What is Metaverse? What’s All The Hype?

The term "metaverse" is all over the place. Microsoft cited the so-called metaverse as a reason for paying $68.7 billion for game developer Activision Blizzard, claiming that the deal would provide "building blocks for the metaverse." Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has also bet on the metaverse and renamed his social networking company Meta. [...]