Metaverse – The Reality Beyond The Fantasy
Metaverse – The Reality Beyond The Fantasy
A lot has been said and written about the metaverse over the past year or so. In fact, everyone seems to have a different idea about what it is and what it will mean for our lives.
Gaming is probably the most successful metaverse model so far. Videogame-oriented platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite were built well before the term metaverse became commonplace but offer much of the functionality that’s central to the model. This includes persistent environments and the ability to adopt a consistent identity (avatar) as users move between playing, socializing, and shopping.
The most precise thing we can say about the metaverse right now is that it’s the next level of the Internet. Dr. Albert Meige, Associate Director of Arthur D. Little, states that after speaking to hundreds of technology professionals, they found that implementations of metaverse ideas generally fell into one of three categories – consumer metaverse, enterprise metaverse or industrial metaverse.
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