The accounts Deloitte, in their report on “Tech Trends 2023”, talk about the “immersive internet for the enterprise” and an end to “an ever-shrinking series of rectangular screes” rather than the metaverse, but the point is well made: we are shifting from virtual worlds for the entertainment of individuals to enterprise tools for communication, interaction and (of course, hence my interest) transactions. They also talk about web3 as means to deliver trust in “a more decentralized internet”.
Bringing these points together suggests to me that a good way to think about the metaverse is as a more secure, immersive internet.
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