Metaverse

The term 'Metaverse' was first used in Neal Stephenson's novel 'Snow Crash' (1992), describing a virtual shared space, where humans interact as their avatars with software agents in a virtual world. Similar concepts have appeared in other cyberpunk sci-fi novels, such as William Gibson's 'Burning Chrome' and 'Neuromancer', with the difference being the interaction between the virtual and real world that the Metaverse supports.