My note on Metaverse

November 2021

When we approach the metaverse from the technology lens, it combines social media, online gaming, augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and cryptocurrencies.

Meta Connect

Now let’s approach metaverse more on an abstract level; if we consider the earth or even the universe as a metaverse where people can talk, learn and work with other people. With this analogy, a metaverse can be digital cyberspace or a platform on which social media, a game, or any experiences can build upon. Even hybrid teleportation between these spaces would also be possible(multiverse).

Meta Connect

Many fictional worlds which are as words in a book or much more visualized in a movie. Imagine if these worlds are digitized built as a digital world where fans can roam, interact, buy digital goodies, interact with the characters in the movie or why not experience the story itself as one of the cast with multiple storylines. So the fidelity with which we share a story is moving getting higher.

Similarly, a metaverse can be the new world where the real and the cyber worlds meet, where the bits get augmented with the atoms. The natural interaction mechanism in which the computer can talk to our senses makes this experience more real in haptics for touch or even making us believe by tricking our brain with the brain-computer interface.

Microsoft Ignite

Between what is real?
When Reality is not what is “real,” it’s what we think is real.

Metaverse is a platform that can be evolved into many forms in the future, something similar to the worldwide web when it first began. It is about making the content we consume, either in education or entertainment, with more fidelity than in the past.