Report cover image

Strategic Intelligence: The Metaverse

Publisher GlobalData
Published Oct 20, 2025
Length 76 Pages
SKU # GBDT20535767

Description

Strategic Intelligence: The Metaverse

Summary

The metaverse is a virtual world where users share experiences and interact in real-time within simulated scenarios. GlobalData estimates the metaverse economy will be worth $155 billion by 2030, up from $40 billion in 2024. This growth will be driven by advancements in underlying technologies like augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), and digital twins.

Key Highlights
  • The metaverse, hailed as the future of technology in 2021, has collapsed under the weight of its own hype. Immature technologies, a lack of interoperability, high costs, poor user experience, and limited real-world utility have contributed to this decline. Major tech players like Meta, Microsoft, and Tencent are scaling back or shuttering their metaverse investments. While underlying technologies like AR, AI, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain will continue to evolve, the grand vision of a fully immersive platform is on ice.
  • The metaverse is entering a long period of recalibration. Its future will be less about grandiose, all-encompassing virtual worlds and more about subtle, practical integrations of immersive technologies into real-world applications. This will require a slower, pragmatic, and financially cautious approach over the next five to 10 years. The focus will be on narrower applications and sector-specific use cases rather than the sweeping, transformative consumer-focused technology once envisioned.
Scope
  • This report provides an overview of the metaverse theme.
  • It identifies the key trends impacting growth of the theme over the next 12 to 24 months, split into three categories: technology trends, macroeconomic trends, and regulatory trends.
  • The detailed value chain is split into four layers: foundation, tools, user interfaces, and experience.
Reasons to Buy
  • The metaverse theme involves companies from all technology sectors, including semiconductors, component makers, application software, and advertising. Some companies rushed to take early positions in the metaverse during 2021 and 2022, while others have yet to enter it. This report identifies companies that are well-positioned to benefit from the metaverse over the next five years.

Table of Contents

76 Pages
Executive Summary
Players
Technology Briefing
What is the metaverse?
Who is driving the metaverse?
What brought the metaverse into the spotlight?
Who is developing the metaverse?
What are the different types of metaverse?
What is Web3?
Where is the metaverse today?
The future of the metaverse
Trends
Technology trends
Macroeconomic trends
Regulatory trends
Industry Analysis
Market size and growth forecasts
Use cases
Retail
Financial services
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Timeline
Value Chain
Foundation layer
Semiconductors
Components
Connectivity
Data management
Blockchain
Tools layer
Artificial intelligence
Payment platforms
Adtech
User interface layer
Experience layer
Companies
Sector Scorecards
Gaming sector scorecard
Who’s who
Thematic screen
Valuation screen
Risk screen
Social media sector scorecard
Who’s who
Thematic screen
Valuation screen
Risk screen
Application software sector scorecard
Who’s who
Thematic screen
Valuation screen
Risk screen
Glossary
Further Reading
GlobalData reports
Our Thematic Research Methodology
About GlobalData
Contact Us
List of Tables
Table 1: Technology trends
Table 2: Macroeconomic trends
Table 3: Regulatory trends
Table 4: Companies
Table 5: Glossary
Table 6: GlobalData reports
List of Figures
Figure 1: Who are the leading players in the metaverse theme, and where do they sit in the value chain?
Figure 2: The metaverse is still largely conceptual
Figure 3: Use cases for NFTs in the metaverse
Figure 4: Two types of companies are developing the metaverse
Figure 5: There are three types of metaverse
Figure 6: How has the internet evolved?
Figure 7: The difference between the metaverse and Web3
Figure 8: The metaverse will generate $155 billion in revenue by 2030
Figure 9: The retail metaverse
Figure 10: The financial services metaverse
Figure 11: The healthcare metaverse
Figure 12: The manufacturing metaverse
Figure 13: The metaverse story
Figure 14: The metaverse value chain
Figure 15: The metaverse value chain - Foundation layer: semiconductors
Figure 16: The metaverse value chain - Foundation layer: components
Figure 17: The metaverse value chain - Foundation layer: connectivity
Figure 18: The metaverse value chain - Foundation layer: data management
Figure 19: The metaverse value chain - Foundation layer: blockchain
Figure 20: The metaverse value chain - Tools layer: artificial intelligence
Figure 21: Applications of generative AI in the metaverse
Figure 22: The metaverse value chain - Tools layer: payment platforms
Figure 23: The metaverse value chain - Tools layer: adtech
Figure 24: The metaverse value chain - User interface layer
Figure 25: The metaverse value chain - Experience layer
Figure 26: Who does what in the gaming space?
Figure 27: Thematic screen - Gaming sector scorecard
Figure 28: Valuation screen - Gaming sector scorecard
Figure 29: Risk screen - Gaming sector scorecard
Figure 30: Who does what in the social media space?
Figure 31: Thematic screen - Social media sector scorecard
Figure 32: Valuation screen - Social media sector scorecard
Figure 33: Risk screen - Social media sector scorecard
Figure 34: Who does wht in the application software space?
Figure 35: Thematic screen - Application software sector scorecard
Figure 36: Valuation screen - Application software sector scorecard
Figure 37: Risk screen - Application software sector scorecard
Figure 38: Our five-step approach for generating a sector scorecard

Search Inside Report

Pricing

Currency Rates
How Do Licenses Work?

How Do Licenses Work?

The primary function of a report license is to define how many people within a company are authorized to use the purchased report. This is separate to how a report might be delivered. Unless specifically identified otherwise, the purchase option is Single User. Below is a helpful description of that license, along with a sampling of others most commonly offered.

  • This license allows only one user to have access to and to use/read the report. It is not one user at a time or one user group; it is an individual who will be reading and utilizing the report.

  • This license allows for the entire purchasing company to read and use the report. This is the license level that would allow for a report to be placed on an internal company shared drive for access by all employees of that direct company. This license does not extend to parent or sister company use.

  • This license is designed to allow an entire department within a company full access to a report. The departmental license is a great option for companies that have more than one location and the department is spread out all over the country/world

  • This license is for companies that have one location where they want the report to be accessible by all employees within that physical location.

  • This is the most flexible of the licensing options. Some publishers will allow you to get a license for a preset number of people (typically 5). These licenses are ideal for small work groups.

License options are at the discretion of each publisher. As such, not all licenses indicated above are available for every product. If you are uncertain of the best license for your needs or would like a license that is not proactively available, please contact us and we will be happy to assist.

Request A Sample
Head shot

Questions or Comments?

Our team has the ability to search within reports to verify it suits your needs. We can also help maximize your budget by finding sections of reports you can purchase.
Chat Now
Contact Us