WGIC releases report on the geospatial industry’s place in the metaverse
The term “metaverse” was first brought into the English lexicon over 30 years ago, with author Neal Stephenson introducing the word in his 1992 book Snow Crash. For a long while after that, the word was largely under-the-radar, thought of as theoretical when it did come up, but the last few years have seen a surge and subsequent crashing of public opinion about the idea. In the time since, we have seen about as strong a representation of the Gartner Hype Cycle as one can remember in recent times.
A lot of the work being done in this area continues to be spearheaded by geospatial companies and those adjacent to the space, because as we’ve talked about before geospatial concepts are central to this idea of a metaverse. While the hype has died down since that article was published, it remains the case, and this point was recently hammered home once again with the release of a report by the WGIC entitled Bringing Geospatial Context to the Metaverse: Considerations for the Next Steps. The point of this report, as the title suggests, is to bring “geospatial context to the metaverse and provide specific considerations for the next steps towards expanding the value proposition of geospatial technology.”
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