Simon Jones: Meta the devil you know

I was interviewed recently by an eyewear market report analyst, and asked if I thought spectacles and sunglasses would be a driver in the metaverse.

Most people will have been made aware of the metaverse and what it entails when Facebook changed its company name to Meta in October 2021. I certainly didn’t prior to that and it took a bit of head scratching to appreciate what the term actually meant. At the time, Mark Zuckerberg described it as an online world where people could ‘game, work and communicate in virtual and augmented environments,’ often using virtual reality headsets and other access points like smartphones, computers and tablets.