Karim Nurani is an entrepreneur, investor, CSO from linqtoco-founder of the Global Investor Conference and host of the Global Investor Podcast.

The term metaverse was first coined in the 1992 novel snow shock, and the 2003 virtual world platform Second Life is often described as the first metaverse. Stephen Spielberg, in his 2018 film ready player one, further popularized the idea, and in 2022, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg further popularized the “metaverse”, going as far as changing Facebook’s name to Meta; it has become one of the most popular buzzwords in the world of technology.

What is the metaverse? It is a hypothetical version of the Internet in which one experiences a unique immersive virtual world using virtual reality and augmented reality headsets. It’s a 3D network…