In Ep. 198 of My Metaverse Minute, Kieron Allen discusses how officials in Toda, a city in Japan, have launched a Metaverse education service to combat absenteeism.

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00:28 — The Metaverse Schooling Service aims to combat absenteeism by providing students with the virtual space to conduct classes, as well as campus tours and other social and interactive spaces.

00:41 — The overall goal is to incorporate students who are absent into the physical education environment. Truancy is a problem in Japan, where 245,000 students spent at least 30 days absent from school in 2021.

01:25 — This kind of approach champions the power of virtual worlds and targets a new demographic: digital natives. Officials understand the problem at hand within the context of the people…