As Metaverse Fashion Week gears up for its second strut down the virtual runway, things look a lot different than they did a year ago, when the annual gathering of virtual and physical fashion leaders first launched in Decentraland. People aren’t buying $2.43 million digital mansions like they used to, and major metaverse developers like Meta have since shed billions of dollars in thus-far fruitless quests to build digital utopias. Most jarringly, the term “metaverse” itself, just months ago the buzz of the tech and gaming worlds, has become a dirty word best avoided.

But to those who still dream of a constellation of virtual worlds teeming with life and bursting with all manner of digital wearable accessories, fear not: the march of metaverse progress pushes on. This year’s Metaverse Fashion Week, which kicks off on Tuesday, will not only boast participation from an impressive constellation of luxury brands including Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Balmain, Coach, and Tommy Hilfiger, as well as digital fashion mainstays like DressX and The Fabricant. It will also constitute the first major multi-platform metaverse event, one which will take place across multiple, interconnected metaverse worlds.

Events at this year’s Metaverse Fashion Week (MFW) will take place in Decentraland, as they did exclusively last year, as well as in Spatial, another metaverse platform, and via Over, an decentralized augmented reality (AR) layer that displays virtual assets on top of the real world. Though technology does not yet exist to enable true interoperability—the seamless transfer of digital wearables across different metaverses—the fact that MFW’s organizers and high-profile companies involved are even attempting to conduct a live event across multiple platforms simultaneously marks a definitive step forward for proponents of an open, decentralized, and interoperable metaverse.

One day, digital fashionistas may be able to walk from one metaverse into the next with their virtual outfits perfectly intact, as seamlessly as Bugs Bunny ran from a Dali painting into Munch’s “The Scream” in “Looney Tunes: Back in Action.” While that goal may still be far-off, technically speaking, Decentraland and its partners hope that this year’s Metaverse Fashion Week will showcase the possibilities of inter-metaverse collaboration.

Launched in December, Lighthouse aims to solve a problem that has plagued metaverse platforms since their inception: despite being touted as the future of online togetherness, many metaverse platforms tend to feel, in practice, enduringly and crushingly lonely. This year, using Lighthouse, MFW visitors will be able to see where all of their contacts are located in real time within both Decentraland and Spatial, and port to any of those locations instantly. They will also be able to organize contact information gathered from other MFW attendees via a networking feature.

The existence of such a third-party service as Lighthouse will also aid metaverse platforms by providing them with new types of metrics—such as when and where users jump from one metaverse platform to another.

Even within a year, major strides have been made in the inter-metaverse collaboration and ease of use. This year’s Metaverse Fashion Week is the first major multi-platform metaverse event, where attendees will be able to navigate through multiple metaverses seamlessly using a third-party service, Lighthouse. With the help of this event, the possibilities of inter-metaverse collaboration are being showcased in the hopes of creating an open, decentralized, and interoperable metaverse.

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