In Davos, director of Meta says that metaverse has potential for education and medicine

What is the Davos World Economic Forum? How important is it?

The Forum is an international organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, responsible for organizing annual meetings that involve the participation and collaboration of various types of organizations and world leaders, both from the public and private sectors. The meetings are mostly held in the Swiss city of Davos and, as a result, are also known as the Davos Forum. Without a doubt, it is the most important event on the world economic agenda. Many important and famous people have been there, you know? From Nelson Mandela to Bono Vox.

Trying to engage the metaverse beyond the commercial sector, Cox exposed his ideas for using virtual reality.

Metaverse gains prominence at the World Economic Forum in Davos

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is taking place in Davos, Switzerland. This year, in addition to the usual topics discussed, a specific topic gained prominence. This Wednesday (18), metaverse enthusiasts, experts and executives gathered in a conversation to discuss the scope of virtual reality in the lecture entitled “A new reality: building the metaverse”. A representative from Meta, the writer responsible for the term and researchers expressed their views on the spatialization of the internet.

Next to names like that of the CEO of HP, Enrique Lores, the writer who pioneered the term metaverse, Neal Stephenson, and the minister of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation of Rwanda, Paula Ingabire, the director of Meta said that the metaverse would have “interesting work” in areas such as education, training, medicine and design.

“Astronauts are starting to use virtual reality to train for basically immersive experiences that are difficult to study in a textbook”

Cox also said that he hopes to convince companies and entities in Davos to bet on the metaverse project as the next big thing for the internet.

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Metaverse gains prominence at the World Economic Forum in Davos

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is taking place in Davos, Switzerland. This year, in addition to the usual topics discussed, a specific topic gained prominence. This Wednesday (18), metaverse enthusiasts, experts and executives gathered in a conversation to discuss the scope of virtual reality in the lecture entitled “A new reality: building the metaverse”. A representative from Meta, the writer responsible for the term and researchers expressed their views on the spatialization of the internet.

World Economic Forum intends to launch global cooperation metaverse; understand

Using the metaverse to provoke discussions of public interest. This is the objective of the Global Collaboration Village, a virtual environment that will be presented during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Designed to be accessible to citizens from all over the world, within the space it will be possible to meet in coworking spaces, hold conferences and visit museums. The innovation will be announced between January 16th and 20th, when the event takes place.