Bytemarks Cafe: Virtual Reality and the Metaverse

By Burt Lum

Published August 18, 2021 at 11:21 PM HST

Today on Bytemarks Cafe, we'll find out the latest in virtual reality or VR and find out if during the pandemic it's gained any traction. We'll also learn about the Metaverse, a term coined in Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel Snow Crash, and find out how Mark Zuckerberg sees it as Facebook's future.

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