On October 28, 2021, social media giant Facebook (Facebook) officially changed its name to Meta, the word Meta is taken from the first four letters of the word Metaverse.
Then Facebook announced that it would invest 10 billion to build the Metaverse. What made a company of such a size change its own name? The name is the face of a company, and the operation of replacing one's own name has almost never happened in a similar large company. Such an operation that shocked everyone makes people think that Facebook CEO Zuckerberg is crazy, but Zuckerberg said that the metaverse is a new Internet revolution
After this, capital giants all over the world also announced their plans to deploy the Metaverse. Domestic Baidu brought its own "Metaverse" product "Xi Rong" to shake hands with the new era, and Tencent and Ali also invested in the "Metaverse". A lot of money, and even some unknown small companies have started their own metaverse projects. The popularity of the word "metaverse" remains high, and the metaverse has become the code of wealth in this era.
So what exactly is the metaverse?
The term "metaverse" should first appear in a novel "Avalanche" published by science fiction writer Nils Stephenson in 1992. And the "metaverse" is the huge virtual reality world depicted in the novel.
To put it more simply, I wonder if you have seen Ready Player One and Out of Control Player? Or have the friends of the second dimension watched "Sword Art Online"? Have you read various online games and holographic novels?
In fact, the Metaverse is the same as the virtual world depicted in the above film and television animation works.
In fact, it is to use VR and AR technology to build a virtual world in the real world that maps and interacts with the real world.
In essence, it is the virtualization and digitization of the real world, and the currency in the virtual world can be directly exchanged for real currency.
That is to say, in this world, it is actually similar to the real world. It can carry out human-computer interaction, and even provide jobs. It has its own economic system, but it is linked to real currency.
It may be more general and simple to say this, and it will be better to understand it in terms of a game.
We can also generalize the composition of the metaverse with blockchain and VR games.
We can understand the metaverse as a game with only a server built. There is nothing in it. All the gameplay and rules need to be created by the players themselves, and there is even no game scene.
The NFT on blockchain technology is considered to be a real connection for constructing and achieving the great unity of various virtual societies in the metaverse.
Some people may not understand that if there is nothing, what am I going to play! It was at the stage where there was nothing that all the big guys appeared to snatch it.
The first wave of people who landed on the mainland will get different resources from the resources that the second group of people can get. There are so many treasures. If you come late, who will keep it for you?
That is to say, real capital has an innate advantage, and it is possible to buy houses and land in the virtual world in advance.
You are one step slower than capital even dreaming...
So what are those who say that the metaverse is very good, a free world, satisfying spiritual needs, and realizing great abundance of material resources?
Some people even suggested that this is an opportunity for young people to make a comeback...
The Metaverse where rich people can buy land in advance, for us ordinary people... Isn't it just a change of place to work?
This sounds so hopeless.
So is the Metaverse a capitalist scam? No one can come to a conclusion.
From my personal point of view, I have always been biased towards a capital-led product.
First of all, in principle, there can be more than one metaverse, there can be many, and who can determine which metaverse is the final one. What is the basis of the metaverse? Servers and energy (electricity). So in essence, to build a metaverse, isn't it necessary to occupy the basic resources first? And someone dedicated to protecting and maintaining that infrastructure. I can't think of anyone who can do such a thing except the country. If you bring the country, it will conflict with a high degree of decentralization. In the end, will it become a competition for resources, or because of its high dependence on resources, decentralization cannot be achieved at all.
This is not to tell everyone to buy new energy!
Secondly, if too many people invest in the output of the virtual world, will it affect the development of the real world? No one can say that kind of thing.
The current industrialization really does not require labor in a few countries, so human resources are still very important resources for social development. However, if so many people are addicted to working in the virtual world, 996. Will the real world stagnate? Will it affect real-life prices?
The developed countries are over-developed, and there are even developing countries that do not have enough food and clothing. The development of mankind has not yet reached a balance, and there are still many problems that have not been resolved. Can the metaverse really be realized?
In the end, I think that the concept of the metaverse is actually inevitable. Humans are creatures that desperately need virtual worlds. In ancient times, we indulged in witchcraft and imagined gods. Continuing to develop, we have appeared literary works, and now film and television works, animation, games, etc., these are the metaverse of a certain period of human beings.
It can even be said that as long as someone feels that real life makes him very stressed, then there needs to be a corresponding virtual world for him to relax.
The capital that really advocates this concept may be uneasy and well-intentioned. They may just want to seize the opportunity and make a lot of money, but we cannot ignore the yearning for the virtual world.
The famous science fiction writer Liu Cixin once criticized the concept of the metaverse, believing that the metaverse blocks our human exploration of the sea of stars, but the sea of stars may just be the dream of the rich, and ordinary people are just fuel for their rockets.
The future is not necessarily the age of the metaverse, because not everyone wants to join the metaverse. The future is not necessarily the era of interstellar, because not everyone can participate in the journey of the sea of stars.
If the metaverse was just a highly free holographic game that wasn't tied to reality, I probably wouldn't hate the concept. For a game lover like me, he may be a free world to relax and unwind. However, the current wind and concept stock hype have turned the Metaverse into what looks like a scam.
At present, the metaverse cannot be realized according to the current technology, and there is still a long way to go. The surging metaverse on the market is more of a concept, a wind blown by capital, but opportunities and risks are directly proportional.
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