The "metaverse" under Schrödinger's law
Compared with the real physical world, the metaverse is a possible world where people can freely participate and live together with digital identities. In the virtual time and space it builds or the virtual world that mirrors reality, people create their own unique digital identities, participate in the formulation of rules and freely create unique gameplay, and live together with a group of people immersively rather than stagnating in " Watch” a certain scene.
This creation-like world is telling mankind a story that is large enough, fictional enough, beautiful enough, and appropriate enough. The entire story is the three most important elements in the metaverse framework: immersive interaction methods, digital twin content ecology and the economic system composed of blockchain, and the story unfolds from this.
The plot drivers of this story happen to be the same groups eager for change: technology, capital, and users. Existing products of the Internet era have obviously been unable to keep up with their upgrade needs for new products, new exports, and new experiences. The emergence of new stories has given all of this a new possibility.
The most important human ability: storytelling
Metaverse, these three words are like bait. They connect to the imagination cortex of your right half of the brain and outline the following images:
In essence, these three words want to tell you a story, a story about to happen, a great fictional story. And it doesn't say anything itself. All the plots are made up in your own mind, and the content is still swirling in your brain.
It is a strange and deep galaxy, and you seem to have returned to your own spiritual homeland.
Yuval Harari claimed in "A Brief History of Humankind: From Animals to God" that the reason why humans have become the masters of the earth is that humans can create and believe "fictional stories."
What is the human ability to “tell stories”?
One day a gorilla said to another gorilla, if you give me this banana, you will enter heaven after death, where there will be endless bananas. Taking religion as an example, only humans have a sense of identity with this story, and will blindly build cathedrals, mosques, and temples, and gradually mobilize thousands of people to worship a certain god or true god.
The ability to "tell stories" and "believe stories" is the prerequisite for primitive tribes to break through the upper limit of 150 people and launch large-scale collaboration.
Human beings have also created countries, companies and currencies by relying on their ability to "tell stories".
You see, there is a piece of green paper with a human head printed on it, and then he tells you that this piece of paper is worth ten bananas. If you believe in him, and I believe in him, and everyone believes in him, then this piece of paper can really buy ten bananas.
None of these exist objectively, but they demonstrate the ability of human beings to make fiction.
The Metaverse is telling a story to humans and themselves.
A story filled with all the good and progress that has come since the industrial age.
Moreover, this story is huge enough, fictional enough, beautiful enough, and close enough.
Words close to yourself in the Metaverse
Only words that are close to one's own can connect people's imagination.
In 209 B.C., the word had no inflammatory power;
In AD 30, the word had no empathy;
In 1848, the word had no demagogic power;
In 1966, the word had no appeal;
In 1985, the word was also unimaginative;
In 2021, the three words “Metaverse” immediately capture your resonance.
Tan Jianrong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said: "Each of us has a digital stand-in, a virtual avatar. Each of us can truly experience a three-dimensional world, a three-dimensional interaction, a real experience, a real Feelings. So we can think that the metaverse is essentially a process of virtualizing and digitizing the real world, so the development of the metaverse has integrated our entire digital space with the real space."
The following technologies are naturally related to the metaverse, and to some extent, you have interacted with them.
Some experts earlier believed that the Metaverse itself is not a technology, but an idea and concept. It needs to integrate different new technologies, such as 5G, 6G, artificial intelligence, big data, etc., emphasizing the integration of reality and reality.
With the development of 5G, the Metaverse relies on network communication technology, and the real-time perception experience in the Metaverse virtual space will also be greatly improved.
Moreover, including VR, AR, MR, XR, etc., it can provide a bridge between the real world and the virtual world, seamlessly connecting reality and virtuality.
The movie "Ready Player One" intuitively shows the audience the form of realizing the "Metaverse". Wearing a VR helmet can enter the "Oasis" virtual world, where there is a complete virtual social form, including digital content and digital products from various industries.
From the current point of view, the concept of the metaverse has been fully used in the field of online games.
Friends who are familiar with online games know that the essence of some online games is to build a virtual environment, and each user can find our own existence in that world. At present, many metaverse games are still in the concept stage, and the metaverse mobile games originally developed by UTONMOS platform under Heshu Group, such as "Unbounded Souls: Origin of Mountains and Seas", "Legend of the Northern Wilderness", and "War of the Northern Wilderness" are Serving gamers worldwide.
This type of metaverse game integrates a large number of 3D and AI technologies, integrates virtual images and scenes, and relies on each other between entertainment and business while constantly providing players with refreshing experiences, allowing members to experience an immersive experience and interaction just like in real life.
In terms of artificial intelligence, it simulates the world based on big data analysis, machine learning algorithms, etc., and the abstract summary will become more and more intelligent. Based on the improvement of computing power, AI intelligent technology will also be deeply applied in the Metaverse.
According to the encyclopedia, a blockchain is a chain composed of blocks one after another.
The Metaverse is a digital universe and requires a complete closed-loop financial system. Behind the financial system is decentralized blockchain technology. If you want to modify the information in the blockchain, you must obtain the consent of more than half of the nodes and modify the information in all nodes. These nodes are usually in the hands of different subjects, so it is extremely difficult to tamper with the information in the blockchain. thing. Compared with traditional networks, blockchain has two core characteristics: first, data is difficult to tamper with, and second, it is decentralized. Based on these two characteristics, the information recorded in the blockchain is more authentic and reliable, and can help solve the problem of people's mutual distrust.
Metaverse, has the potential of “meta-narrative”?
The Metaverse is the core connection of the above technologies, so you should be able to feel the existence of the "Metaverse" to some extent.
Such a close vocabulary is both based on reality and a little out of reach. It nourishes the soul and takes care of business interests. It is both self-enclosed and independent and open.
This is the spiritual support that human beings need most, so it is natural that it has swept all fields and all walks of life as soon as it appeared.
So, what is “metanarrative”?
It is a story about "eternal truth" and "human salvation". It is a form of conception of the future process with a beginning and an end. Its motivation stems from some kind of hope or fear for the development prospects of human history. It always involves the final outcome of the development of things, and is prophetic, convergent, purposeful, ultimate and unified.
The metaverse has the same logic as other "meta-narrative" concepts. It also pursues a story of "human liberation" and hopes to build a "brave new world" with "meta-narrative" characteristics.
A "meta-narrative" recognized by more people will be the cornerstone of human progress and guide the most people toward an ideal goal.
Why does the Yuan Universe move people’s hearts?
Or to put it another way, why did the whole world go crazy and look forward to it when the concept of "Metaverse" came out?
The simplest answer is: because of the emergence of the Metaverse Introduction, it can not only meet the material development of mankind (various technological products), but also meet the spiritual needs of mankind (globalization of the virtual world).
From WEB1.0 to WEB2.0, and then to the mobile Internet. The current Internet has reached its end and needs a new breakthrough.
To use a particularly old and ugly saying: the Internet has lost its dream.
The Metaverse can just help the Internet break its shackles and get out of involution.
From the physical world to the Internet, we basically still obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle, because our human body is composed of fermions such as quarks and electrons. If we occupy a space, we cannot allow a second person to occupy it.
The metaverse may be more inclined to quantum theory, which can realize the fission of multiple human personalities and freely shuttle between multiverses or parallel worlds. This may be more suitable for the quantum state of the human brain.
Metaverse Controversy: Is it the paradise of the future or the casino of today?
Every time the era moves forward, the connotation is to establish a new order, and at the same time it will inevitably touch the old order. That is to say, building a new world will inevitably harm the old world.
It is also bound to be prone to backlash from the old system.
This kind of backlash is reasonable, because many times, although the forward development of the times will depict a beautiful world, the so-called paradise may eventually turn into hell in the continuous forward process.
For example, the meta-narrative of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is "There are fields to cultivate together, people to eat together, people to wear together, people to wear together, people with money to work together, everywhere is uneven, no one is not full and warm."
In the end, most of the kings became demons.
The concept of the metaverse is eye-catching enough, and it will inevitably cause a lot of controversy. Many people angrily denounced the Metaverse as a "scam" and shouted that it is another "game" of capital. Some people think that the Metaverse is just a new prank to break the Leek Capital. Some people think that this is just a comeback of the "VR concept". ...........
In addition, as the authentication and trust mechanism of the Metaverse, how to properly embed the blockchain into the Metaverse to achieve decentralized results with a decentralized mechanism, break monopoly and achieve true global interaction is also a problem. Big problem.
Judging from the current technological development, the Metaverse will enter its prototype exploration period in the next five years. In the next 20 years, the metaverse may truly develop steadily.
This is the Metaverse, telling a fictional story and providing a beautiful vision. The law of the jungle, which was originally full of thorns, can be rewritten into a fairy tale.
Therefore, the establishment will definitely hate it and denounce the scam. But innovators and capital are dismissive, and leverage is high.
Is it the paradise of the future or the casino of today?
Everyone has their own answer, but the starting point is different. But here’s something to remember: The pessimist may be right, but the optimist always wins.
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The greatest figures in mankind always like to build a path forward of "overthrow and development".
However, much of this path ultimately has no ending.
Einstein tried to construct a "grand unified theory", but he was almost ended by quantum mechanics.
Descartes looked for "universal benefits, but what's the result? Populism is rampant in the world, and eventually it goes in the opposite direction of globalization.
The development of the "metaverse" will bring about the mutation of human species and the jump of civilization in the future.
It combines the beauty of Zhuang Zhou's Mengdie and the magic of the Magic Age, and may be the next 100 years for mankind.
However, perhaps the beautiful imagination about the metaverse must also face whether it will go the other way. Today, we have constructed a paradise, will there be a hell tomorrow?