Big Tech, of course, is ready to take things a step further.Īs Zuckerberg described in a video released Thursday, Meta is trying to build a part of the metaverse that would let users do “almost anything you can imagine” - or at least be a place where they can interact, work, shop, play games, gather for social events or create content.
give his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.īut the future of open-world gaming is just one of the many ways the metaverse will take hold of our lives. circa 1963 to “teleport” players back to the Capitol to watch Martin Luther King, Jr. More recently, “Fortnite” reimagined Washington D.C. There have even been reports of people hosting their “wedding” inside the cutesy virtual world of Nintendo’s “Animal Crossing” - and inviting their friends’ digital avatars to attend - after the pandemic canceled their real-world receptions. They’re working together in real-time, arranging meet-ups, even spending in-game currencies - all while communicating via headsets or chat.įacebook to hire 10,000 in EU to build ‘metaverse’ platform
These gamers have established virtual avatars of themselves, which interact with other virtual avatars across persistent online worlds. The easiest way to envision this concept, perhaps, is to observe the gaming community - which is the closest any group has come to entering the so-called metaverse, as far as Undheim is concerned. “But it has now become the term for the gradual shift in digital communication whereby the internet is becoming a hybrid reality, meaning it’s becoming physical and digital at the same time.” “The term predates the internet we know today,” explains Trond Undheim, Ph.D., a futurist, and author whose podcasts explore technological innovation and artificial intelligence, among other topics. The concept’s name - the metaverse - was even adopted from the 1992 novel “Snow Crash,” in which the plot plays out in both virtual and physical realities.
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