Virtual platforms gained a surge of attention in October 2021, when Facebook Inc. rebranded and restructured itself as Meta, a virtual reality company, in a pivot towards the metaverse. As of that month, Facebook was the leading virtual platform with a total of almost three billion users worldwide. In contrast, Web 3.0 virtual worlds had a grand total of 50,000 users around the globe.
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