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Thinking About Buying Virtual Land? Virtual Real Estate Investing in the Metaverse is the Way to Go

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11 min read The development of the metaverses has created a new real estate market. Today we will talk about which companies sell virtual real estate, what opportunities this opens up for owners, and why you should start investing in virtual real estate today. The transaction did not involve real money.

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The AR Space Race, Part VII: Microsoft

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The real world is a key part of that formula… and real-world relevance is often defined by location. That same relevance and scarcity are what drive real estate value….location, continuing here with Microsoft. As further background for Microsoft’s AR moves, CEO Satya Nadella is a verdant cloud proponent.

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Q&A With Matt Bell: How Matterport Started Capturing The Real Estate Market In VR

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Anyone involved at the intersection of real estate and Virtual Reality has probably experienced a immersive walkthrough made with Matterport technology. Matt Bell founded Matterport after the release of Microsoft Kinect and seeing it’s potential to create 3D environments to give someone that immersive feeling in a space.

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The AR Space Race, Part VII: Microsoft

ARVR

The real world is a key part of that formula… and real-world relevance is often defined by location. That same relevance and scarcity are what drive real estate value….location, continuing here with Microsoft. This ties to Microsoft’s DNA, as enterprise productivity has been its core business for 30 years.

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The Impact of the Metaverse in Banking and Finance

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The pandemic has also spurred swiss UBS bankers to experiment with virtual reality, equipping their London traders with Microsoft HoloLens smart glasses to recreate the atmosphere of a trading floor. The underlying blockchain enables users to prove ownership of the asset and develop their virtual real estate as they wish.

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Zuckerberg: Quest 3 Beats Vision Pro in ‘vast majority’ of Cases in Mixed Reality

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg got a chance to try out Apple Vision Pro, which although seven times more expensive than the company’s Quest 3 mixed reality headset, is arguably its biggest competitor right now—at least in terms of mental real estate it’s taking up. And yeah, in mobile, Apple’s closed model won.

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Microsoft XR Tools Key to FSM Sector, Infosys Says

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The ongoing Microsoft Ignite 2022 event is showcasing many of the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant’s prolific solutions from 12 to 14 October. Microsoft’s technologies provide the company with major solutions to develop customer insights on the internet of things (IoT) and mixed reality (MR), among others.