A Law Professor Explains Why NFTs Don’t Protect Digital Ownership

In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for roughly $4 million. Normally, this would not make headlines, but in this case the land was virtual. It existed only in a metaverse platform called The Sandbox. By buying 792 non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, the firm then owned the equivalent of…

5 Major Challenges You’ll Face When Going to College in the Metaverse

Increasingly more colleges are becoming metaversities — taking their physical campuses into a virtual online world, often called the “metaverse.” One initiative has 10 U.S. universities and colleges working with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, and virtual reality company VictoryXR to create 3D online replicas — sometimes called digital twins — of their campuses…