found: Work cat: Met'abŏsŭ han nun e pogi , 2021(book is about how metaverse is affecting different industries including, health, education, entertainment, etc. and the government policies on metaverse) (DLC)2022390237
found: Cambridge dictionary, July 25, 2022("the internet considered as an imaginary area without limits where you can meet people in virtual reality (= images and sounds, produced by a computer, that seem to represent a real place or situation)")
found: Ball, M. The metaverse, 2022:CIP galley p. 22 (wide disagreement and confusion over the term; sometimes seen as a marketing buzzword) CIP galley, p. 29 ("A massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time rendered 3D virtual worlds that can be experienced synchronously and persistently by an effectively unlimited number of users with an individual sense of presence, and with continuity of data, such as identity, history, entitlements, objects, communications, and payments") (DLC)2022017893
found: Wikipedia, viewed July 25, 2022:under "Metaverse" ("In futurism and science fiction, the metaverse is a hypothetical iteration of the Internet as a single, universal and immersive virtual world that is facilitated by the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) headsets. In colloquial use, a metaverse is a network of 3D virtual worlds focused on social connection. The term "metaverse" originated in the 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash as a portmanteau of "meta" and "universe." ... Recent interest in metaverse development is influenced by Web3, a concept for a decentralized iteration of the internet")
