You can already sell virtual items in the metaverse, but the commissions are high

Making a living in the metaverse will also be possible, at least in

The company, formerly known as Facebook, is going to allow users of its virtual universe, Horizon Worlds, to sell virtual objects created by themselves.

The tool will initially be limited to a few users, but the company hopes to increase the number in the coming months.

, from jewelry to clothing or decoration objects. They will also be able to charge for access to restricted areas within their own virtual spaces.

"We want there to be many virtual worlds in Horizon and to achieve this, the creators of those worlds need

," explained Mark Zuckerberg in a virtual meeting within Horizon with users.

For sellers who aspire to make a living creating virtual items, however, commissions will be high.

Quite.

That means that if a user of Horizon Worlds, for example, sells a virtual item through stores like the Quest Store, almost half of the price will be paid to the different intermediaries.

The commission is also significant, because Meta has complained on many occasions about how high the commissions are in application stores such as those of

.

According to the company, these commissions, which range between 15 and 30 percent of the price of an app, are predatory and have significantly slowed down innovation.

At the moment the market for these virtual objects is going to be small.

The tool is free but it is necessary to have a Meta (Facebook) account and an Oculus Quest virtual reality headset, also manufactured by Zuckerberg's company.

Since its launch, users have created more than 10,000 worlds or

in Horizon Worlds and according to Meta, the platform has more than 300,000 active users per month.

It has also become

, which hopes that in the near future most of the activities that are carried out on the network today will become virtual reality experiences.

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