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The opportunities and risks of Metaverse for small businesses

Published 07/22/2022, 10:49 AM
Updated 07/24/2022, 01:00 PM
The opportunities and risks of Metaverse for small businesses
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The Metaverse has been become one of the biggest buzzwords in the blockchain and crypto, as it promises to provide a more immersive, interactive and collaborative experience than what the internet has accomplished to date.

This promise of a new world has huge enterprises like Meta (formally known as Facebook (NASDAQ:META)) investing huge sums in the budding space. When most hear the name Metaverse, their mind wanders to a few things: an avenue for global conglomerates to showcase their technology-forward bent, an esoteric product for a selected few to display nonfungible tokens (NFTs) or a new front in gaming development. However, a deep dive into Metaverse reveals a whole new world, a world full of new opportunities and risks for both consumers and businesses.

  1. Infrastructure: This layer is the semiconductors, material science, cloud computing and telecommunications networks that enable the construction of the layers over it.
  2. Human interface: The human interface layer refers to the hardware that will be used to access the metaverse. This includes everything from mobile devices to VR headsets.
  3. Decentralization: Build everything on a permissionless, distributed and democratized structure.
  4. Spatial computing: This layer refers to the software that brings objects into 3D and allows the hardware interface to interact with them.
  5. Creator economy: Make it easier for creators to make Metaverse projects and monetize them.
  6. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD): Ways to discover the experience.
  7. Experience: Users can engage with games, social experiences, live music and so on.

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