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Tomorrow - The Metaverse Emerges Slowly at CES By Andy Marken Covering the Metaverse at this year’s CES is difficult. The Metaverse is really like a giant iceberg. The stuff you see on the show floor – headgear, glasses, apparel, toy guns – is the 10 percent folks see, smell, feel, talk about, brag about at the show. But the truth is ninety percent of the Metaverse is totally out of the view of the consumer – below the waterline. The Metaverse for the time being is really all about creatives – game, content developers – who develop the environment, the experience. The whole idea sorta started back in ’82 when Jeff Bridges slipped into a mainframe in Tron, became an avatar and battled programs. Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, took it further with cyberpunks that hung out in a new world he dubbed Metaverse.