Metaverse Tokens Surge | KB Home Launches Metaverse Community | Linux Foundation Establishes Open Metaverse Foundation & more

Here’s your weekly roundup of what’s happened this week in a simple, easily digestible email every Friday. Let’s get started.

"The future of collaboration is the metaverse" - Dave Waters

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Aiming to educate organizations about the metaverse, The World Economic Forum has partnered with Accenture and Microsoft to launch a new metaverse platform ‘Global Collaboration Village.’

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Linux Foundation has established the Open Metaverse Foundation to create the open source software and standards for an open metaverse. OMF aims foster a community of developers, engineers, academics and thought leaders to solve challenges of portability, interoperability and scalability for interactive and immersive experiences.

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KB Home announced that it launched its first metaverse community to inspire more "exploration and engagement" among its customers. To combat increasing new-home cancellation rates, the metaverse community can help alleviate some of these issues by allowing customers to design their new home online before KB Home begins building it in the real world.

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Seoul government launches world's first public services platform in the metaverse, offering its citizens administrative services. Launching on Metaverse Seoul, the platform purports to realize the new definitions of "freedom, companionship and connection."

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Decentraland (MANA) surged as metaverse tokens became the best-performing digital assets since the start of this year, going up 38% in the past week. Other major metaverse tokens have put up impressive gains in the past week, including Sandbox’s native SAND, jumping 31.3%, while Gala Games’ GALA more than doubled.

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