The way technology has progressed in the modern world is beyond phenomenal. Throughout history, we’ve constantly been moving towards an increasing number of engaging and interactive mediums. We’ve shifted from reading books and newspapers to spending most of our time on the internet. Technological convergence introduced convergent devices such as smartphones and tablets that allow us to access all types of media through one device. This concept has fundamentally changed how content is produced, consumed, and shared globally. In the early 2000s, social media was only introduced, allowing you to chat with people with similar interests on chatrooms or forums. People used AOL or MSN Messenger to talk to friends, send emojis, share pictures, and listen to music. Devices now consist of many apps, most notably social media apps such as Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, that have made content distribution more democratic; phones with cameras have made the internet more visual, and faster connections have allowed employment of video proficiency.
Moving forward, professionals have decided to be abreast with the best of technology and latest innovations, striving for platforms and mediums that will be even more immersive, striving for a tangible and well-grounded internet where you’re inside the experience, not just looking at it. This is the Metaverse: the successor to the mobile internet. In other words, it is a living, shared, ever-lasting virtual universe achieved through a combination of augmented reality and virtual reality. It will allow you to live out your fantasies. In one single day, you could be slaying stormtroopers of the dark side with your lightsaber as a Jedi, fighting enemies in hand-to-hand combat, playing a game of checkers with your grandpa, scuttering through the Amazon Forest on an epic expedition, and even sunbathing in the tropical beaches of the Bahamas! All with incredible realism, knowing full well that you are safe in your house.
In the Metaverse, you will be able to create your three-dimensional avatars, which will be a living depiction of yourself in whatever way you want it to be. Meta is currently creating life-like avatars that will combine extreme realism and innumerable choices for you to take any shape or form, ridding you of the constraint of the body you were physically born into. You have the option of transforming into any gender, race, and even creature! You can make yourself a couple of inches taller, elongate your hands, and even make your forehead more prominent. You are at liberty to craft your own home space that matches your aesthetic and invite people to appear within it. If you thought deconstructing the atoms in your body and recreating them elsewhere was impossible in the real world, experience it in the Metaverse in which you can teleport by just clicking a link in your browser. You can not only travel to places of your choice around the globe but also travel back and forth in time and be part of various periods, such as The Great Depression, The Industrial Revolution, Ancient Rome, anything! You can even travel back to when dinosaurs existed and have a realistic Jurassic Park experience. The Metaverse allows you to be in your most optimal environment, be it a jungle, outer space, or a mundane underground world.
There will be new opportunities to learn about things in a visually enticing way that you’ve never seen before. The technology will increase productivity and enable faster input. We’ve all grown up writing things with pens, then moving to type on the computer. The Metaverse will allow us to use voices, gestures, and thought to obtain and exchange information. Meta is working on electromyographic input devices which can detect and intercept the impulses in your nerves and translate your thoughts, so if you’ve always wanted to have the ability to read minds, here’s your opportunity! There will also be opportunities to be part of sales platforms to be both the buyer and the seller. The metaverse will give rise to a new economy. It is currently developing a store within in called the Horizon Marketplace. You will have the chance to create virtual products or even craft a unique virtual experience and design an utterly exotic world without being limited by the physical materials you can get hold of.
In 2022, Meta will be coming out with a headset currently named Project Cambria which will be comfortable and project a sufficiently resolute display and will be able to track your facial expressions in real life, enabling you to have conversations with natural body language in the virtual space. There will be an internet that you are not just looking at through a screen. Still, you are inside, conveying the full range of human expression and connection and delivering the intense feeling of presence.
This is the future we seek; this is the future we welcome. With the power of Metaverse, we will get together with friends and family to work, learn, play, shop, create and do whatever we want while expressing ourselves and experiencing the world in joyful ways with ever more extraordinary richness.
