Let’s take a closer look at the Metaverse. Speaking of blockchain and crypto, NFT has also entered our lives for a while now. We’ve heard that NFT-backed artworks are selling for insane prices. Many of you are probably wondering, “What will anyone do with a tiny, intangible digital file that cannot be hung on the wall, cannot be displayed on a coffee table?” How and why do they give so much money?
Where to display artworks purchased with NFT?
Two friends, Vignesh Sundaresan and Anand Venkateswaran, purchased Beeple’s NFT-backed digital artwork “Everydays, The First 5000 Days” for $69 million earlier this year. This work; They announced that they will exhibit it in the monument called “The Souk”, an interactive, special virtual environment, which they will launch on November 4th and designed and built by world-famous architects. There will also be exhibitions, live concerts, events and discussions at “The Souk”.
In other words, “The Souk” will be one of the pieces that make up the Metaverse, which we, as Age Provocateur, have been trying to explain as best we can for a long time. We are waiting with excitement and impatience….
So… What is the Metaverse?
The word “Metaverse” is used for the first time in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash. In his book, Stephenson discusses the theory that augmented reality and virtual reality are shared in an internet environment. After this concept entered our lives, the name of the author and his book became more well-known… For sure…
The word “Metaverse” is a new word derived from the mixture of the meanings of the words “meta” (beyond) and “universe” (universe). Metaverse is a huge alternative universe where all virtual worlds and the internet are adjacent to each other. You know, the parallel universe that we are familiar with from almost all science fiction movies… This is exactly it, the metaverse.
What’s being done in the Metaverse?
The Metaverse consists of environments where people can hang out with their friends, work, shop, go for a walk, sit in a cafe and chat, and attend events. This “metaverse” has actually only recently entered our lives. Those who know a little about computer games will know. Games that involve the player, such as LOL, Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, PUBG and Zula, already take place in the metaverse.
Are you aware? Simultaneously, many players connecting to the game from all over the world form their own teams, develop tactics and strategies with the avatars they create in the same world, and enjoy their games by chatting. These games are increasing their popularity day by day.
In April last year, the 10-minute concert given by Travis Scott in the Fortnite game was watched by 12.3 million people at the same time. ! At the same time! Ariana Grande in October 2021 and Lady Gaga in December 2021 will perform in Fortnite. Rest assured, even if these concerts were held at the Rungrado May 1st Stadium in North Korea, which is the largest stadium in the world with a capacity of 150,000 people, they could not bring together so many people simultaneously and interactively.
And of course it couldn’t be talked about that much. For this reason, these games in the metaverse will be “new entertainment environments” beyond the computer games that only young people enjoy. Very soon, we will all meet somewhere in the metaverse and go to the movies, concerts, cafes. We will play swamp with each other, consume virtual products and drinks of various brands, and dress our avatars in specially designed costumes of brands that we may not be able to afford in real life. Maybe we will take a stroll in the forest and hear the splashing sounds of the waterfalls only here! Sound familiar?
Yes, the film “Ready Player One” is not actually science fiction! The idea of creating an alternative, digital universe is not new. It has always existed in games and websites.
Let’s not be late to enter Metaverse! It is time to Metaver.
When Google entered our lives 22 years ago, would it come to your mind that it would be the first source of consulted by replacing the square Larousse in everyone’s house? Today, the square is located in our homes like a trinket that adorns our libraries.
Amazon, which is a translation shopping store, started its trade for the first time 27 years ago, no one would believe that the internet would be a new generation market place and no one trusts. Today we all see the point where e-commerce comes.
Facebook entered our lives in 2004. It’s only 17 years. Today, it was one of the main sources of communication that no one can give up from 7 to 70, and everyone heard from each other.
Facebook purchased Oculus, a company that produces virtual reality glasses, for $ 2 billion in 2014, and since then, Horizon Workspaces launched last month, a digital world where people could interact using VR technology. We will now live in Horizon, which is a metavers instead of a phone.
For now, it sounds frightening to all of us. Even to me! But we are moving into an inevitable reality. Experts say that with the change of the world online, people want to create unique digital identities and experiences and exhibit them. TO! Isn’t our lives on social media a proof of this?
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