I’m sorry, but at this point, if you don’t at least know the basics of what the Metaverse is—or what it will be, or what Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Sweeney and other tech moguls are betting billions of dollars hoping it will be—you probably shouldn’t be in the What I’m Hearing community. If not, though, how’s this for a mouthful: “A massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time rendered 3D virtual worlds that can be experienced synchronously and persistently by an effectively unlimited number of users with an individual sense of presence, and with continuity of data, such as identity, history, entitlements, objects, communications, and payments.”