{"id":129489,"date":"2021-10-25T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T13:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/apparently-its-the-next-big-thing-what-is-the-metaverse"},"modified":"2021-10-25T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T13:22:18","slug":"apparently-its-the-next-big-thing-what-is-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/apparently-its-the-next-big-thing-what-is-the-metaverse","title":{"rendered":"Apparently, it\u2019s the next big thing. What is the metaverse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apparently-its-the-next-big-thing-what-is-the-metaverse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook has just announced it\u2019s going to hire 10,000 people in Europe to develop the \u201cmetaverse\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is a concept which is being talked up by some as the future of the internet. But what exactly is it?<\/p>\n<p>**What is the metaverse?<br \/> **<br \/> To the outsider, it may look like a souped-up version of Virtual Reality (VR) \u2014 but some people think the metaverse could be the future of the internet.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the belief is that it could be to VR what the modern smartphone is to the first clunky mobile phones of the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of being on a computer, in the metaverse you might use a headset to enter a virtual world connecting all sorts of digital environments.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike current VR, which is mostly used for gaming, this virtual world could be used for practically anything \u2014 work, play, concerts, cinema trips \u2014 or just hanging out.<\/p>\n<p>Most people envision that you would have a 3D avatar \u2014 a representation of yourself \u2014 as you use it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/apparently-its-the-next-big-thing-what-is-the-metaverse\">Continue reading \u201cApparently, it\u2019s the next big thing. What is the metaverse?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has just announced it\u2019s going to hire 10,000 people in Europe to develop the \u201cmetaverse\u201d. This is a concept which is being talked up by some as the future of the internet. But what exactly is it? **What is the metaverse? ** To the outsider, it may look like a souped-up version of Virtual [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}