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title: "Is the metaverse real?"  
description: "Is the metaverse real?"  
author: "Sandra Emily"  
published: 2022-05-19  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97507/is-the-metaverse-real  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "metaverse"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Is the metaverse real?

Is the [metaverse](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/302553/navigating-virtual-communities-in-the-metaverse-building-social-connections) real?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- The **metaverse** is a virtual-reality environment described as a planet-encircling market where virtual real estate may be purchased and sold, and where VR goggle-wearing users inhabit 3D avatars in which they have complete control over their appearance.
- These three features — a virtual reality interface, digital ownership, and avatars — are still prominent in modern metaverse concepts.
- However, none of these are necessary to the concept. In its broadest sense, the metaverse is a graphically rich virtual arena with a degree of realism in which people can work, play, shop, socialise — in other words, do the things that people prefer to do together in real life (or, perhaps more to the point, on the internet).

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