What Are the Challenges to Building an Interoperable Metaverse?

An interoperable metaverse will be one without borders. 

As the lines between the real and the virtual continue to blur, the Metaverse is taking us towards a more immersive, enhanced, and realistic digital environment.
Businesses and brands are actively looking for strategies to position themselves in the Metaverse so they can take advantage of its unlimited potential. Despite this, the Metaverse still faces significant obstacles that hinder its widespread adoption, with one of the primary hurdles being a lack of interoperability.
By preventing users from freely navigating virtual worlds with uniform standards, it limits users’ access to the Metaverse and confines their movement to a single project.
To overcome this, industry stakeholders must work towards interoperability, much like how APIs enable the same for unified communications or business apps. 

Understanding What is an Interoperable Metaverse
An interoperable metaverse is essentially one without borders. In our real world, people may travel to several locations and easily transport their material possessions from one location to another. The same interoperability and consistency is desired by users inside Metaverse projects.
As a result, the interoperable metaverse will be a global network of linked systems. To enable it to function, developers will construct it on a network of public and private guidelines, norms, and regulations. Cross-chain design improves interoperability, which is a “communication connection” that enables easy information transfer.
A Metaverse initiative with interoperability features may communicate with other Metaverse projects, use their services and features, and allow cross-chain social networking, commerce, and a variety of other activities that are impossible in an ecosystem divided into separate sectors. 

Challenges to Building an interoperable Metaverse
An interoperable Metaverse has not yet materialized, and ideally, it would encourage collective experiences for everybody, but the first challenge is the widespread adoption of VR headsets. Other issues to consider are the ability to migrate user’s assets from one Metaverse to another as well as business implications.
Regarding technical issues, even though two hypothetical Metaverses use the same engine, it could be difficult to import things between them. For example, fashion designers can create virtual clothing in Metaverse A, complete with real-time clothing physics. On the other hand, Metaverse B may have completely different physics engines or appearances.

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