Recently, we have been hearing more and more about the Metaverse, especially since the inventor of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that he wanted to change the name of his famous social channel to Meta. At first, this new universe seemed so strange and distant, as if it were just material for cinema or TV series.

But the Metaverse is already here, today.

Milan has shown the way to the whole of Italy towards a way of realising the Metaverse applied to art. But let's see together in detail what Metaverse is, its origins and what this extraordinary Milanese artistic project consists of; and finally, let's peek together through the blanket of reality, towards a possible future (not so far) in which you and your avatar will wake up and face a "normal" day in the Metaverse.