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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: What is the metaverse and can it replace the real world?
Description: The idea of a virtual world existing in parallel to the real one was once the stuff of science fiction. But today, millions of people are already spending hours a day in virtual spaces and spending billions of dollars on things that simply don’t exist in a physical environment.
When Facebook changed its name to Meta last year and rebranded itself as a “metaverse company”, what was once a controversial idea among tech enthusiasts came crashing into the mainstream.
Now, the company and others like it are betting big that we will all be spen...