The metaverse could offer multi-trillion-dollar opportunities for businesses in the long term, with the potential to transform many aspects of daily life. 00:00 - How the metaverse could transform our daily lives 01:22 - How filmmakers are using metaverse technology 02:30 - What is the metaverse? 04:09 - An opportunity for creative industries 05:59 - How tech titans are profiting off the metaverse 06:53 - What is Roblox? 09:51 - Gen Z: metaverse natives 10:48 - How the metaverse could help climate change responses 12:15 - What is a digital twin? 14:33 - What’s missing from the metaverse? 16:26 - How mixed reality devices are transforming the military and health care 19:41 - What’s next? Sign up to our science newsletter to keep up to date: Read more about virtual realities: Listen to our podcast about how the metaverse is going mainstream: What are the video-game industry’s metaverse ambitions? What are America’s largest technology firms investing in? Building a metaverse with Chinese characteristics: Virtual-property prices are going through the roof: Tomorrow’s soldiers will have their reality augmented: How can augmented reality help treat covid-19? The race to digitally preserve Ukraine’s buildings and monuments: