Owning bits of the Metaverse: Why riding a blockchain between virtual worlds will require a crypto wallet
By Rabindra Ratan, Associate Professor of Media and Information, Michigan State University; and Dar Meshi, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University For people who comprehend what the metaverse is, they think it will be a bunch of interconnected virtual spaces, the world wide web but accessed through virtual reality. This is largely correct, but there is also a fundamental and slightly more cryptic side to the metaverse that will set it apart from today’s internet: the blockchain. In the beginning, Web 1.0 was the information superhighway of connected computers and servers that you could search,...
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