2022 brought numerous disappointments for investors amid the worst bear market since the 2007-09 financial crisis. The metaverse and the companies working to create it were one of those big disappointments of 2022, with many metaverse stocks losing a significant portion of their value this year.

It is clear that investors lowered their expectations for the sector, but the metaverse is not going away and bright spots are likely to emerge, resulting in some degree of recovery. To that end, Microsoft (MSFT) -2.03%), Qualcomm (QCOM -2.85%)Y Alphabet (GOOGL) -2.51%) (GOOG) -2.56%) should benefit from that bounce.

Let’s find out a bit more about these three metaverse stocks and why they could be great buys now and in 2023.

1.Microsoft

Microsoft became a tech giant thanks to…