LD Salmanson, CEO of real estate data firm Cherre, has nothing against the virtual world and what it could offer.
"I'm a gamer," he tells GlobeSt.com. "I was a professional gamer for a little while. I'm appreciable of the fact that there can be meaningful social interactions on some of these platforms. I can buy into that looking at the longer horizon. But I feel that most of the people talking about the metaverse are trying to make money off it."
And not money the old-fashioned way, by offering something people want and need. More like a sales pitch that's a little too fast and loose. Often it expands beyond the metaverse concept and into something called Web3, in which everything is supposed to be decentralized and running on the blockchain technology that is beyond cryptocurrencies, among other applications.
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