Imagine a world where you can have a beachside conversation with your colleagues, take meeting notes while floating around a space station, or teleport from your London office to New York, all without stepping outside your front door. . Feeling under pressure with too many meetings scheduled today? So why not send your AI-enabled digital twin instead to take the burden off your shoulders? These examples offer just a glimpse into the future vision of work promised by “the metaverse,” a term originally coined by author Neal Stephenson in 1992 to describe a future virtual reality world. While it defies precise definition, the metaverse is generally thought of as a network of three-dimensional virtual worlds where people can interact, conduct business, and forge social connections…