whoa this is really cool come here a minute you gotta try this the metaverse is coming and in
this video i'm sharing five stocks to consider buying to get in early on the metaverse future
but let's start off first with what exactly is the metaverse believe it or not the term metaverse was
originally coined in neil stephenson's 1992 novel snow crash in it he talks about the metaverse as a
shared imaginary place that's made available to the public throughout the world via fiber optic
network what can happen then at that point is it's projected onto virtual reality goggles and in it
the developers can create buildings parks signs and everything in between that doesn't always
exist in reality but now what was a fiction book about the metaverse is actually becoming
real thanks to none other than facebook recently mark zuckerberg put out an announcement that he's
changing the parent company name facebook to meta and not only that the stock ticker will change
from fb to mvrs and that takes place on december 1st 2021. now mark then also put out a video
explaining what exactly meta is and what he believes the metaverse will be that changes the
way we interact with the digital world through virtual and augmented reality so what's really
cool is facebook is spending five billion dollars per year on the metaverse and the enhancement of
augmented reality and it actually all started back in 2014 when they acquired oculus for 2 billion
and that is quite a bit of money but as you can see it shows that facebook is all in on
the metaverse development metaverse is essentially where the digital world meets the physical world
and mark zuckerberg has even announced in prior interviews that this could replace the need for
tvs computers even tablets well actually i still need that and with this development we're not
talking about the large goofy headsets that you've seen in virtual reality zuckerberg envisioned
something as sleek as glasses to transport you to the metaverse and i honestly i think this is just
as exciting as the start of the computer and the internet this is like the new chapter into
the technology that we live in in this awesome world so we're going to talk about what stocks
you should get in on early and do your research on that can help bridge you into the metaverse oh and
if you're interested in cryptocurrency which is also involved in the metaverse i can do another
video on that just comment down below and let me know that you're interested in that as well but
today's video is all about the stocks and this stock list is beyond of course facebook but this
includes the supporting companies that help bridge that gap to the metaverse that can either be
content creation or infrastructure and you can invest in either one of them or both i also think
it's important to note really quick that this is not a sponsored video nobody has paid me to do
this and also as a disclaimer i'm not invested in every single stock that i'm mentioning in today's
video that said i am doing my research and may buy in in the future you may also notice as you
do your research that some of these companies might have a lot of revenue but their profit
is pretty darn stinky and the reason for that is they're reinvesting a lot of their profits
into research and development so these are fairly new this is kind of getting in early and the goal
would be a long-term hold because the metaverse could be 5 10 even 15 years away from today now
let's start with the first option and the first option is actually pretty easy let's say you don't
want to get involved in these individual stocks you want to make it easy well there's actually an
etf that covers it all ticker symbol m-e-t-a how easy is that to remember this etf is managed by
round hill ball and focuses on investing on both sides of the metaverse as of the recording of this
video the etf goes for 15.93 per share and has a total of 43 holdings now this etf does come with
a rather high expense ratio of 0.75 percent but if you want a one-stop shop to buy all the different
holdings within the metaverse this could be an opportunity to look into you could also hop over
to seekingalpha.com type in meta look at their holdings and then you can decide and pick and
choose the individual stocks that they hold and then individually invest in them if you wish to
do so now this etf is a little bit new it was only listed in june 2021 so it's kind of unclear as to
what's going to happen in the future how this type of etf will weather the storms of the stock market
but it's definitely worth at least checking out and keeping on your watch list now the second
option on the list is a stock that has to do with haptic feedback you may have already experienced
this technology if you played on a game console and felt the rumble or some type of haptic
feedback based on the experience you're having in the game the company name is immersioncorp
and it's under ticker symbol immr at this time the stock is relatively inexpensive at 7.34
cents per share in the future having digital touch response systems will make the metaverse feel even
more real especially with hologram experiences you can think of this particular company in stock as
the infrastructure behind the metaverse and that leads us to the next one and next up on deck is
the company matterport ticker symbol mttr matterport is the leading digital transformation
of the physical world what they do is they have groundbreaking spatial computing platforms that
turns buildings into data and that makes every space more valuable and accessible their primary
focus right now is helpful to realtors who can use matterport's models to showcase properties for
clients without ever stepping foot into any house or building now within the metaverse the need to
capture almost every physical aspect of the real world will be a huge challenge having matterport
could support the metaverse significantly as it is currently dominating the 3d capturing environment
in the next 10 years matterport could be a leading piece of the infrastructure behind building
the metaverse and even better yet if you look at this article from june 30th 2021 you can
see that there's already talks in partnership between facebook and matterport to collaborate
to release the world's largest data set of 3d spaces this article goes on to talk about
helping robots better understand and interact with the physical world this is only the beginning of
massive augmented reality now that brings us to our fourth stock on the list and that's unity
software ticker symbol you unity software provides 2d and 3d gaming development that allows gamers to
create games on a variety of platforms including pc macs and gaming consoles their goal is
lowering the barrier to entry to creating these visual experiences this lowers the need to code
just like shopify lowers the barrier to entry and creating online businesses now right now unity
supports large gaming companies who need a large studio all the way down to the individual who's
just trying to start a new app development on your phone unity's role could help with
creating more metaverse options over the last 10 years global gaming revenue has shifted to
in-game purchases check this out in 2010 in-game purchases only made up about 20
of the global gaming revenue but in the last 10 years that has grown and shifted to 75
the more in-game experiences the more integrated our world becomes the more we get to the next
level of technology similar to unity our final stock is nvidia their ticker symbol nvda now i
think right now the stock price is up quite a bit based on the recent mark zuckerberg news so make
sure you do some research to be sure you aren't overpaying currently for this stock but nvidia
has recently created omniverse now omniverse has been in development for a while which has a goal
to merge the 3d worlds with a common way for all different types of applications to work together
and a common way for people to collaborate whether they are across the room or across the globe in
december 2020 they launched the beta of omniverse now omniverse uses a technology called usd
it's called universal scene description this technology was actually first developed by pixar
and it allows developers to interact in real time with automated material conversion so to make this
make sense let's say you and i we're creating some software or some type of immersive environment
you're creating it in a program called sketchup and let's say i'm doodling around with adobe
photoshop and even more cooler than that is that omniverse right now is allowing companies to make
decisions before they put them into action so for example bmw may want to make a brand new car that
we've never seen before but in order to do this there are a lot of changes that need to happen
in their factory now if they go about and they do this in the physical environment they could easily
mess it up and when they mess it up guess what that means a lot of cost a lot of pain and a
lot of agony for bmw but now with omniverse what they're able to do is have a digital platform to
test out changes and get a real-time understanding of how their factory would work or not work
using the models within the omniverse i don't know about you but this stuff is pretty exciting to be
in the dawn of something new that's coming and if you think about it this is an opportunity to
buy in on a long hold long-term game for these particular stocks you're not going to get rich
overnight on these these are the long-term holds but with this technology just imagine
what can happen i can imagine a day maybe you and i will sit down and instead of this youtube video
we'll be actually sitting in a youtube metaverse environment having a cup of coffee and talking
about stocks but until that happens here's another video you can watch until we wait on the metaverse