Metaverse: What happened to Mark Zuckerberg's next big thing? - BBC News

Two years ago, the metaverse was billed as the next big thing - but many in the tech world have already moved on.

22 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesBy James ClaytonNorth America technology reporterThere was a time before ChatGPT when the tech world was talking about something entirely different.

Remember the metaverse?

For a while it dominated tech news. A virtual reality world that would be so immersive, so engaging, that we would want to spend part of our lives in it.

Driving the metaverse narrative was Mark Zuckerberg.

The tech billionaire was so committed that in October 2021 he changed Facebook's name to Meta.

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