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And the company "Ribablas Rilm" in New York this week that it had spent a record amount of $ 4.3 million to buy land via "The Sandbox", a platform that allows the entry of a virtual world in which the participants can chat, play and even in concerts.
On the rival site "Distralland", the Canadian company "Tuckens.com" specialized in cryptocurrencies in November spent a property.
Days before that, the small Caribbean State of Barbados announced that it intends to create an embassy in metaphors, a network of interconnected virtual spaces that are sometimes described as the future of the Internet.
The interest in metaphors has risen since last October after the "Facebook" decision that made this idea its new project, and the group went further by launching a "dead" name on its mother company.
The technological advisor to companies that wanted to enter Metaavir Cathy Halle noted that the strategic transformation point "allowed millions of people to discover the term much faster" than she expected.
The Dap Currency Database showed that more than $ 100 million spent last week on real estate purchases through the four main metaphysics sites, "The Sandbox", "Disletrand", "Createfo Foxs" and "Somanum Spice".
Halak said that the great activity in the market in which the owners, tenants and real estate developers interact is not a surprise.
"They translate into the virtual world" what they master well "in the real world.
Halack explained that these sites need some time to become a real metaphystere that allows users to explore parallel worlds through virtual reality helmets, but digital properties are now financial assets, such as real real estate themselves.
"It can be built, leased, or sold," she added.
Totkins.com has an important plot of land via "Dysterland" in the Fashion Street neighborhood, the platform intends to turn it into a destination for the virtual stores of luxury groups.
"If I had not conducted research, I discovered that it was high -value property, it would have seen it completely crazy," said Andrew Kegel, president of Tuckins.com,.
Kegel, who worked for 20 years as a bank specialized in investing in the real estate sector, said that virtual lands constitute a similar opportunity for the commodities of the real world, as it is located in a modern and crowded neighborhood.
He explained that "places for advertising and events will meet people," pointing to a modern music festival that attracted 50 thousand visitors via "Decalland".
Luxury brands have already started entering the world of Metaavirus, as a "Gucci" handbag was sold, for example, on the "Rublix" platform at more than the price of its material copy.Kegel hopes that the Fashion Street neighborhood will become an equivalent to the "Fifth Avenue" street (the fifth avenue) in New York.
As for how to achieve income, it can be "simple, such as having an advertising plate, or complicated such as having a store with a real employee," he explained.
"The customer can enter the store with its symbolic image (Avatar), and take a look at 3D models for shoes that he can carry with his hands, and can ask questions" to the seller.
A real estate developer sparked attention in 2006 when she sold land for a million dollars in the virtual world of "Square Live", a pioneering location in the field of metaphors.
And "Square Live" is still working, but its new competitors are indicating one major difference.
On the "Desserand", all purchases, whether they are related to real estate or virtual artworks, occur through the technique of non -replaceable codes (NFT).
Some Internet users spent tens of thousands of dollars on these digital things, making this concept raised at the same time enthusiasm and suspicion.
Kegel expected that digital ownership will become prevalent in the coming years thanks to the technology of the "Blockchain" chain of digital transactions, which guarantee the safety and transparency of transactions.
"I can see the history of the angel, the cost of the offered commodity and how it moves from person to person," he said.
However, the investment involves risks, the most prominent of which is the fluctuation of the value of encrypted currencies used to purchase the "NFT" goods.
Although the virtual concerts on "Roblix" or "Fortnite" attracted tens of millions of curious people, the scarcity of data on metaphors indicates that the use of their specialized sites, including "Desptrand", is very far from existing social networks such as "Facebook" or "Instagram. ”
Consequently, the value of real estate investments in metaphors will depend on the number of people visiting these sites.
"I know this might seem a little strange (...) but there is a vision behind all of this," Kegel said.