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Tech giants like Microsoft, Facebook want to build the “Metaverse” – Will this be the future of internet!?
In July, Mark Zuckerberg brought a futuristic concept into the limelight when he said that Facebook will be known as “Metaverse company”. Facebook will strive to build a maximalist, interconnected set of experiences straight out of Sci-fi – world known as Metaverse.
So…What exactly is this Metaverse!?
First coined in a 1992 book called “ Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson, metaverse is a virtually empowered physical reality. In theory, it would use augmented reality-powered avatars and virtual reality to interact.
“Meta” - Beyond
“Verse” - Universe
“The metaverse should be a collection of technologies, backends and experimental frontends that all play nicely together”
-Daniel Liebeskind, CEO of Topia. And to be a full universe no single company could own the metaverse.
Facebook sees the launch of Horizon Workrooms that can be accessed with an Oculus VR headset as an early step toward building its metaverse. Vans also launched “Vans World” within Roblox as part of the metaverse push.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company is working to build an “enterprise metaverse”. Epic Games said it raised $1B to spend on its metaverse plans while computing giant Nvidia is also working in the field.
Although movies like “Star Wars” and “The Matrix” have predicted the metaverse, the internet, in its current form is not designed for the metaverse experience and the infrastructure does not exist.
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