Ledger Insights is a media partner of the Hyperledger Global Forum, which kicks off in Dublin on Monday and will also be broadcast live. Melanie Cutlan of Accenture will present a fundamental in the metaverse.

Accenture envisions the metaverse as the next generation of the Internet. Rather than a single concept, he sees the metaverse as a continuum linking the Internet of Place and the Internet of Value. And because of COVID, the company has already implemented the technology at scale.

During the pandemic, the company onboarded virtually 150,000 new team members. Rather than just using Zoom, a new Accenture employee received a laptop and an XR headset in the mail. His first experience was immersive in the virtual One Accenture Park. Then they got involved in the team…