Diana is a Senior Trend Analyst at Mintel. She investigates how cultural, lifestyle and technology shifts take shape across sectors and leverages Mintel data across trend observations. January 28th, 2022February 01st, 2022 With every form of technology there is a learning curve and adoption cycle before it becomes an everyday concept. Society is still far from a place where the term ‘metaverse’ can be brought up in conversation and not be followed by five follow-up questions.