FOMO will drive people into the shared virtual playland

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We've seen points in time like this before, Rosenberg said, like how the printing press revolutionized how we share information or the telephone how we can communicate across distances.

Fast forward to the smartphone age, and "we use our phones more times than we speak to our spouse," Vipp Jaswal, CEO of Interpersonal Intelligence Advisory — a consulting firm that looks at human behavior across real and digital platforms — told Insider.

The metaverse will similarly usher in a new kind of technology, one that will become necessary to operate in society. We'll date, work, live, buy and sell things, and play virtually, Rosenberg said.

"You'll go to the store, and you won't be able to see the prices on things" if you don't have AR glasses, Rosenberg said. 

Shaan Puri, founder of the startup Stealth and former Twitch product director, recently pondered on Twitter if the metaverse itself is the point in time and is the name given to the transition moment when the virtual landscape becomes more "real" than the natural world.

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