Metaverse Concept Controversy What is the Metaverse? The Chinese "metaverse" is literally translated from the English noun metaverse. Its prefix "meta-" has the meaning of "meta" and "transcendent", and the root "verse" represents the universe. The combination of the two is "transcendent universe", which means the metaverse. Some people also translate it as "super universe", "super meta domain", "virtual reality", "virtual world" and so on. The Oxford English Dictionary for Web defines the me...