An engineer’s view of the metaverse | IEEE’s Tom Coughlin interview

Engineers are an interesting cross section of practical thinking and creative vision. When you give them a problem like the metaverse to work on, they’re going ponder it in a different way.

Science fiction writers and Hollywood creatives have done a good job painting the vision of the metaverse. But the engineers are the ones who have to think about building it. To get a flavor for the practical side of engineering the metaverse, I talked to Thomas Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates and president-elect of the IEEE engineering society.