Just slip on your AR glasses and enjoy the night with your friends’ avatars. You can invite your friends into your actual home, but they don’t really have to be there. This is still in the works, but the company’s goal is to allow users access to a hybrid reality. Work anywhere, virtually / Image Credit: Meta But if you still wanted a taste of the real world, well, Meta has something for you too: AR glasses. Just imagine not needing to leave your house, yet being able to be as “present” as can be in all these different settings. Large tech companies are capitalising on this, with Meta (previously Facebook) announcing its own version of the metaverse, complete with usage of its Oculus Quest VR headsets so users can go shopping, socialise, go to work, and more, through the virtual world. They’re more of a modern addition to the basic concept of the metaverse as we know it, taking the virtual universe to the next level. But they don’t necessarily have to be in order to make the metaverse, a metaverse. No, I do not want to be a pirate in real life, but in the metaverse, I can be anyone I want to be.) Okay, but aren’t AR and VR part of the metaverse? When doing up our Gather avatars, some of us chose to go the more realistic route by designing ones that looked close to our real selves, while some of us straight up chose to be a pirate, for example. Whether it’s The Sims, Second Life, or Genshin Impact, the acts of playing such games and living your virtual life in them while fostering social connections (in the latter two) all fall under what you would do in a metaverse.Īt Vulcan Post, we’ve even used Gather, a virtual space for friends and families, but more popularly, for colleagues to “meet” up, chat, and “work” like they used to in person, from home-which is exactly what we did, and still do for our Friday “office” lunches. It’s an extension of what you can achieve in real life.Įssentially, if you’ve played a role-playing or a life simulation game, chances are, you’re already part of the metaverse. Together, the two words give the meaning of “beyond universe”, which is generally understood as a virtual world beyond, or overlaying, our physical world.Īt its core, the metaverse is an imagined, virtual space where you can live multiple lives, be who you want, make friends from all across the world, do what you want, and more. Take for example the word “Twitterverse” or “Twittersphere”, used to describe the spaces in which users interact on the social media platform. Meanwhile, “verse” comes from the word “universe” and is often used as a suffix to describe a specific sphere or area.
The word meta has many meanings, but in this case, its meaning is likely tied to the Ancient Greeks’ definitions of it: “beyond”, “after”, or “behind”.
“Metaverse” can be broken into “meta” and “verse”. In the dystopic, cyberpunk novel, he envisioned lifelike avatars who would meet in realistic 3D buildings and other virtual reality environments. The concept has been around since 1992 when author Neal Stephenson (who was credited with coining the term) used it in his science fiction novel “Snow Crash”. But not everyone may understand how, or even know what it means.Īnd no, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t come up with it. Newsflash: we are already living in the metaverse.
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