Courtesy of Decentraland. In this virtual real estate market, architects and 3d designers seem on a level playing field, but not everyone agrees."The metaverse is being built as we speak, rapidly.

From Minecraft to BIM, SmartPlanet's columnist C.C. Sullivan shows how virtual architecture and real architecture are getting closer together, helping us tell stories and teach the next generation.

From my home in Palo Alto, he took me on a tour of his virtual lab which looks a lot like what a real one might look like. There are posters, diagrams and pictures on the walls, books on shelves ...