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Understanding Facebook's Metaverse Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced at his Virtual and Augmented Reality Conference that he will be changing the company name to “Meta,” with a focus on developing something called the “Metaverse.” The concept is actually almost thirty years old. The term “metaverse” was first used by science fiction author Neal Stephenson in his novel “Snow Crash,” where he also coined the phrase “virtual reality.” In Stephenson’s book, the metaverse represents a 3D virtual space where individuals interact with...