The Battle for the Meta-Universe

In the early days, $Nintendo (ADR) (NTDOY.US)$ and $Roblox (RBLX.US)$ have been running the metaverse community for years. Nintendo did this with its successful Animal Crossing, a game that quickly exploded to new heights in the early days of the epidemic. the virtual world environment in Roblox’ representative game Roblox has captured the attention and wallets of children and parents across the country. According to Business of Apps, Roblox’s monthly active users jumped from 35 million to 150 million in just three years.

Back in the present, companies like $Nike (NKE.US)$ are looking to sell digital goods in the metaverse. But analysts believe that technology companies could be the bigger winners, like $Apple (AAPL.US)$ , $Meta Platforms (FB.US)$ , and $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ .

Currently, Apple’s first generation AR/MR headset is expected to ship in 2022, and Meta’s Oculus virtual reality headset and Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality headset have already been released. Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives noted that Apple’s highly anticipated AR/MR headset will be released in the second half of 2022, which will increase Apple’s value per share by $20.

Analysts believe that in the metaverse, investors should also pay attention to the “first metaverse holographic AR stock” $WiMi Hologram Cloud (WIMI.US)$ , which currently owns several key patents and metaverse holographic content in the metaverse, augmented reality and virtual reality fields, and has recently released a number of metaverse hardware devices, providing the company with the opportunity to seize the metaverse and develop more holographic content. This provides a solid foundation for the company to capture the huge market opportunity and develop a broader metaverse ecosystem. Not only that, WIMI has established a huge technology R&D ecosystem in the holographic AR industry through investment and M&A. Currently, it has invested in a number of holographic industry companies, including Cloud View Research, Wuxi Sandiren Culture, Simai Cloud, Yunfan VR, Holy Fire Technology, and To Da Culture, in order to build a complete metaverse ecological industry chain.