Start and play: Metaverse and games when worlds collide and the law searches for answers

Abstract

The word metaverse revives the deepest questions of the human being in relation to the technological world. Since the big question “Where did we come from’ and its best friend ‘Are we alone or not in the universe’ we haven’t questioned anything as much as what the metaverse is. In the legal field, some jurists and researchers wonder about the role that Law can play in the new world, seeking at all times (or in large part) the inclusion of the State and the imposition of rules on a multiverse that is managed in based on governance and that is as old as the internet, and whose progress has been governed to a large extent by the development of the world of video games rather than by that of social networks. It is here where we will analyze whether or not Law as we know it can be part of the next human evolution (in theory) and part of our universal history.