Users can enter the digital megacity for trading crypto tokens and buying real estate online.

Online services around us have transformed human interaction in professional as well as personal realms with social media taking over communication, e-commerce doubling up as a way to secure essentials, and fintech offering a medium for everything from banking to investments. As digital platforms surround us in real life, the pandemic has opened doors to a separate online realm where video conferencing and data sharing tools have replaced in person meetings so that people could attend seminars, virtual events and communicate with coworkers.

At the same time virtual reality has transformed entertainment by creating a separate ecosystem for gaming, which is now being used to create immersive worlds that people could enter by wearing headsets, and by creating digital avatars of themselves to meet others in the online sphere. Following the launch of a virtual reality gaming experience at a mall in Dubai last year, the city has now been replicated to create a virtual world using real world maps to bring iconic locations to life and set the stage for diverse tasks.

Once users enter the digital twin of the Middle Easter megacity, they can trade crypto tokens or even deal in digital real estate by taking a closer look at properties in Dubai,thanks to high quality visuals which capture the aesthetics and geometry of each location with precision. People can enter the metaverse in two different sessions and collect 1000 hexes at a time, with each of them costing 3000 MVP coins in the virtual realm.

The introduction of this online world follows the launch of virtual art galleries where people could check out digital artworks and attend concerts remotely as part of the new normal. Over the past few months, medtech has also enabled surgeons to collaborate on procedures from different parts of the world using virtual reality to share their knowhow in real-time.