Defining the Metaverse

A resource written by Apurva Shah on Duality's blog

Introduction

In What is the Metaverse?, we provided an overview of the diverse contexts in which the metaverse comes up. It's applications and disruptive influence span across myriad areas including social interaction; online games & entertainment; virtual, augmented & mixed realities; the future of the internet; and tokenized & gig economies. 

In this blog, we will dive into the interaction and technical details. We will identify the commonality between these seemingly disparate ideas through the lens of interaction design and put forward a unified, practice oriented definition of the metaverse.

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