The Metaverse Overview : Vision, Technology, and Tactics | Metaverse tactics for enterprises 4. Metaverse tactics for enterprises This chapter explores the future stages of the Metaverse, major potential risks, the attitude to NFTs in China, and how companies should respond to Metaverse opportunity. 4.1 Metaverse development "blue ocean" market. Big companies The Metaverse will then enter a Defining Metaverse development are accumulating experience across symbiosis of virtualization and reality. depends on how immersive the the Metaverse, while startups thrive on People will shuttle back and forth experience is, user scale, the segmented portions of the Metaverse, between the virtual and real worlds. smartness of AI technology, and how similar to how people fed themselves Virtual humans and AI will enter many much humans rely on the virtual in the agricultural age. scenarios, interacting and coexisting world. Our predictions for Metaverse with humans. The length of this period development are based on the key This stage will only last around 10 depends on technical breakthroughs factor of "ownership of governance". years) as the public is already forming in AI. a consensus on how much value the There will be five stages in the Metaverse brings. The next stage Finally, the virtual and the real will Metaverse development: will be oligopoly after the biggest compete with each other. This will companies achieve their strategies happen after around 50 years when We are currently in the agrarian age and stop accumulating, having gained virtual humans are intelligent enough when primary applications spread the largest slice of the market. This and even surpass the average rapidly. A huge amount of new stage will last for around 20 years as intelligence of human beings, being enterprises and services are emerging, these giants build high barriers to able to compete with humans for and most of them can find their niche competition. control. because the Metaverse remains a Figure39: Development stages of the Metaverse Primitive Society Farming Stage Oligopoly Symbiosis of Virtual and Real Game of Virtual Reality ~2020 2020~2030 2031- 2050 2050 - 2070 2071~ The technologi- The primary Metaverse A few Metaverse giants Humans use the virtual world The game of the cal rudiments form lands. The appear, creating an to the same extent as they Wisdom of Virtual of the Metaverse is a blue oligopoly use the real world Humans vs Human Metaverse ocean Control of the emerge Metaverse Source: Deloitte analysis 43