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Shaping a Shared Future - Making the Metaverse

World Economic Forum via YouTube

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Explore the future of extended reality (XR) in this 48-minute Davos conference talk from the World Economic Forum. Delve into the principles necessary for building safe, interoperable, inclusive, and accessible metaverse environments for consumers and businesses. Examine the potential growth trajectory of the XR ecosystem, discuss governance and risk management in virtual worlds, and consider the implications for inequality, anonymity, and collective creativity. Learn about the challenges and opportunities presented by the metaverse, including issues of interoperability, training, and problem-solving in virtual spaces. Gain insights from industry leaders on shaping a shared digital future and understand the role of international cooperation in developing these emerging technologies.

Syllabus

Introduction
What is the Metaverse
What does the Metaverse mean
The next Metaverse
Interoperability
Creating an interoperable world
Will WEF live in the metaverse
Governance in the metaverse
Risks in the metaverse
Is the US going to be the arbiter
New set of problems
Models
Inequality
Anonymousness
Training in Metaverse
Unleashing Collective Creativity
Question Time

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World Economic Forum

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