From PC Internet to mobile Internet to the Metaverse, the development of the Internet is constantly evolving and upgrading. The era dividend of the Metaverse will bring about a comprehensive upgrade extending from the underlying infrastructure to the user experience.
People understand the metaverse from different perspectives. However, we believe that although there is currently no unified and standardized definition of the Metaverse in academia and industry, a certain consensus has gradually emerged on the concept of the Metaverse, that is, the Metaverse should include the physical world and the digital world, and is a universe based on the real world. In a durable and stable real-time virtual space, the digital and physical worlds will merge into an interoperable ecosystem. It includes a large number of users and other participants and a fully operational economic system, comprehensive and rich digital content, and even a virtual digital world.
Many experts’ understanding of the Metaverse can be summarized in the following terms: First, the Metaverse is the next generation of the Internet; second, the Metaverse is a reconstruction of the three-dimensional digital world in which humans live. It combines aspects of social media, online gaming, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and cryptocurrency to allow users to interact virtually and recreate the human way of life and production in the digital world. This is a relatively narrow understanding and definition; third, the metaverse is the symbiosis of virtuality and reality between the physical world and the digital world.
According to relevant statistics, the total financing of global Metaverse projects in the first half of 2023 was only US$700 million, less than one-tenth of last year’s total. Such oscillations are also normal. The Metaverse will not arrive suddenly. Before it can truly mature, it needs to experience breakthroughs in various underlying technologies and improvements in hardware, and will finally usher in an explosion in content consumption.
After more than three years of development, the Metaverse has gone from a popular concept to practical implementation. At this stage, it has reached a state of development where rationality has returned. At this stage, Metaverse needs to learn more from gamification thinking, through scene exploration that integrates virtual and real situations, as well as user content creation and digital asset precipitation through artificial intelligence and blockchain, so that users can gain economic benefits and boost Metaverse marketing gains. Breakthrough development.
At present, the technology, applications, ecology, etc. that promote the development of the Metaverse are constantly strengthening, but people are not using the concept of the Metaverse to support it. In the future, the Metaverse will become a new engine for productivity changes in the digital era and can promote the transformation and upgrading of digital content. The people, content, and scenes in the metaverse should be rich and diverse, integrate virtual and real, and grow iteratively, so as to evolve a sustainably operating metaverse.
The value of the Metaverse lies in its potential to keep pace with the next industrial revolution. Whether it is a concept, technology, or platform, it will have the potential to change the world.
In terms of scenarios, in order to promote the large-scale production and dissemination of digital content, UTONMOS focuses on the overall life cycle of the Metaverse, from planning and design, construction and implementation to operational support, to provide a one-stop solution for the entire life cycle. In the past six months, UTONMOS Metaverse has been very active. From the UTONMOS Metaverse social platform to the current UTONMOS Metaverse chain game, it has been developing and growing continuously.
Any innovation requires great courage, and the same is true for the Metaverse. We appreciate the manufacturers who are investing heavily in the Metaverse at this time, and we hope they can continue to have this courage. In the future, time and market rules will change, and not every sunflower can be warmed by the sun. I can only wish that domestic technological development can still be seen "blooming" when the metaverse truly arrives.