Guest: Matthew Ball, author of "The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything"

Many of the world's biggest companies are investing heavily in, and betting big on, the metaverse. There are different visions of what the metaverse might look like depending on who's speaking, but regardless it will be the next big evolution of the internet as how we interact with it becomes more immersive. It will all take time because there are several challenges and technologies that need to mature before it happens. Matthew Ball, author of "The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything," joins "This Matters" podcast, to talk about how the metaverse is defined so far and shed light on the road leading to how it may be created.

This episode was produced by Brian Bradley, Matthew Hearn and Raju Mudhar.