Nina Xiang is the founder of China Money Network, a media platform bridging the Asian and global innovation economy. Her upcoming new book Parallel Metaverses: How the US, China and the Rest of the World Are Shaping Different Virtual Worlds will be released next month.
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Children wearing virtual reality headsets play a game at a shopping mall in Shanghai on Jan. 1: there are no serious studies on how much energy will be needed to power metaverse. © VCG/Getty Images
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