Introduction to the Metaverse for Law

Overview

This course from blockchain experts Blocknorth, who are also closely allied with key augmented reality partners, will give you a clear understanding of the Metaverse, it’s development and its current and future potential. The course covers the building blocks of the Metaverse; business and the Metaverse; the wide uses of the technology; and a look at the possibilities for the future. It then considers the legal issues underlying the development and the future of the Metaverse.

This course builds a legal issues section on top of our original ‘Introduction to the Metaverse’ course so it does not need the original course to be completed first.

Course Contents

Unit 1: The Building Blocks of the Metaverse

  • The definition of the Metaverse
  • Technologies that make up the Metaverse
  • Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
  • Cryptocurrency, Non-fungible tokens and the Blockchain
  • 3D Reconstruction
  • Artificial Intelligence and its huge potential within the Metaverse.

Unit 2: Business and the Metaverse

  • Background to the development
  • Examples of Metaverse environments
  • Web 3.0 technology
  • How boundaries are being eroded
  • The Metaverse as a training tool
  • Customer support functionality

Unit 3: Uses of the Metaverse

  • How companies are using the Metaverse commercially
  • The growing social and media opportunities
  • How education, the workplace and gaming can all benefit
  • The almost limitless opportunities within the worlds of history, medicine, and tourism
  • How the Metaverse could interact with the military

Unit 4: Development potential of the Metaverse

  • How the software and hardware infrastructure will need to develop
  • A look at the very real privacy and security issues
  • How the future regulation of the Metaverse also needs to develop
  • Brain computer interfaces – are they moving out of science fiction?

Unit 5: Legal Issues and Challenges associated with the Metaverse

  • A reiteration of security and privacy issues with reference also to data protection.
  • A consideration of Intellectual Property and brand protection challenges with examples.
  • A look at patents and copyrights.
  • How antitrust laws could be threatened.
  • The role of Financial Technology (Fintech)
  • Mergers & Acquisitions – and the vast sums potentially involved.
  • The potential for virtual or ‘avatar’ lawyers.
  • Consideration of other user-based claims.