Building the metaverse is more about metadata (and less about 3D).

Elaboration of an original photo by Omar Flores / Unsplash.

When in 1999 Tim Berners-Lee conceptualised the semantic web he couldn’t know he was inadvertently spoiling the technological foundations of the metaverse. And he wasn’t even talking about virtual reality, neither avatars nor anything else similar… he was “just” talking about machines understanding data about data: