, a metaverse technology company, argues that the metaverse has little to do with the devices or rails that we use to represent and reach it. He says it is defined by the experiences and social interactions that we have within it, the meaning that we derive from those experiences, and how the value created by those experiences is exchanged with other interconnected worlds.
Removing digitalness from the definition really helped me grasp the true meaning of the metaverse and why it should matter to us at all. In blockchain, and the tech world more broadly, we have a tendency to pedestalize the technology as though it’s a use case in and of itself. But this is missing the point.According to Narula, “virtual worlds are spoken into existence and sustained by the strength of our collective belief in them.