnist.


Aurélie Jean is a doctor of science and entrepreneur.

She notably published

Do algorithms make the law?

(L'Observatoire, 2022) and co-wrote

Resistance 2050

(L'Observatoire, 2023).

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After the media buzz about the imminent arrival of a metaverse, the time has come for reality and pragmatism.

No coherent and reliable metaverse has yet been designed and presented to the general public.

On the other hand, a few attempts, ultimately failed, made the news at the risk of damaging the efforts made in public and private research to achieve this.

We all remember the experiments of Carrefour and Mr. Propre.

Not without a certain humor, we can also wonder if the Meta company does not regret its name change in 2021, after the announcement of a major development program for the metaverse.

But where has the metaverse gone?

We recall here that the word “metaverse” is the contraction of the words “meta” and “universe”, and that it translates immersive, virtual and digitized universes…

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Source: lefigaro

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