By Rob Lenihan Metaverse real estate sales reached $501 million in 2021 and could reach nearly $1 billion this year. A crowd of some 50,000 people on April 22, 1889, waited for the sound of a bugle’s blast at high noon to begin the Oklahoma Land Rush. By the end of the day nearly two million acres of land had been claimed. And now there is another land rush happening, but there are no settlers stampeding on horseback. This time it’s happening in the metaverse and the bugle has already sounded. ‘3D World Expanding Exponentially’Virtual real estate is made up of designated pieces of code in an i…