Metaverse is a much easier concept than people believe – or try to explain.
In a nutshell, the metaverse is a virtual, 3D world where you can interact with the others as an avatar.
So basically instead of looking at other people’s faces on zoom, you see their tiny avatar moving around. When you get closer, you can start interacting and you can hear their voice, or exchange messages. or communicate in any other way.
You can move the avatar and look at it in your PC, as if you where playing a videogame; or on your phone; or you can even wear virtual reality glasses and become fully immersed in the metaverse.
It is like a first-person shooter (like Doom or Metar Gear Solid) where instead of killing people you interact with them (actually in some metaverses you do kill other avatars, as we will see later).
Yet, this is just the beginning. In the metaverse you can do more things such as:
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Organizing a conference. You can create your own setting – be it an island or the shangi-la palace – and all the avatars meet there. Then there will be virtual stages and on the stage there will be a video.
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You can launch a fashion collection with a virtual fashion show
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You can organize a concert
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You can create buildings and have people experiencing it in the metaverse