Mark Zuckerberg Quietly Buries the Metaverse
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By Luc Olinga The CEO of social-media giant Meta has sworn by AI, popularized by the chatbot ChatGPT. There will be no press release, no big announcement, as he would have to acknowledge that he was wrong. But make no mistake: Mark Zuckerberg just buried the metaverse. The metaverse is dead. The metaverse was supposed to be the Next Big Thing for the social-media tycoon, who in 2021 went so far as to rename his empire — created from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — as Meta Platforms. Simply put, the metaverse is an immersive virtual World in which we are supposed to interact with each othe…