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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: What happened to the metaverse?
Description: This week Iām talking to Matthew Ball, who was last on the show in 2022 to talk about his bookĀ āThe Metaverse: How it Will Revolutionize Everything.ā Itās 2024 and itās safe to say that has not happened yet. But Mattās still on the case ā in fact he just released an almost complete update of the book, now with the much more sober title, āBuilding the Spatial Internet.āMatt and I talked a lot about where the previous metaverse hype cycle landed us, and what there is to learn from these boom and bust waves. We...