In an Augmented Reality (AR) world, a digital layer is placed over the physical, touchable world we all know. The landmarks, addresses, and continents are the same. So as you walk through the real world, you’ll see the virtual items — a giant pink elephant, for example — through your mobile phone, or smart glasses.

And in this AR environment, virtual land can be bought, rented and sold, just as it is in the real world. Owners and renters can do pretty much anything they want with their digital land, including running a business — which is often encouraged. Commerce in the AR world is good.

Infiniverse is an AR world running on the EOS blockchain, where you can buy swaths of land to build digital assets, trade items, and run a thriving business. But despite the sky’s the limit atmosphere of Infiniverse platform, the company needed a way to secure virtual real estate for buyers. Here’s how it Infiniverse works:

One problem with selling digital real estate? Squatters. People who game the system, and leave assets — like giant pink elephants, for example — on land they don’t own or have rights to, by pretending that they are actually in that location. This would essentially devalue and ruin the whole purpose of land and would be disastrous for the Infiniverse economy.

XYO is adding our location data to Infiniverse’s augmented reality world. With our location certainty, we can help Infiniverse protect land and verify location, so users can buy, rent, start a business, and trade in the tech company’s marketplace — without interlopers messing up the process.

Here’s a video from Infiniverse’s founder, Nebojsa Zelenovic, about the partnership.

We’ve barely scratched the surface of what can be done in with AR, but we know by the success of Pokémon Go, for instance, that AR is energizing the masses. We look forward to helping Infiniverse secure land in their own AR world, and seeing what people do with that real estate!