

When Evernote was founded, its mission was to address the growing problem of succeeding in a world that was constantly increasing in volume and velocity of information. The privately-owned company is headquartered in Redwood City, California. More than 225 million people use Evernote in over 25 languages around the world. The platform can be used to take meeting notes, create web pages, view projects, and create to-do lists. Through the company's products and services, people are actually able to focus on what means the most to them. Sign-up for the Invezz newsletter, today.Evernote provides a platform for people to take notes anywhere. Apple is expected to launch its AR/VR headset in 2023.Īre you looking for fast-news, hot-tips and market analysis? Other than that, Libin agreed, the components of the metaverse like augmented reality have a “big future” and hold the potential to bring about real change in our personal and professional lives. But Meta’s definition of this persistent interconnected 3D world, experienced with a big VR headset on your face, where we live and go to meetings and shop like that, that’s certainly not going to happen. We’ve all been in the metaverse for years, if it means the internet or the digital world.

But the definition that Meta Platforms is proposing, he added, is quite unrealistic. Libin is not onboard with Meta’s definition of the wordĪccording to Libin, he doesn’t have a problem with “metaverse” as long as it means, broadly speaking, the internet. Libin’s remarks come only days after the world’s largest retail chain, Walmart Inc, said it will launch its own cryptocurrency and a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to position itself as a beneficiary of the metaverse.

My prediction is that a year from now, it’ll be rare to see the word metaverse be used unironically. So, to see so much hype about this weird dystopian sci-fi vision that no one actually wants is just lame. There’s so many real problems in the world and opportunity to actually solve them. This afternoon on CNBC’s “TechCheck”, he said: Libin agrees that the metaverse is gaining a lot of attention at this point in time but doesn’t expect it to last more than a year. Highlights from Libin’s interview on CNBC’s ‘TechCheck’ In a time when everyone, from investors to CEOs, is talking about the metaverse, Evernote co-founder Phil Libin says the whole idea is obviously just a gimmick.
