The metaverse—a virtual space where users can interact with each other and digital objects without regard to geographical and territorial boundaries—is challenging all norms and conventions when it ...

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The terms of service for each metaverse platform are centralized and are under the complete control of a single company—a major problem for legal ownership. But did ...

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Adrian Cheng, CEO of Hong Kong real estate giant New World Development, is venturing into the metaverse with the development of virtual land on blockchain gaming platform the Sandbox. The Sandbox is a ...

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A virtual real estate investment firm has a new platform record for the most expensive digital land plot in Decentraland’s metaverse after spending $913,000 on 259 parcels. A virtual plot of real ...

Accounting firms are following the example set by other companies to launch operations in the metaverse, a digital space where players simulate real-life activities from shopping to gaming to business ...

The number of virtual real estate deals is rising as quickly as their real-world value. Republic Realm, an investor and developer of virtual land, paid $4.3 million on Tuesday for property in The ...