THE PROS AND CONS OF METAVERSE
A place where you can perform things from the comfort of your home as people live, shop, work and communicate with others. This virtual world concept is called Metaverse. The Metaverse got recognition in October 2021 when Facebook changed its name to Meta. This multi-millionaire company spent 11 billion $ on technology for one year to bring out its vision on the map. The introduction of the Metaverse in the digital world will bring evolution. People will interact with others and make business meetings, including games with digital avatars.
THE CONCEPT OF METAVERSE
Many companies made online worlds based on this concept. The most popular one, Second Life, was released around 2003. Metaverse allows people to represent themselves as avatars and interact with each other to build a virtual community. Users can travel virtually through a VR headset and Controllers.
Ernest Cline’s Rady one player was a novel based on the idea of the Metaverse. It became a movie set in 2045 with the world getting plagued and people escaping it through a virtual reality called Oasis.
The Metaverse is the mega-goal for many tech giants. It is the goal of Epic games, Facebook, and Microsoft, with Epic Games being the reason for Facebook’s buying of Oculus VR and its newly announced Horizon virtual meeting space. Some notable depictions of Metaverse are films such as ready one player and free guy.
