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Adoption Lifecycle , right? USA Phone Number List Innovation adoption life cycle. Image via Wikipedia What we now call metaverse, or virtual digital worlds, is in fact already existing technology and therefore not hype. It may sound a bit like science fiction, but we thought so about the self-driving car and even USA Phone Number List smartphones. The first forms of the metaverse already exist and show the signs of a flourishing economic development. Is the time right now? Another way USA Phone Number List to dissect the myth and hype surrounding the metaverse is to look at the visual developments on the web. For the first time with the internet, we are about to leave the largely 2D experience behind us and move towards an immersive 3D experience. But is the world ready yet? For the innovators and early majority I think absolutely.