What is Metaverse? How metaverse works? I am going to share each and everything about this in this post. Imagine that you are meeting with your family members and friends but not in reality. You are meeting them in an unreal 3d world that has been made artificially. We are entering this 3d virtual reality by sitting in your home wearing a special advanced headset.
You are studying, shopping, buying products, and doing all such activities that you do in your real life. You are experiencing the same thing just by wearing an advanced headset or goggles.
Just imagine, now how you feel, of course, you must be feeling weird, and a totally new experience. All this thing is going to happen in the metaverse. This technology is going to bring a huge change in this digital world.
What is Metaverse? and How metaverse works?
Metaverse is a combination of 2 words, Meta and Verse. Meta words have been taken from the Greek word, which means “Beyond” and verse word is taken from Universe. This word is used for the artificial world. Metaverse is going to replace the internet as per some experts. Internet and Metaverse are different from each other. While using the internet you have to use a cellphone to access anything and you go from a 2-dimensional screen. But Metaverse is itself a huge world where you can enter and explore anything virtually.
The Metaverse word was used in 1992 in a science fiction book called Snow Crash. This book was written by Neal Stephenson. A Dystopian world was mentioned in this book. A world that was completely vanished, the outer world is not suitable for living. So everyone is living inside their home and spending their time in virtual reality. So for that virtual reality, the word Metaverse was used in that book. After that, a game was launched in 2003 named Second Life.
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People could play the game on their computer and could have made their 2nd virtual reality life. People could also make their Avatars in that game. You must have seen the Mark Zuckerberg ads where he is making his 3d Avatar. Recently many companies have tried to make his metaverse but no one became successful.
Again the Metaverse word has been popularized by Facebook. Facebook has decided that it would be known as Metaverse instead of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg said that he wanted to change his Social media company to a Metaverse company. This is how the metaverse works.
Technologies of Metaverse.
Now let’s see how metaverse and its technologies work. So there are so many advanced technologies through which the metaverse has been made. The first one is Virtual reality which already exists. In order to use it, you have to wear heavy headsets. The quality of the video is not that good however it depends upon the cost and quality of the products. Of course, this is going to improve in the future. The second technology here is AR(Augmented reality), which means some artificial elements will be mixed with the real world.
The best example of this is the Pokemon Go smart game. Apart from these 5g technology is also going to add. Of course, if Facebook wants to make a virtual reality world they need high-speed internet. Blockchains and Cryptocurrency are also going to add in this Metaverse technology in order to purchase anything. If everything is going to be digital then they will also make sure to use this kind of digital currency. There could be the possibility of data breaches. Here comes blockchain technology by looking at all these concerns. It secures the data from scammers.
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Apart from these if you want to purchase any kind of assets or properties in the Metaverse. It all can be done through NFT(Non-Fungible Token). NFT is a kind of token that remains on Blockchain and it can prove any kind of ownership of digital assets. Some people use it for ownership of memes. NFT can also be used for verifying any concert ticket if anyone performing a concert in Metaverse. Let me tell you that some singers have already performed in Metaverse. This is how the metaverse works.
When we will get the Metaverse?
Some basic technologies already exist at a basic level. In order to make a complete metaverse, it will take some time. Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview that, it will take 5-10 years to live stream the metaverse. But some experts say that it will take more than a decade to popularize the metaverse where the majority of people can use it. Most people are saying that the metaverse is inevitable. Metaverse will be the biggest replacement for the internet.
Here the most interesting question is, will Metaverse be successful in the future? is anyone demanding Metaverse? I don’t know that people will much enjoy it. Instead of entering into virtual reality and talking with people, everyone would prefer a smartphone. Instead of doing video chat in Metaverse, I would prefer video calling through WhatsApp.
The best example of this is 3d glasses. It was a trend to watch movies in 3d by wearing 3d glasses. Before that 3d TV was also in trend and everyone wanted to have 3d TV. It sounds cool when someone says that I have 3d tv. But realistically it seems frills watching TV by wearing 3d glasses. I don’t know if people would like this or not. But basically, people want things to be simple and quick. The majority of people suffer from eyestrain and headache while using glasses to watch TV. This is unacceptable for most people.
Conclusion
This is also a big reason why the popularity of 3d movies has reduced. People prefer watching 2D movies nowadays. The 2nd big criticism of the metaverse is, do we really want to live in the virtual world? do we really want to detach from the real world and people? We all know that Facebook has our data, what we browse, what we want to purchase, and our interests. Facebook shows us the products everywhere for their business and we all know that once we search for anything on google, we started to see those kinds of stuff on every social media.
Through Metaverse this same thing may happen on a big scale. This is how the metaverse works. They can see our interest and show their products to gain their business. I am not sure whether it would become more or less popular in the future. What do you think about this topic? Share your opinion in the comment box.