When a junior manager at tech consulting firm Accenture tried to set up his first work meeting in the metaverse, it was hard to even log in. “I am totally immersed in the metaverse, I have a big headset and then I need to take off the Oculus, look on my phone for the two-factor authentication code that was sent to my phone, then memorize the number, put the headset back on and try to enter it he told me, speaking on condition of anonymity. “But when you take the Oculus off, it automatically goes to sleep, and I was trying to navigate back and forth.” She wasn’t the only one who had trouble simply accessing a lively meeting room; when the meeting had concluded, some members of the team had not yet arrived.

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