The public shouldn’t indiscriminately buy into big technology companies’ visions for the metaverse, a space being sold as the next digital frontier, experts said at a UC Berkeley panel.

Companies like Meta are framing this digital reality as a bright new world. But these spaces are built on our physical world, impacting everything from our environment to our social structure, the panelists said. Everyone from artists to technology workers should play a role in envisioning these 3D user-centered spaces and critically considering the implications for society, they said.

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