Hacker Noon September 23, 2022
When Facebook announced that it was changing its name to Meta, that quickly raised the profile of the metaverse from an emerging, but relatively fringe technology to the mainstream. Yes, there are established applications and a degree of public understanding through experience with consumer augmented or virtual reality, but a full-blown metaverse is still a vision.
Expanding the Metaverse
Realizing the vision of the Metaverse takes two crucial steps; one is raising awareness of the application and benefits of the metaverse; the other is having the technology infrastructure in place to ensure the optimum, reliable operation of those applications.
Take a simple museum visitor using an AR or VR headset to view a special exhibit as an example. Even at...