A year has passed since Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was now called Meta, told us of a brave new vision for interoperable, connected, and immersive 3D worlds where we could do everything from gaming to socializing and productivity tasks, then showed us a nightmarish hybrid of a permanent lockdown and the Mii Channel.
The metaverse had been trending prior to that, bandied around by tech entrepreneurs and industry soothsayers, but it was at that moment during the Facebook Connect conference that the world really took notice. If a company with the profile and the resources of Facebook—the sixth biggest