CHAPTER 14

When Will the Metaverse Transform Into Reality

As we have already seen, the Metaverse is based on technologies that already exist. From a theoretical point of view, it could be a reality, although only as reduced experiments. The reason is that, even when something is feasible, there is still a need to develop an ecosystem and produce and deploy some elements at a large scale to become practical. Maybe you know how to prepare cookies, and maybe you can get the ingredients very easily, but there is a huge leap before you can build a food company that can cook and sell millions of cookies around the globe.

In this chapter, we will analyze what is needed before the Metaverse is democratized, that is, accessible to all public and widely ...

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