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

TORONTO — 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 a fixture in most homes, businesses haven’t shifted operations to the digital space en masse and an abundance of questions remain about how safe the technology is and whether it’s really needed. Media outlet Business Insider even wrote the…