At NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) today, CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage in his usual passionate, leather-clad fashion. However, this GTC keynote was actually a live demo of sorts, delivered from the simulated constructs of the metaverse. In recent years, NVIDIA as a company has not only made great strides in AI (artificial intelligence) processing engines, but has also quickly emerged as quite literally the inventors and innovators of platforms for the creation of the metaverse. The metaverse, a tech term that is getting quickly worn out, is currently an almost mystical future destination where humankind will interact, collaborate and evolve together in experiences that exist beyond our physical world. AI and the metaverse seemingly go hand-in-hand, but NVIDIA is clearly all-in on both emerging markets and their enabling technologies.