  The metaverse promises a shift in the way humans interact with each other,
and with their digital and physical environments. The lack of geographical
boundaries and travel costs in the metaverse prompts us to ask if the
fundamental laws that govern human mobility in the physical world apply. We
collected data on avatar movements, along with their network mobility extracted
from NFT purchases. We find that despite the absence of commuting costs, an
individuals inclination to explore new locations diminishes over time, limiting
movement to a small fraction of the metaverse. We also find a lack of
correlation between land prices and visitation, a deviation from the patterns
characterizing the physical world. Finally, we identify the scaling laws that
characterize meta mobility and show that we need to add preferential selection
to the existing models to explain quantitative patterns of metaverse mobility.
Our ability to predict the characteristics of the emerging meta mobility
network implies that the laws governing human mobility are rooted in
fundamental patterns of human dynamics, rather than the nature of space and
cost of movement.
