Augmented reality: an early taste of the metaverse?

Lisbon: When Facebook unveiled a mock-up last week of the “metaverse” — supposedly the internet of the future — it showed people transported to a psychedelic world of flying fish and friendly robots.

But while even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledges these kinds of experiences could be many years away, some enthusiasts argue that a more modest version of the metaverse is already here.

“We’re in the early stages of the metaverse, in some ways,” Peggy Johnson, CEO of Magic Leap, told AFP at the Web Summit in Lisbon on Tuesday.