Metaverse — The Next Generation of the Internet

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2022

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This report is a great collection of predictions and analysis from founders, VCs, accelerators and technologists on what they are seeing, and what they hope to see in the Metaverse in future. Including:

– 22 pages of Metaverse 101
– Metaverse ‘as a Service’
– Metaverse infrastructure 
– The role of digital assets and NFTs
– Money and Decentralised Finance in the Metaverse
– Regulation 
– Socio-political considerations 
– And a bunch of ‘quick take’ executive summary snippets along the way

Why Metaverse?

The Metaverse is “a digital space inhabited by digital representations of people and things.” — Microsoft

“Just like in 1993 we couldn’t tell how big (the internet) was and what it was exactly, this thing we are calling the Metaverse is a continuation of that…it is going to be bigger than anything we have ever known.” — Rev Lebaredian, Vice President, Simulation Technology at NVIDIA

Mike Wadhera, the founder of Teleport, noted as early as 2016 that the “Information Age” was transitioning into the “Experience Age.” The Metaverse represents one compelling vision of this shift toward experiences. Although it is often associated with immersive Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), VR/AR is not essential.

The Metaverse may be the next generation of the internet. It could further integrate our lives into digital platforms. The Metaverse would combine the physical and digital world in an immersive manner, possibly intermediated via virtual and augmented reality. And it raises questions around technology, business models, and society more broadly.

We are in the early days of the journey into the Metaverse economy. Much needs to be built. We discuss all these themes over the course of this report — with the help of colleagues and leading external industry experts.

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