# Metaverse (emerging concept)

**Published by:** [lovers](https://paragraph.com/@lovers/)
**Published on:** 2021-12-14
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@lovers/metaverse-emerging-concept

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Metaverse is a virtual world that maps and interacts with the real world and a digital living space with a new social system, which is linked and created by means of science and technology. [12] It integrates a variety of new technologies and produce a new type of the actual situation of blending of Internet applications and social form, which is based on extended reality technology provide immersive experience, twin technology generates a mirror image of the real world, based on digital technology based on block chain structures, economic system, the virtual world and real world in the economic system, social system, identity system closely, It also allows each user to do content production and world editing. The term was coined in the 1992 science fiction novel Avalanche, which depicts a vast virtual reality world in which people are controlled by digital avatars and compete with each other to improve their status, and is still described as futuristic. [1] As for the "metasomes", the more recognized source of the idea is Professor Vernor Vinci, an American mathematician and computer expert. In his 1981 novel The Real Names, he creatively conceived a virtual world that could be accessed and experienced through a brain-computer interface. [4] [24] The meta-universe is essentially a virtual and digitized process of the real world, requiring a lot of changes in content production, economic systems, user experience, and physical world content. But the metasexes evolve gradually, as tools and platforms converge and evolve, underpinned by shared infrastructure, standards and protocols. [23] In December 2021, it was selected as word of the Year 2021 by Collins Dictionary [21]. On Dec 6, it was selected as one of the top 10 Internet phrases of 2021. [22] On December 8, it was selected as one of the "top ten Buzzwords of 2021" by Bite Wen Zao Zi. [30]

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