I think Metaverse is a collection of what is already here, not a complete new invention - But with VR glasses.
There is the children game Roblox. In some way every game is kind of a Metaverse, GTA has it own city where you do what you want, so is Sims. In multiplayer games, you can turn on the microphone, talk and plan the game with your friends. Even Farmville was once a virtual farm, lol.
People already join “Spaces” in Twitter to talk in a group, or in Zoom. Pandemic allowed people to test the online school. In Discord you can share your screen to watch with friends while talking to friends. I often join such groups of football and movies.
I think Metaverse is going to be an imitation of real life, perhaps a bit more artistic, and where people have “more freedom”, but I wonder if people will really get addicted into it, or it will rather be a failure like the 3D technology. I believe people will buy the VR for curiosity then if they remain in it or not is unknown. Thought I believe childreen are more likely to like it.
Imagine a virtual cinema, that replaces the real-life cinemas, you create a profile, a 3D profile of yourself, your face, and then you join with friends or foreigners there, a movie plays in that virtual cinema, people feel close together.
Then imagine the classroom, the whiteboard, the tables, the teacher, and the children, each with its own profile, speaking with their microphone, and drawing on the board.
Or a game which makes you enter in a 3D supermarket, all the products listed there, and even the visitors, who would then order online. That would replace online stores.
Perhaps a dancing room where you dance and the camera is used for the AI to imitate your body and emotions.
Inside the metaverse, you could also buy “virtual assets” to make money.
You can become “somebody else” and perhaps succed more there than in real world.
Watch the anime “Belle” or the “Ready Player One”
Zuck said he liked Metaverse because it made him feel as if the friends were in the room together with him.
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Personally I don’t like that Metaverse will need VR glasses. It’s like becoming “blind” of real world, being physically in real world and mentally in the virtual world. That’s the downside that makes it as a dystopia. Think of watching family members or being in a coffee, where people have put the VR glasses on, we would then understand the elders who don’t like phones, seeing how we are all connected on our phones all the time and nobody wants to talk.
I’m more interested in AR glasses, hologram communications, hologram worlds.
For instance, imagine sitting in the stands at a football game. While you watch the action, your AR glasses display stats, scores and player data. Likewise, if you’re walking down the street looking for a place to eat, your AR glasses can display local options, including restaurant ratings and reviews.
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