METAVERSE construction from the Latin meta=beyond and from verse, derived from the verb versus , to turn . In other words, it means one and what surrounds it more distantly, that is, an expanded universe, or that gives greater importance to what surrounds us far away. The director of Meta, the new name of the Facebook platform said that it was "a group of digital spaces that includes 3D, immersive, virtual reality, augmented reality, among others, experiences that are interconnected. Then one can move through these spaces as if one were walking." But the term has previously been used for interactive multiplayer video games, such as World of Warcraft. The creator of the word was Stephenson, who in 1991 used it to define the virtual world, which expanded the perception of the self by the real world. But then the concept was taking 4 different directions, those of four different synthetic worlds namely: Virtual games and virtual worlds: Worlds similar to the one narrated in the novel Snow Crash. They are fully immersive virtual environments, in which the user experiences a simultaneous and joint immersion with other users within a virtual world. This contact may consist of participation in a game (such as World of Warcraft or Tibia), or it may refer to the social aspect (Second Life, for example). Mirror Worlds: Detailed virtual representations of some element of the real world (e.g., . Google Earth, where you can travel the world visualizing each geographical place as if you were really traveling through the places you see) Augmented reality: Applied mirror world technology, which solve problems of daily living. It expands the perceptible physical world, creating an expanded universe of useful information. Lifelogging: anglicism that means log or recording of life, in the sense of carrying or accumulating the history of events. In English, the term comes from log, trunk, and the verb responds to the accumulation of logs by lumberjacks. Then computer science and other areas incorporated it to name a set of to-dos (backlog). As these verbs do not exist in Spanish (registration would be ambiguous) the original word is adapted. Systems that collect information about everyday life, big data, which they then process in statistical form.
It is one of the names given to the immersive virtual environment, where you can interact with other people in the form of an avatar. It is typical of network games, virtual visits to museums or fairs, social networks such as Second Life, and even interactive maps or augmented reality environments. It is formed by the Greek prefix meta- ("beyond, elsewhere") latin versus (participle of pouring "to turn around"), as "the alternative environment, the evolution of the natural environment". The term became known for the novel Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1992), which is set in a virtual universe.
