Ever since the social giant formally known as Facebook announced its ambitious plan to tap the metaverse, the term has been all the hype. But what does metaverse truly mean?
For Isaac Spellman, a digital artist known for his whimsical, colourful, and widely imaginative paintings that favour style icon Lady Gaga, and a wealth of fashion brands from Vivienne Westwood, adidas to Reebok, the metaverse is a platform that allows him a joyful escape “from the boredom of the reality” and into a fanciful realm where creativity is limitless – the approach he takes when creating art.
Indeed, limitlessness is what the metaverse is all about. The term was first mentioned in a 1992 sci-fi novel “Snow Crash”, combining two words “meta” and “universe”.
Two decades later, a rudimentary prototype of metaverse was found in the digital game “Second Life”, developed by Linden Lab. Intended as a platform for
