Most of us have probably seen in the news that Facebook has changed its company name to Meta, as they plan to build something on Metaverse. It has been the talk of the town since its announcement. Metaverse is going to bring a fierce storm of changes in our elan. Let us know the terms that need to be spoken about what it is? Why are people excited about it? And why does it have the real potential to end society as we know it?
The Metaverse concept is that throughout history, we have constantly been moving more and more engaging mediums. We have gone from text to photo to video. We have gone from reading books and papers to now spending most of our free time watching Tik Tok videos on the internet. And the Metaverse comes next. Internet that you are not just looking at through a screen, but you are actually inside of! Take anything you could think of doing right now; shopping, talking to friends, meditating on videos on YouTube, and now imagine in the time it takes you to just snap your fingers you could be doing that thing in a way that feels real with other people who feel present in a setting that whatever you want it to be a living shared eternal virtual universe. The meta vision of the Metaverse is achieved through augmented reality and virtual reality, which they have said will subsidize the cost of getting as many people on this planet as part of the Metaverse.
In case you haven't heard, there are some undeniable positives in the Metaverse:
It allows us to live out our fantasies:
Imagine you slaying an enemy at one shot in your favorite video game and surfboarding in the lakes of the Bahamas or just living the dream that you have always wanted to. All with incredible realism but at the same time with the reassurance of your safety at your place.
Comfortable, one will be able to express themselves however they want to!
Our social media profile pictures depict our existence to others. But in the Metaverse, it is not just an image but an avatar; it is a fully three-dimensional living depiction of you! But in the way that you would want to. One could be any gender, height, race, creature, or color. Meta is working on the tech to create completely life-like creatures, fully rendered with every hair on their head and every pore in their skin. This is surreal. This realism, combined with the sheer amount of choices one gets, will allow one to feel that they aren't being constrained by the body that they are physically born with. In real life, one could be someone with a severe disability in a wheelchair, put in the Metaverse, forget walking, that someone can fly and experience life like never before.
Teleportation:
In the Metaverse, each person will have their own home space, with the aesthetics they want.
Knowledge:
Metaverse is also learning. We look at libraries as old-fashioned these days; why would anyone wish to search their queries in books when they can just google in seconds. In the Metaverse, googling is said to be old-fashioned. Instead, one can learn about things by just looking at them or touching them and obtaining a visual feast of information like never seen. Imagine being able to live the renaissance, dinosaurs period; That's what the Metaverse makes possible.
Productivity:
If one can learn faster, one can do things more quickly too. Considering the current situation, a lot of us are working from home. With Metaverse, one can always be in the surroundings they wish to be in to increase the productivity graph. Use gestures, voices, and even getting things done just by thinking about them! How cool is that?
Potentially unexpected positives could be:
Environment:
In the Metaverse, the more people shift to it, the more the world shifts to digital information. Usage of physical data, goods, or experience shows less impact on the planet.
New economy:
Meta is developing a new store within it called "horizon marketplace." A platform where anyone can sell anything. Every forward-thinking brand will strive to have a face in here. The new world does have new opportunities. The transactions will be in crypto!
Negatives because of the Metaverse:
Data:
Facebook has a pretty difficult relationship with handling data; this was from the era where we were quite detached from our presence on the internet. A technology that can measure your brain activity, what? Yes, in the Metaverse, it is our presence entirely; users will have to put a whole new level of trust on it when they are not aware of how the data is being used in the backend.
What's real?
Metaverse is an illusionary world. Every business and every person would want to mark their presence there. Since people start going digital, physical appearances will not be as exciting as they are, and the need for the same will decrease gradually. The want of physicality will not be a necessity, too, slowly.
Moderation:
Every action that a user takes has to be monitored if they have to prevent the chaos that might happen. For the respective disciplines of the meta to work uninterruptedly.
What about us?
Us becoming an avatar in the metaverse world, tech that determines our actions and puts the same into work, knowing things just by touching or thinking about them, every detail that we know so far is enormous and has kept us excited to core. But, what will happen to us? The real behind the avatars?
We are still people; We might get next-generation experiences but also harassment far closer and misinformation now and then. We need it because life might suck without it. Knowing that your avatar can do more than you in reality by just thinking!
Conclusion:
The future is indeed driverless cars and hyper-connected cities. We might not come across physical drivers, gardeners, etc., since Metaverse does not need them. All it needs is people who can think logically of their needs and encode the same thinking.
Metaverse is not one thing; it is an evolution. It is not just a Facebook thing; it is an inevitable future. In the end, every individual and brand will invest without a second thought. There are negatives, there are positives too! Being cautious and evolving is the future; Cautious in terms of data intake, maybe if the Metaverse is made into open-source software, even that can be overcome too.
Letting the future in the Metaverse be unfolded and seeing what else it has got to offer is what is in our arena.
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