The obvious question all metaverse projects have to answer is 'What are Metaverses for?'. And this question is not as easy to reply as it might seem. There are several ways to approach this question and some of these approaches are too futuristic or academic for businessmen interested in release managment. So let's stick to some applications of metaverses where actual revenue generating business cases require effective release management.
Metaverse enhanced learning experiences
There is an obvious use case in e-learning where metaverses do have added value to the learning process. For effective learning it always helps if a curriculum is interesting and memorable. But beyond the spectacularisation of content, when an image is animated, or 2D is 3D-ed, there are some training situations when an actual 3D metaverse experiance saves time and money:
real-life, loaction based safety trainings can be supported by metaverses, when it is cheaper and quicker to teach ex.: oil-rig excape-routes for future employees before they arrive to the actual rig. or when soldiers are sent into tunnels and/or urban warfare with the full knowledge of the concrete structures, entry and exit ways before they face the real-life combat.
beyond safety metaverses can help cruiser customers to find their ways around the boat to the shopping or leasure facilities.
onboarding emloyees can also learn their ways in big building complexes (ex.: industrial sites, hospital complexes, universities... etc.)
Machinery or organic bodies made as metaverses
Beyond teaching workflows of processes if a plane or a car is created as a metaverse, it is very easy to visualize certain issues, damages or possible fixing opportunities. If a human body is created as a metaverse certain scenarios can show typical illnesses, infections and their impact on different organs.
Interaction with virtual/crypto assets in the metaverse
One of the challenges crypto advocates are facing is the difficulty of making crypto assets feel real, though not being physical. Metaverses provided a great way to the experience of owning a crypto property or an NFT. Or the ability to invite others into this digital space to exhibit one's digital wealth.
All the above are everyday metaverse business cases with real revenue streams. Hence all the above business cases are sensitive to Time-to-Market and Quality the values that a professional release management system can guarantee.