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Meta and the Metaverse: It Better Not Be Mobile Internet 2.0

It’s been a year of new buzzwords in the web development community. In both cases, it’s unclear what these terms mean in a technical sense — but that doesn’t seem to matter in a bull market.

Most interestingly, mixed reality has been https://www.oculus.com/blog/mixed-reality-made-easy-messenger-calling-cloud-backup-and-more-in-the-newest-oculus-software-update/ to the Oculus Quest 2 software — although it’s only available to certain iPhone users (more on that shortly).

From a technical perspective, the responsibility to build out Meta’s metaverse sits with https://twitter.com/boztank, who will be Meta’s CTO going forward.

Just this year, I’ve written about how iPhone users have https://thenewstack.io/apples-browser-engine-ban-is-holding-back-web-app-innovation/ (progressive web apps) because Apple bans external browser engines from iOS.