  Spurred by the severe restrictions on mobility due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
there is currently intense interest in developing the Metaverse, to offer
virtual services/business online. A key enabler of such virtual service is the
digital twin, i.e., a digital replication of real-world entities in the
Metaverse, e.g., city twin, avatars, etc. The real-world data collected by IoT
devices and sensors are key for synchronizing the two worlds. In this paper, we
consider the scenario in which a group of IoT devices are employed by the
Metaverse platform to collect such data on behalf of virtual service providers
(VSPs). Device owners, who are self-interested, dynamically select a VSP to
maximize rewards. We adopt hybrid evolutionary dynamics, in which heterogeneous
device owner populations can employ different revision protocols to update
their strategies. Extensive simulations demonstrate that a hybrid protocol can
lead to evolutionary stable states.
