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Executive briefing on the metaverse

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In the metaverse, users can expect to interact not only with one another, but also with digital
assets and property in digital copies of real environments and in newly imagined virtual spaces.

Today, there is a diverse ecosystem of infrastructure and applications, as well as key players
and stakeholders that are developing nascent metaverse experiences. These stakeholders are
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expected to play an important role in building the more ubiquitous metaverse of the future.
An overview of this ecosystem is provided in Figure 2. 4

Figure 2: Metaverse ecosystem diagram: 2022, Newzoo

This ecosystem is already transforming many aspects of our digital lives in the consumer sector,
industry, government or in cities. The metaverse use cases, whether single or multiple, promise
to accelerate this transition, creating new opportunities and value models.

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