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Topics: metaverse, Digital Transformation<\/p>\n

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White Paper: Understanding the Metaverse and its Benefits<\/h1>\n

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By Mayank Jain<\/p>\n

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What exactly is the metaverse?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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\u201cIf dreams could be sold, what would you buy?\u201d<\/p>\n

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A virtual world exists beyond the physical world in which humans have existed within since the beginning of time. These virtual spaces can be accessed using virtual reality headsets that bring the augmented environments into view. This virtual environment is a new place to meet people, advertise, sell products, experiment with new ideas in a safe zone. It takes the digital world another step forward.<\/p>\n

As consumers spend more time online and the hype around the metaverse continues to cascade into virtual goods, business leaders can unlock new ways of engaging with high-value younger cohorts.<\/p>\n

To capture untapped value streams, organizations are exploring the potential of non-fungible tokens, gaming, and virtual engagement \u2014 all of which offer fresh routes to creativity, community-building, and commerce.<\/p>\n

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The concept of a metaverse is not a new one<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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This is, however, a significant progression from the existing technology in many ways. Say, for example, offering sensory experiences like touch, feel, smell, etc., whereas the current technology limits only to visual and audio, and that too in a limited manner. While the buzz can partially be attributed to attention-grabbing headlines, there is a convergence of emerging technologies to serve a virtual reality.<\/p>\n

Online multi-player, role-playing worlds like the Sims or Second Life have been around for nearly 20 years, with players spending an average of 20 hours per week in these worlds. Modern equivalents like Minecraft, World of Warcraft, and Fortnite have hundreds of millions of users and huge supporting economies.<\/p>\n

There are more than 500 million monthly active users on the metaverse today, and it is expected to grow at a rate of 140 million new users per year.<\/p>\n

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Metaverse is better understood as a new channel of engagement<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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It’s hard for people who’ve lived their lives in the non-virtual world to imagine a virtual landscape with user avatars busying themselves performing activities more familiar to gamers than generations that grew up in a time when Amstrad computers were a thing. It’s difficult to visualize why it has any relevance to the real world of business we’ve lived in for generations. But it does.<\/p>\n

The evolutionary path of the digital world can itself be traced to the path followed by websites and mobile apps a few years ago. The initial days of website deployment were not taken seriously by brick-and-mortar retailers, giving rise to a new generation of retailers like Amazon. Can we expect to see the same for augmented reality?<\/p>\n

Metaverse is likely to follow a similar trend and we may see the emergence of torch-bearer meta-organizations for \u201cimmersive\/ virtual retail\u201d soon enough.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is no single virtual world but many worlds, which are taking shape to enable people to deepen and extend social interactions digitally. They represent a simulated 3D land, horizon worlds, a new virtual reality.<\/p>\n

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From a social perspective, the development of more immersive virtual experiences is helping people build communities based on shared values, and express themselves in more authentic ways.<\/p>\n

To deliver \u2018authentic\u2019, \u2018realistic\u2019, and \u2018immersive\u2019 virtual reality experiences for customers, organizations are looking to create more autonomous organizations, design more immersive experiences, and create more touch-points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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There are close to 1000 metaverses today, growing by the day<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Why is it difficult to ignore the metaverse<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Business leaders know the real world. They grew up in it. It’s stayed familiar, and easy enough to frame. Bold claims on the promise of the metaverse appear salacious and abstract to those who’ve never so much as owned a gaming console.<\/p>\n

As digital environments come of age, they are transforming from linear and transaction-focused spaces into multi-dimensional, experiential, collaborative, and completely immersive virtual worlds. Tech-savvy cohorts are spending increasing amounts of time in these spaces \u2014 from social media and gaming to virtual realities \u2014 and they are adopting multiverse identities along the way.<\/p>\n

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Sub-technologies that are playing their part<\/h3>\n

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At the vanguard, digital assets in the form of virtual fashion and NFTs are offering new ways for consumers to shop, exchange goods and inhabit new identities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hyper-interactive and creative digital environments are a natural evolution of how people use technology and reflect the ever-growing amount of time consumers spend online.<\/p>\n

In 2020, it was estimated that Gen-Z spent an average of eight hours per day online.<\/p>\n

Part of the appeal of virtual worlds is the chance to engage with others and build communities \u2014 a need that was exacerbated when global lockdowns put an end to most in-person social contact.<\/p>\n

As digital spaces become more dynamic, some consumers are participating in \u201cdigital campfires,\u201d around which they can connect with others who share their values, have conversations, tell stories, and co-create.<\/p>\n

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Digital fashion and metaverse industries<\/h3>\n

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Soaring levels of engagement have spawned a new generation of digital fashion creatives, who are pushing the limits of possibility online.<\/p>\n

Brands, meanwhile, see the emerging metaverse, in which people work, play, socialize and shop, as an opportunity to engage more deeply and creatively with their customers and unlock new value streams.<\/p>\n

There are more and more \u2018second worlds\u2019 where one can express oneself. Metaverse is becoming a big business, with funding pouring in from investors.<\/p>\n

“There is probably an underestimation of the value being attached to individuals who want to express themselves in a virtual world with a virtual product, through a virtual persona,\u201d said Gucci\u2019s chief marketing officer Robert Triefus, citing the 19 million visitors who came to the Gucci Garden within the Roblox gaming metaverse.<\/p>\n

Epic Games raised $1 billion in April 2021 to accelerate its work in building connected social experiences across a metaverse of linked games and services.<\/p>\n

Much of the excitement around virtual environments is directed toward NFTs, which have seen an explosion of interest over the past year. NFTs are unique crypto assets whose authenticity and ownership are verified on blockchain technology and are bought, sold, and exchanged in the metaverse, often with cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n

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Digital assets in the form of virtual fashion and NFTs are offering new ways for consumers to shop, exchange goods and inhabit new identities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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How can organizations step into virtual reality?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Your organization might wish to create a virtual world or create virtual spaces to improve its own customer, partner, and workforce experiences. You won’t be alone. It’s thought that nearly 50% of organizations are either building<\/em> or thinking about building<\/em> capability for metaverse within the next 2 years.<\/p>\n

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Fundamentally metaverse is offering a new playbook to organizations<\/h3>\n

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Blockchain technology is offering to build autonomous and transparent organizations with new product offerings. Immersive experiences are driving gaming, social and commerce together, and the intimately collaborative environments are creating new touch-points for the customers and for the businesses.<\/p>\n

There are multiple use cases within these business drivers that find a special value for the organizations. The burden is on the organizations to drive the right value for the cohort they serve.<\/p>\n

We are also seeing a growing role for artificial intelligence, 3D product configurations, and visualization tools amongst other technologies to take the metaverse to a whole new level. Knowledge of these complementary technologies–in addition to data engineering and data security–is proving necessary ingredients for implementation teams wishing to develop a strategy for growth in the metaverse.<\/p>\n

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Metaverse offers a new channel of engagement, as websites did<\/h3>\n

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The initial days of website deployment were not taken seriously by the brick-and-mortar retailers, and that gave rise to a new generation of retailers like eBay and Amazon. We will likely see the metaverse follow a similar trend with the emergence of \u201cimmersive retail\u201d or \u201cvirtual retail\u201d soon enough.<\/p>\n

We are now at an inflection point, where it seems that not a day goes by without a company or celebrity announcing that they are building a presence in the augmented reality. While the buzz can partially be attributed to attention-grabbing headlines, there is a convergence of emerging trends.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trends that emerged from our research:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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