2022 OPENED THE DOOR TO MANY POSSIBILITIES IN THE METAVERSE

 The doors that the metaverse has opened

This year we said goodbye to Facebook Inc. to welcome Meta and the "next chapter for the Internet", in the words of its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg who presented the next social platform: the metaverse

The next platform will be even more immersive: a built-in internet where you are in the experience, not just looking at it. We call this the metaverse and it will affect every product we build," Zuckerberg wrote.

According to the Meta CEO, the sense of presence within the metaverse will be the "defining quality", as ideally, the metaverse could do "almost anything you can imagine", such as meeting with friends and family, working, playing, buy and create

Months before the Meta announcement, Matthew Ball, a venture capitalist and one of the "most sophisticated thinkers of the metaverse," according to Zuckerberg, wrote in one of his many essays that the metaverse is not something that is just going to start exist

There will be no 'Before the Metaverse' and 'After the Metaverse'. Instead, it will slowly emerge over time as different products, services, and capabilities integrate and work." And for this to happen, new technologies, protocols and innovation will have to be developed; and that is already happening.

The clearest example is Horizon Worlds, a first installment of Zuckerberg's vision of the metaverse. "On a cold December afternoon, I played an exciting game of laser tag, flew around town on a magic broomstick, killed zombies in an abandoned mall, and hung out with an old friend who lives about 2,000 miles away. away, all without leaving my house, in fact my living room," CNN's Rachel Metz wrote of her first experience in the virtual world of Meta.

After spending days in Horizon Worlds, Metz noted that Meta's virtual universe is still far from the experience the company sold us during Facebook Connect. And it is that although Meta put the metaverse in the headlines, the virtual world in which many aspects of the physical world can be connected to the digital world does not exist, yet