Sometimes difficult terms thrown around by the tech industry can make you feel like you’re reading another language but we don’t want that to happen. I keep trying to break down tech jargon to easily understand the new tools available.
Today the technology concept that we are going to demystify is meta wars. I will tell you what it is and why the tech community is passionately discussing it seems. Facebook taking a step further as per the media report suggests that the social network giant is planning to introduce itself with a new name that focuses on the meta wars. Here is a report metaverse is the hot new buzzword in the tech world to know it. Let’s discuss how we engage with people on the internet. we visit different websites such as social media platforms or use messaging applications to communicate with different users through text share multimedia platforms and one can make use of video calls.
Metaverse plans to take this experience to a further higher. Mainly, the idea is to create new online spaces in which people’s interactions can be more multi-dimensional and where users are able to represent their ideas in digital form rather than simply looking at them.
Metaverse generally refers to digital spaces which are made with the help of virtual reality. It’s an online world where people can make use of electronic devices to talk in a virtual environment.
People use the word metaverse to explain gaming worlds in which users have a role that can go around and interact with other players. Science fiction is another example many sci-films are displayed in metaverses which means they are displaying alternative digital worlds which are unidentified through the physical world. until today this was the stuff of fiction but the concept is catching on the who’s who of the tech world is now looking at virtual reality universe as the future of the internet.
Facebook, CEO mark Zuckerberg has said that the company will try to transition from being a social media company to a metaverse company in the next five years or so.
The tech giant has even announced plans to create 10 000 jobs in the European union(EU) over the next five years to facilitate to build the so-called metaverse.
Microsoft planning to converge the digital and physical world to the popular children’s game Roblox. Naming itself as a metaverse company epic games. Fortnite is an online video game developed by Epic Games also considered to be a part of the metaverse. Musicians can arrange virtual concerts within these platforms for example in September millions of people watched the singer Ariana Grande virtually perform on Fortnite.
The world’s biggest fashion companies have also experienced designing virtual clothing which can be worn by people’s avatars in metaverse environments. The capacity to develop this emerging technology is limitless.
The fastly growing interest in the metaverse can be witnessed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic as more people have started working from home as well as attending online classes.
There has been an increase in demand for possible ways to make online interactions more. Lifelike fans of the metaverse now see it as the next stage in the development of the internet.
