The Metaverse Overview : Vision, Technology, and Tactics | Preface Figure1: Enterprises entering the Metaverse in 2021 2021.03 Roblox, one of the world’s largest interactive communities and a massively multiplayer game creation platform, was listed on the New York Stock Exchange and mentioned the Metaverse in its prospectus, known as “the first stock of the Metaverse”. 2021.04 ByteDance invested 100 million RMB in a Metaverse company Daimaqiankun, whose main products include youth social networking and UGC platform REWORLD 2021.08 On the VR sub-venue of ByteDance acquired Facebook: VR meeting NVIDIA announced that Baidu World Congress, VR startup Pico, which software Horizon Omniverse, the world’s first Xirang, virtual space price is estimated to Workrooms allows users simulation and collabora- multi-person interactive be at the $1 billion to conduct online VR tion platform, provides the platform, allows people level meetings as “digital foundation for the who cannot be physically people” Metaverse and will be present to experience the available to millions of new virtual space of this users. technology banquet 2021.09 Tencent registered Metaverse-related trademarks 2021.11 Facebook rename to Meta Microsoft announced that it will introduce elements of the metaverse into its chat and meeting application Microsoft Teams, when the MR (mixed reality) platform Microsoft Mesh will be integrated into Microsoft Teams. Through this feature, users will be able to meet and interact in the form of virtual avatars. Source: Public information, Deloitte analysis 05