This site may earn affiliate commissions from links on this page. Terms of use.

(Image: Interpol)you can do now much in the metaverse. Although the technology has only been around for a year or two, you can already get married, attend real-life celebrity concerts, and work at Chipotle simply by putting on a virtual reality (VR) headset. As with any other space online, you can also commit crimes, a realization that inspired the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to start the first global police force for the metaverse.

At a surprise session of Interpol’s 90th General Assembly in New Delhi, India, last week, the international law enforcement agency unveiled the Interpol Metaverse, a virtual reality space in which police officers can interact and exchange information…