Leaders on the MetaVerse 👓

GM Guys and Gals,

The World Economic Forum is the latest testing ground for the metaverse, with a virtual version of the alpine town of Davos being tested during the ongoing summit. Let's dive deep into the metaverse with Web3 geeks 🤓

WEF Entering the Metaverse 🤖

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is creating a metaverse version of its Swiss alpine home of Davos, Switzerland. The Global Collaboration Event is the latest attempt to recreate a metaverse version of a real place.

The project is being created using a more immersive version of Microsoft’s Teams software called Microsoft Mesh and will see participation from around 80 different organizations, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Meta.

The World Economic Forum, to drive participation in the project, has urged companies to set up virtual shop fronts and participate in dialogues and discussions on major ongoing issues. The virtual village has been created in partnership with Microsoft and Accenture as part of the future of public-private cooperation.

Taking Forward Collaborations 🤝

Organizers at the World Economic Forum, the world’s most prestigious economic forum, hope the metaverse version will create a year-round, online version of Davos to facilitate greater public-private cooperation. According to the official announcement, the project aims to facilitate impact, global cooperation, inclusivity, and interactivity.

Benefits For Projects

Schwab stated that he hopes the Global Collaboration Village would be beneficial for several projects, citing the example of how ocean environmentalists could create simulations of the ocean and demonstrate how to restore coral reefs or how mangroves could help fight against rising sea levels.

The WEF plans to hold many meetings in the virtual village, with Schwab hopeful that working virtually could help build rapport, trust, and ideation among people around the world.

He also stated that while there may be a learning curve for some participants, and some may be resistant to working in virtual spaces, he hoped that metaverse meetings became more common as the technology improved, helping it have a much larger impact.

Real Places In The Metaverse 🏖️

The World Economic Forum’s Global collaboration Village is the latest attempt to recreate real places in the metaverse. We have already seen previous attempts when The capital of South Korea, Seoul, announced the “Metaverse Seoul” which could feature tax services, youth counselling, and tourism hotspots. The island nation of Tuvalu also became the first country to create a digital version of itself.

According to authorities in the Polynesian country, the recreation of a digital version of the country would help it to preserve its history and culture as the nation faces an uncertain future with rising sea levels threatening its very existence.

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