It looks like the metaverse will change the way we work and play. Within it, you can make friends, design fashion, buy real estate, attend events, create and sell digital art, and earn money. Some believe that the true metaverse, which is years away, will revolutionize the internet as we know it now, and what was once a mere buzzword is becoming a roar.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckeberg has gone so far as to change the name of his company. Microsoft spent $68.7 billion acquiring Activision Blizzard so it could expand its virtual foothold in the metaverse. And Goldman Sachs believes the metaverse is an “$8 trillion market opportunity,” which is about the size of the combined GDP of Japan and Germany.

So it is not so surprising that experts say that companies, large and…