By Immanuel J Kingsley, Metaverse CTO and Innovation Lab Director, Hexaware Technologies

The Metaverse, often referred to as the future of the Internet, is seeing unprecedented attention, debate, and possibly investment. A management consulting firm predicts that the impact of the Metaverse economy may reach $5 trillion by 2030. Individual technologies within the Metaverse are also gaining momentum. According to an analyst firm, the enterprise digital twin market is assumed to be $183 billion by 2031. However, before the estimates take on a definitive structure, let us understand the indicators of this future in a related context.

Without a doubt, the pandemic introduced one of the most crucial endorsements of virtual connectivity. CIOs were forced to review their…