When it comes to emerging (and overhyped) concepts like the metaverse, there is a treasure trove of technologies and experiences that have scarcely even been conceived yet, but will be necessary to deliver on the ambitious promises of the pioneers. This is why the term content rendering network (CRN), coined by UK-based video compression specialist V-Nova, has been getting positive feedback from some leading metaverse players, according to reports. The CRNs of the future will be the metaverse equivalent of content delivery networks (CDNs), according to a feature-length blog post by V-Nova, which predicts that today’s CDNs will evolve naturally into CRNs over time. This will happen as rendering servers are organized in a dynamic hierarchy of nodes, similar to the way…