Phoenix Rising in the Metaverse

The image, "Phoenix Rising in the Metaverse" depicts of the recent attention on the Metaverse. The term was first used in Neil Stevenson's 1992 novel, "Snow Crash". The Metaverse has been defined as a network of interconnected virtual worlds. Since the first virtual world, numerous individuals and groups have been building, working, teaching, and socializing in the Metaverse with little or no fanfare from the masses. The recent attention on the Metaverse is like an emerging phoenix. The image was created with the assistance of artificial intelligence, VQGAN+CLIP (machine learning algorithms), and text prompts. The image may be interpreted differently through the eyes and imagination of the viewers.