Metaverse

Balancing Act has a great feature this week looking at the role of monopolies in the wholesale market and the impact this has on retail prices for several countries in Africa. We are going to build on that feature by providing some data from our Next Generation Internet Index (NGII). The principle behind the NGII is to measure a country’s progress towards the next generation Internet, or what is now commonly referred to as the metaverse. Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality will mean a more interactive and immersive experience. This requires high bandwidth and low latencies, but at […]

RIS has just launched the Metaverse Readiness Index (MRI)! Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR) will require massive increases in computational efficiency and is collectively known as the metaverse. The metaverse requires fast, symmetrical broadband, low latency in a secure way and at an affordable price. We’re excited about the MRI because it measures the gap between the current state of Internet access and a metaverse-ready future. The MRI will be an average of the 4 sub-indices. However, countries are excluded if there is missing data in one of the 4 sub-indices. The MRI is designed to be aspirational, […]