Fast Company May 10, 2022
Sam Glassenberg

Cloud gaming technology can enable physicians from disparate locations to practice procedures together, collaboratively, on a virtual patient over Zoom.

Let me confirm what might be nagging you about the “metaverse”: There’s more to it than what you’ve been reading.

The metaverse hype-men would have you believe that the ultimate purpose of this technology is a fancy ‘second life’ where consumers put on a clunky headset, create a digital twin of themselves, and buy that twin some virtual Nike shoes and artificial real estate. It’s all sneakers and NFTs; shopping, sports and concerts. It’s all consumerism and little impact.

At best, this is an ill-informed vision of where this technology (that the video game industry built and developed over decades)...

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