Market Layer

A large number of companies are building the metaverse. These can be generally grouped into the following 7 conceptual categories:

1. Experiences—what people do in the metaverse
2. Discovery—how people find things to do
3. Creator Economy—how people make things in the metaverse
4. Spatial Computing—technology to render and interact with immersive space
5. Decentralization—open source, open standards and blockchain
6. Human Interface—hardware to access the metaverse
7. Infrastructure—enabling technology like networks, batteries, and semiconductors