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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
Ollia Horton with RFI

France's international Vivatech fair shows off world pioneers of Web3 frontier

Facebook (now known as Meta) bought the Oculus virtual reality headset technology in 2014 and is now deploying it for its Horizon Worlds metaverse. AP - Marcio Jose Sanchez

The annual Vivatech trade fair is underway in Paris until Saturday. Four days of conferences and exchanges around Web3, the new generation of internet technology, touch on innovations such as cryptocurrency, blockchain, NFT and of course the latest hype known as the "metaverse".

In the history of the internet, Web 1.0 was the breakthrough for sharing basic written material online.

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