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Whose metaverse is it anyway?

Siggraph 2022, set in Vancouver and virtually, was filled with the usual array of beautiful and amazing images, startling new developments in processors and displays, and a myriad of other CG wonderment, in other words, just a normal Siggraph—with one exception this year—the metaverse. The metaverse is here, again, and guess what, we invented it. Who is “we”? Anyone who ...

Jon Peddie

Siggraph 2022, set in Vancouver and virtually, was filled with the usual array of beautiful and amazing images, startling new developments in processors and displays, and a myriad of other CG wonderment, in other words, just a normal Siggraph—with one exception this year—the metaverse. The metaverse is here, again, and guess what, we invented it. Who is “we”? Anyone who writes about it, which is just about everyone. So all the press releases include some claim to powering, creating, platforming, and delivering the meta, meta metaverse. However, you can’t just go out and buy three kilos of metaverse just yet—it’s
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