Imagine using Google Street View to pull up the location of your grandmother’s childhood home, then jumping into the map and walking down the street as it would have looked when she lived there. A virtual world where a classic car drives past and where, maybe, you buy a model of it for IRL (in real life).
Usually associated with online gaming, the next frontier of the internet, the metaverse, is described as the merging of the physical and digital worlds, a place where users move through virtual spaces in real time: you could meet friends, host work meetings, attend a conference, try on clothes and, of course, spend money.
The metaverse has not yet gone mainstream, but some believe it will be bigger than