The metaverse became a hot topic last year as speculative investors cheered the possible creation of a sprawling virtual reality world backed by cryptocurrency and decentralized applications. But over the past year, that enthusiasm has waned as high-profile efforts like metaplatforms‘Horizon Worlds and decentraland he spluttered.

Rising interest rates and other macroeconomic headwinds led investors to more conservative investments, and the market seemingly lost its appetite for all metaverse-related stocks. Despite that downturn, investors should still consider buying these three stocks that provide limited exposure to the metaverse within their largest deals.

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1.Autodesk

autodesk (ADSK -0.88%) is best known for his computer-aided AutoCAD…