How Metaverse works?

 Hello, friends! Imagine you meet with your family members or your friends, but not really, rather in a virtual 3D world. One that is created artificially. You enter this world while you're sitting in your room, using a special headset or glasses. Similarly, you're working or studying or shopping, you do almost all the things that you do in the real world,but not in the real world, instead of in this virtual, artificially created world, using this special headset or glasses right from your room.

How does it sound? Doesn't it sound a little depressing?

Friends, the Metaverse promises something akin to this for the future.It is touted to be a technology that would replace the internet in the future, and will become the future of humanity."Will Metaverse change the world of the internet? I think we'll have to brace for this race for the Metaverse. I think we'll see more and more of an AI coming in the gaming space."The next platform and medium will be even more immersive and embodied internet, where you're in the experience, not just looking at it.And we call this the Metaverse. Because the future is going to be beyond anything we can imagine."The word Metaverse is made up of two words.

Meta + Verse.The word Meta is derived from Greek, it is a prefix that means 'Beyond.' And the Verse comes from the word 'Universe.'

We live in this Universe and it will be the Metaverse that will be beyond this universe. This word is used to refer to an artificial world.

You might recall another word related to this, the Multiverse. The one talked about in the latest Spiderman film. Multiverse is the concept where there are multiple existing universes, It is something that is even scientifically discussed. Some people believe that there isn't only one universe, rather there are multiple universes, thus the Multiverse. But anyway, Metaverse means an artificially created universe. The Internet can also be said to be a distinct universe but when you go on the Internet, it is mostly limited to 2 Dimensions only. Whether you're using your phone or your computer, these are 2-dimensional screens. But when Metaverse is talked about, Metaverse would be a world where you can be completely in it. In 3 Dimensions. Like when you watch a film, you wouldn't be watching the film merely as a viewer, you would experience being in the film. For example, you're watching the Dandi March happening, you wouldn't just see the photo of it, or the video of the Dandi March, rather it would be as if you're sitting in a boat nearby and watching the Dandi March as it is happening. Or when you watch a cricket match on the television, it is in 2 dimensions, but technically, if we use virtual reality, then you would get a 360° experience of watching the cricket match around you. 

It will try to create an experience that would make you feel as if you're actually at the match. The word Metaverse was first used in the year 1992.In the science fiction book Snow Crash. Written by Neal Stephenson. In this novel, he talked about a dystopian world, a world where real-life has been destroyed outdoors wasn't livable for humans anymore, so everyone lives confined to their buildings and rooms, and spends their life in virtual reality. That virtual reality, the artificial world, was referred to as Metaverse by him. After this, a game was released in 2003 called the Second Life. You could play this game on the computer, and create a second life in this game on the computer. Meeting people virtually, buying items, buying properties in the game, exchanging goods and services, and creating realistic looking avatars. By the way, an interesting fact here, the word Avatar, was first popularised in the 1992 book Snow Crash.

This word comes from the Hindi/Sanskrit word Avtar when we call someone a reincarnation of a deity. Similarly, the word Avatar was used here for the characters in the virtual reality that you could create. They'd be your Avatars. Like this 3-D animation of Mark Zuckerberg created by him, this 3D character is the Avatar of Mark Zuckerberg. This word became more popular in the rest of the world with the release of the 2009 film Avatar. Recently though, many companies tried to create their virtual worlds and Metaverses, but this word was made popular again by Facebook. When Facebook decided to change the name of their company to Meta.Saying that they want to adopt the Metaverse.

That they want to expand from being a social media company to a Metaverse company. And Mark Zuckerberg defined the Metaverse in this manner."And you're gonna be able to do almost anything you can imagine. Get together with friends and family, work, learn, play, shop, create, as well as entirely new categories that don't fit how we think about computers and phones today. If it were up to Mark, he would've said that you could eat and have bodily functions in the Metaverse itself. Because the more you spend time in the Metaverse, the more data they would be able to collect on you. More they earn.

 How the Metaverse is created.?

Various technologies are used here, to create the Metaverse. The first is Virtual Reality. This technology already exists today. But to use this, you have to wear these heavy headsets. And if you have them on for more than half an hour, they start causing headaches, and motion sickness.

As claimed by many users. On top of it, the things that you can see in virtual reality now, the level of technology that we have today, is quite poor. The quality of animation that you see in the virtual reality games, the videos that you can see on there, Although it is something that would improve with time. It is also being hoped that these heavy headsets with the new technologies, would keep getting smaller and slimmer, and eventually, they'd be the size of normal glasses. Where it wearing it and taking it off would be as easy as wearing and taking off a pair of glasses. Whether this would be possible, time will tell.

The second technology is AR.

Augmented Reality. It would mean that some artificial elements mixed with our real world. It wouldn't be a complete Virtual Reality. An excellent example of it is the Pokémon Go smartphone game. On it, you can use the smartphone to look at the real world around you, but when you look at it through the smartphone, you can see the artificial Pokémons in there. It seems like they are mixed in the real world around you. Another good example of it is the Google Glass which was released once upon a time. A product that was released and taken back without people finding out about it. But Google Glass had a huge hype around 2013-14, glasses with which you could add virtual elements in the real world. When you look at the road in front of you, you can have a map at the corner of the glasses, You could take it to someone through the camera, while looking in front of you, even while walking, this feature was heavily criticised. 

This was mocked so much that eventually, the Google Glass was a huge flop. Apart from this, having 5G technology in the Metaverse is also talked about. If we're to create a huge virtual world, we'd need to constantly upload and download a huge amount of data, for this, we'd need extremely high internet speeds, we'd need 5G. Additionally, Blockchains and cryptocurrencies are also mentioned, when talking about the Metaverse. When money would be spent to buy anything in the Metaverse, they can't be real money, of course, because everything is digital, so there would be a need for digital currency. This is where Cryptocurrencies come into play. And because there's a large number of transactions constantly, they'd need to be kept secure. There would be a threat of hackers, or the threat of data breaches too, To keep these secure, Blockchains might be used. The exact manner in which Blockchains keep the data secure. Apart from it, if you want to buy land in the Metaverse,or some other property, or any asset in the Metaverse, how should that be accomplished? It is said that it'll be accomplished through NFTs.Non Fungible Tokens. You can think of NFTs as tokens, that exists on the blockchain, and can prove the ownership of any digital asset. How would you prove that you own a particular digital land in the Metaverse? An NFT will prove it. 

Nowadays, it is being used to buy or sell the ownership of memes.NFTs can be used to verify the tickets to a concert also. If someone holds a virtual concert in the Metaverse. It is something that some singers have already done it. Virtual reality concerts. In it, they get up on a digital stage and perform, and you see them as animated figures and see them perform. It can be used there as well. Last year in September, singer Arianna did this by virtually performing in Fortnite. Although all these technologies exist individually on a basic level, combining them, and creating a true Metaverse will take a lot of time. Mark Zuckerberg estimates that it would take about 5 to 10 years, for the key features of Metaverse to become a part of the mainstream. Several experts believe that it would take decades before something akin to the Metaverse could become so popular, that majority of people would be using it. Many people believe that metaverse is inevitable. It is bound to happen someday. I think it has a very productive use casein engineering, architecture or even in the field of medicine. Where you need to think in 3D. 3D models would make the work more efficient and overall better. Especially if you could interact with 3D models. I believe it has great potential in many business areas and industries, these types of technologies. 

I hope you found this blog to be informative.