What Even Is the Metaverse? Meta's Design Team Explains

Matt Earp, a Lead Content Designer in Meta Reality Labs, draws back the curtain on how the metaverse takes shape in the language and concepts of Meta Horizon, Meta's social, spatial operating system for VR and mobile. Building it, he argues, means pulling inspiration from fiction, modern culture, technology, music, event production, writing, and mindfulness. He shows how the words designers choose shape the worlds they build, even when those worlds do not yet exist.