But the word is currently being used in many different contexts in wildly different ways. For instance, the Forbes technology Council gave it an expansive definition as a Marvel-esque “multiverse of metaverses.”
For his part, Meta/Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg famously defined the metaverse as not a place at aLL, virtual or otherwise, but a time. “One definition of this [the metaverse] is it’s about a time when basically immersive digital worlds become the primary way that we live our lives and spend our time,” he said in a February 2022 interview.