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The metaverse: will it be safe for use?

The idea of a virtual world that we can interact with is rapidly becoming more likely. It’s called the metaverse and it offers the potential of an internet that we will explore via virtual reality. But are the first users putting themselves at risk?

CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THE METAVERSE IS?

There are a few definitions. You can think of it from a technological viewpoint, where it’s simply the successor of the internet. Computers once took up big rooms, but they’ve shrunk until we got things like pocket-sized smartphones that you constantly interact with.

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