The Metaverse Mystery - Getting Acquainted With the New Tech

The term 'Metaverse' has been a hot topic of discussion in the early 2020's. Time and again we hear businesses investing in this futuristic technology, but not many of us have a clear understanding of how it could potentially be of viable utility to both businesses and their consumers. Let us demystify the buzzword for you in this article, without getting into the fancy definitions.

Think of a classroom in which a lesson on, let's say, the structure of volcano is being taught. The teacher decides that today she will not be using pictures and presentations to illustrate the interior of a volcano, but instead take the entire classroom inside the magma chamber which is boiling at 800° to 1000° C and have everyone closely experience the entire process of lava eruption from their own eyes.

Sounds impractical, right? Well, Metaverse can achieve this by creating an interactive 3D virtual world around you which you could experience using immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR).

This is how powerful this emerging technology is, which is set to transform businesses and create new avenues of trade and communication.

With the advent of the internet and then the social media platforms, the world came closer, got a lot more connected and consequently accessible. However, it was all still limited to our screens and Metaverse is set to take it a step further, enabling us to enter the virtual world. A medical student could actually perform a cardiac surgery on a simulator, a gamer could actually be the character he is playing in the video games, an architect could enter his designs and alter them as many times as he wishes to based on his first-hand experiences, and so on.

The Metaverse can impact our lives in profound ways and this is the reason why a lot of major technology firms are scrambling to invest in this technological upheaval. The future of Metaverse seems promising and the pace at which this technology is shaping up, a wide-scale adoption and implementation of Metaverse will soon be a living reality, or maybe to use a better phrase - a living virtual reality!