Metaverse — the Metaverse. A concept from the 1992 science fiction novel “Snow Crash” suddenly took off in 2021. Each way capital also end in succession, it seems that this “meta-universe” is about to be realized. There are even claims that 2021 is the first year of the meta-universe.

Just this year, tech giants from abroad to China, including Bytedance, Facebook, Tencent and Nvidia, have all announced their future development strategies for the metasurverse, which they see as the key to their future survival.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, even more ambitious, said that in the next five years, Facebook will become a “meta-universe Company”, it can be said that under the influx of capital, meta-universe has become the first track of Internet companies.

What is the meta-universe?

Have you ever seen two years before the fire of the film “the number one player,” about 2045, due to the real life boring, countless young people lost in a super hot game “oasis”, when you wear a suit, standing in a free run of the platform, a new world is presented, this new world, the universe is yuan.

In this oasis world, you can upgrade to fight monsters, but also can touch fish; Can feel the river’s lake enmity, martial arts love; You can also hide in distant valleys and enjoy the peace of picking chrysanthemums under the eastern hedge. In this world, you can do whatever you want and experience whatever you want.

For example, money in the game world can be shared with the real world, and services can be switched in the same direction. For example, you can call Didi for driving in the virtual world. The virtual world overlaps with the real world in many ways. You can log in to the online world through VR devices, computers and mobile phones at any time. You can also influence the real life through the behavior of the online world. It is born from the real world and parallel to the real world.

This is a perfect metaverse, an extension of the highly developed Internet.

Many friends ask, why do we need to explore the meta-universe when we already have the Internet? Is it just for a game?

That is certainly not, yuan the ideas of the universe, is to enhance the interconnectivity of the world, in the real world, Internet technology and the agreement itself is open, but the business world is mostly closed, the top players in the people in the virtual world, but has a unified account status, the relationship between the friends, unicom’s real-time data flow, capital flow.

This in today’s Internet world is not exist, for example, you are in the central bank’s credit status and alipay credit points, it is not each other, your COINS and WeChat Qian Bao is less, the yuan and the dollar is not real-time equivalence, the world everywhere there is friction, from company to company, international information between each has a very high barriers.

The meta-universe aims to break down this barrier by connecting all companies and people, creating new rules of commerce, finance, trade and communication, and realizing a broader Internet.

At first glance, such an idea sounds like an impossible idea, but the development of blockchain and VR technology in recent years has gradually made this idea a reality.

Already on the eve of a technological explosion

Ling Le as a conservative investor, I was stunned when I saw this concept, right? Isn’t it a VR game? What is there to brag about? VR concept has been hyped for so long, whether it is product power or practical degree, are far from reality, why now to hype? Either way, it’s a false concept.

However, after careful study, I found that the technical framework has gradually taken shape, and this elusive future may be coming true.

Blockchain has given shape to framework rules:

Among the number one players, the biggest BOSS is the game company, the god of that world, who can make the rules and change the rules. But in reality, we don’t need such a god, such a huge project, need a lot of enterprises and users to build together, need to let the mainstream technology companies to work together, to persuade global regulator, let they believe that the world of the Internet companies to build is good for society, more need to let users believe that the world has no rules, Absolute equality in some rules.

If it is in the past, there is no such technology, but the emergence of blockchain, this began to produce use scenarios, NFT (non-Fungible Token) technology can make blockchain identification as a new value bearer, so that virtual goods can be capitalized, so as to realize the value transfer of data content, avoid black box operation, the success of Bitcoin, And to remind the world that decentralization really can happen.

It can be said that the block chain technology, so that this absolutely fair business rules appeared the basic prototype.

Rapid upgrade of VR devices has been on the eve of the outbreak:

No matter how rich the content of the new world is, it needs a door to connect people and the new world, and VR devices are the door to open this new universe.

The concept of VR began to be hyped as early as 2016, but due to the low level of technology, the actual experience was not good. Facebook also realized the importance of VR equipment. They bought Oculus, a VR equipment company, for $2 billion in 2016, and invested tens of billions of dollars in VR business research and development every year. With many large manufacturers entering the market, VR equipment technology is advancing rapidly now. I went to Taobao to check the sales volume. Even this VR glasses on Facebook has more than 4,000 comments, and the sales volume on JINGdong is even higher.

Zuckerberg believes that when product sales break through 10 million, it marks the beginning of the EXPLOSION of VR market. According to market statistics, the sales of VR device Quest 2 owned by Facebook will break through 10 million by the end of this year. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is expected to reach 91.2% VR cagR in 2021. The market is on the eve of an explosion.