Metaverse to contribute at least $45.3-billion to Canada’s annual GDP by 2035 says Meta

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Open this photo in gallery: A report released Tuesday by consulting firm Deloitte, which the tech giant commissioned last May, estimated the metaverse could contribute between $45.3 billion and $85.5 billion to Canada’s annual GDP by 2035.Marcio Jose Sanchez/The Associated Press When Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg changed his company’s name to Meta less than two years ago, he placed a multi-billion-dollar bet on a virtual but interactive realm where he believed people would work and play for generations to come. Zuckerberg’s ultimate vision is still far from reality. The Quest headsets the company created to access the metaverse aren’t...