CHAPTER 10

How Will I End Up in the Metaverse?

In this chapter, we will see how the Metaverse will come to our lives from different perspectives. As an inevitable trend, the question is not whether you will get impacted by the Metaverse in a positive or negative sense, but when and how. As shown in Figure 10.1, the enabling technologies are progressively advancing to the right of the typical Gartner’s hype curve, fostering the maturity of the Metaverse as well. Let’s see the different drivers that will bring the Metaverse over all societies.

The Metaverse Economic System

The Metaverse economic system runs parallel with the real economic system, and these two systems can be regarded as a parallel economic system (Wen et al. 2013). Once the Metaverse ...

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