How will the metaverse emerge? Will it be open or closed, and how will that be determined? It's clear that all parties will need to focus on interoperability to give the metaverse more utility and meaning. How do you improve the fidelity of the experience of being in the metaverse? This panel will address the challenges in getting the metaverse’s leading companies to cooperate on their common interests in building a metaverse where both startups and incumbents can thrive. 

The metaverse presents an enormous opportunity for enterprises to transform their businesses. With advances in 3D and simulation technology, individual artists, collaborative teams, and even AI agents can share creations and build digital assets and environments that all companies will need to make the metaverse seem real. We’ll look at all the ways that virtual worlds can prove useful as companies big and small plant their stakes in the emerging landscape. We can explore whether games and industrial simulations will help each other out in fleshing out the realized vision of the metaverse beyond social gatherings.