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.
Total users of selected virtual platforms worldwide as of October 2021
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Grayscale. (November 1, 2021). Total users of selected virtual platforms worldwide as of October 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 02, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1280597/global-total-users-virtual-platforms/
Grayscale. "Total users of selected virtual platforms worldwide as of October 2021." Chart. November 1, 2021. Statista. Accessed July 02, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1280597/global-total-users-virtual-platforms/
Grayscale. (2021). Total users of selected virtual platforms worldwide as of October 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 02, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1280597/global-total-users-virtual-platforms/
Grayscale. "Total Users of Selected Virtual Platforms Worldwide as of October 2021." Statista, Statista Inc., 1 Nov 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1280597/global-total-users-virtual-platforms/
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