{"id":130173,"date":"2021-11-07T10:43:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T18:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-metaverse-is-coming-cathy-hackl-explains-why-we-should-care"},"modified":"2021-11-07T10:43:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T18:43:11","slug":"the-metaverse-is-coming-cathy-hackl-explains-why-we-should-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-metaverse-is-coming-cathy-hackl-explains-why-we-should-care","title":{"rendered":"The metaverse is coming. Cathy Hackl explains why we should care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-metaverse-is-coming-cathy-hackl-explains-why-we-should-care.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oou may have heard of the metaverse \u2014 but let\u2019s be honest: do you really know what that means? If you\u2019re unsure, you\u2019re not alone: The metaverse is hard to pinpoint. It doesn\u2019t even have a definition in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Cathy Hackl, tells Freethink. A \u201cChief Metaverse Officer,\u201d Hackl is a professionally trained futurist and strategist, who has worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Magic Leap, and HTC VIVE, and helps brands understand how this new paradigm will affect their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>If you think of Web 1.0 as the internet that connected us to information, and Web 2.0 as the social-media iteration, which connects people, Web 3.0 (which we\u2019re now entering) is connecting people, places, and things, says Hackl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes, these people, places, and things can be in a fully virtual or synthetic environment, or they could be in a physical world with some level of augmentation,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s in the nascent phase,\u201d I spoke to Hackl about the role of gaming in the metaverse, how it can change our sense of identity, and other subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oou may have heard of the metaverse \u2014 but let\u2019s be honest: do you really know what that means? If you\u2019re unsure, you\u2019re not alone: The metaverse is hard to pinpoint. It doesn\u2019t even have a definition in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Cathy Hackl, tells Freethink. A \u201cChief Metaverse Officer,\u201d Hackl is a professionally trained futurist [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130173","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=130173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}