We’ve all heard of the metaverse – an immersive virtual world that’s a digital twin of the real world – or a bit like ‘climbing into the internet’, depending on who you talk to. But how How Will the Metaverse Change Our Lives?
In order to help the world understand what is it and how will it change our lives, Stanford University’s Jeremy Bailenson has talked with the World economic forum, by explaining the real potential of the metaverse.
Jeremy Bailenson is professor of communication at Stanford University and founding director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Slate, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has been researching the metaverse and virtual reality for 20 years.
To find out more about how the metaverse can be made safe, accessible and economically viable, you can watch the Davos 2023 panel session, eaturing Rwanda’s ICT Minister, Paula Ingabire, Meta CPO Chris Cox, HP chief Enrique Lores and Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, where the term ‘metaverse’ was coined.
To learn more about the possible scenarios for metaverse market growth between now and 2030, you can check the Metaverse, The land of Opportunity? graph that forecasts total addressable metaverse market, by 3 scenarios: conservative scenario, moderate scenario, and optimistic scenario.