DR VR in critical care. © Image courtesy of Rescape Innovation.
 

You’ll have been hard pushed not to have heard the word “metaverse” over the past few months.
 

You may not be aware, however, of Big Tech’s increasing pursuance of the metaverse, as recently demonstrated by Facebook’s announcement of its new name Meta, or Unity’s (a global engine behind many 3D games) recent $1.63bn purchase of Weta Digital – the company behind Lord of the Rings 3D environments.
 

Before you stop reading, this article is not going to be a review of deep tech, but more a heads up that a future world of immersive technology and environments is going to f...

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