Caliverse
Caliverse, a virtual reality company, came to CES 2023 with not just a few virtual reality headsets, but enough to fill a small theater. All these headsets were there to help generate buzz for the company’s conception of the “metaverse,” the still-nebulous concept of a shared VR space. They were all part of the Caliverse Hyper-Realistic Metaverse experience, which used Unreal Engine graphics to showcase such beautiful destinations as an office building or shopping mall. We here at Gizmodo have been plenty skeptical about digital scarcity, digital “land,” and the metaverse in totality, but sitting down next to dozens of other users to experience a CGI shopping mall is probably the worst thing I could do with my time.
