There are No True Metaverse Apps Yet

The diagram below illustrates what I believe the Metaverse is — an all encompassing matrix across all the layers of our experience. Based on this perspective, I don’t yet see any true Metaverse app in the market.

The Metaverse must include ALL the layers. There is still no app or service that truly integrates them all. So there is actually no true Metaverse app in existence yet. Today what is often called “metaverse” is synonymous with “VR worlds” … but that is only part of the equation. The true metaverse will seamlessly interweave all the layers of our experience into a single fabric. 

In the Image below, some logos are confined within a narrow layer and some span across several layers of the onion. The strongest franchises connect two or three layers together.



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About Nova Spivack

A prolific inventor, noted futurist, computer scientist, and technology pioneer, Nova was one of the earliest Web pioneers and helped to build many leading ventures including EarthWeb, The Daily Dot, Klout, and SRI’s venture incubator that launched Siri. Nova flew to the edge of space in 1999 as one of the first space tourists, and was an early space angel-investor. As co-founder and chairman of the nonprofit charity, the Arch Mission Foundation, he leads an international effort to backup planet Earth, with a series of “planetary backup” installations around the solar system. In 2024, he landed his second Lunar Library, on the Moon – comprising a 30 million page archive of human knowledge, including the Wikipedia and a library of books and other cultural archives, etched with nanotechnology into nickel plates that last billions of years. Nova is also highly active on the cutting-edges of AI, consciousness studies, computer science and physics, authoring a number of groundbreaking new theoretical and mathematical frameworks. He has a strong humanitarian focus and works with a wide range of humanitarian projects, NGOs, and teams working to apply technology to improve the human condition.