Today Facebook officially rebranded as “Meta” underlining their clear intentions to become a leader in Metaverse development. The term “Metaverse” will no doubt trigger a new era of challenging explanations, potential applications, and endless hype within technological circles, just as we saw with the IoT, the cloud, the internet, or electricity. The term metaverse was first ​​coined in Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson’s 1992 sci-fi novel, it refers to a convergence of physical, augmented, and virtual reality in a shared online space. Today, big tech and technology companies are trying to do just that —converge the physical, augmented, and virtual worlds into one connected platform that we all live, work, and play in. If fully realized, the Metaverse promises a disruption on par with personal computing, smartphones, or the internet. It is a world of software, enabled by a new set of hardware that seeks to harmonize our physical and digital experience. “Just as it was hard to […]