The metaverse, so far, has largely sat in my consciousness alongside cryptocurrency and NFTs. It’s something that I know is happening in the background and that many people are incredibly passionate about, but if you were to ask me what it’s really about, I couldn’t tell you.
However, recently my ears have pricked up at mentions of the metaverse in design circles. While Mark Zuckerberg’s recent reveal of his avatar that looked like 10-year-old computer game graphics didn’t convince me that the metaverse was something that demanded any of my attention, hyper-realistic images of ethereal, other-worldly architecture and interiors being ‘built’ for virtual worlds has highlighted that this is fast becoming a platform for a new and invigorating exploration of design.
However, with no plans to inhabit a virtual world myself at this moment in time, I was interested to know what implications architecture and interior design in the metaverse would have on what
