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How many universes are there in the "metaverse"?

In 2021, Facebook officially changed its name to Meta, making the concept of the metaverse a household name. You must have a little understanding of this concept, but you still don't know much about it. If you don't believe me, I'll ask you a question. How many universes are there in the Metaverse?

That's a good question.

Today we will talk about the "metaverse" together.

1. Why can Facebook engage in the Metaverse?

Let’s talk about the first question first, let’s start with facebook’s name change to Meta. Some people ask, why can Facebook engage in the Metaverse? Just change the name of your company to a new era collective name, this is not the case that no other company can engage in the metaverse. Stop, stop, this knowledge is learned. The Meta that Facebook changed its name to is not called "Metaverse", but "Meta". Metaverse is the metaverse, where Meta is "meta" and Verse is "universe".

So it's not that only Facebook can do the metaverse. Facebook's name change to Meta is actually to snatch traffic, that is, to rub a keyword in the word Metaverse. Just like for example, companies that do blockchain will call the company's name block, and companies that do artificial intelligence will call the company's name AI.

Other companies can also create a metaverse. It doesn't mean that Facebook is called Meta, and it directly monopolizes the market.

So when we get here, another question arises: the concept of metaverse, the name should be like there is only one universe, but if every company can create a metaverse, how many metaverses are there?

Before answering this question, we must first consider a few questions.

2. What is the relationship between the Metaverse and web3?

The two concepts of metaverse and web3 became popular at about the same time, and many people do not understand what the relationship between these two concepts is.

Let's talk about what web 3.0 is first, and then to understand this concept, we must start with Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.

The theory says:

Web 1.0 is created by the platform and enjoyed by the platform;

Web 2.0 is created by users and enjoyed by the platform;

Web 3.0 is created by users and enjoyed by users.

In layman's terms, Web 1.0 is Sina and Sohu, Web 2.0 is QQ and WeChat, and Web 3.0 is the metaverse that everyone is now envisioning.

To give another example, Web 1.0 is Super Mario, Web 2.0 is King of Glory, and Web 3.0 is a large-scale endless interactive game of real people.

Others express the difference between these concepts in a clever way.

Web1 is "what you see is what you get".

Web2 is "what you recommend is what you get."

Web3 is "build is what you get".

In any case, the relationship between web3 and the metaverse is that web3 is limited in time, and the metaverse is limited in space. When they are added together, the final form of blockchain technology will be expressed. Given dead from time and space.

3. Is the decentralization of the metaverse theoretically reasonable?

Decentralization, the data is no longer stored by a large platform organization, everyone will have all the data, and our user information will no longer be used by the platform as a profit-making tool in the era of big data, does it sound right? awesome? This is a must-have line for any propaganda blockchain-related technology, but after hearing this, I just want to ask two questions:

Who Cares?

So what?

We are indeed living in a centralized world, ranging from countries, governments, companies, consortia, and governments to communities, classes, and even everyone's family. And those central institutions take advantage of their centralized status to take advantage of many ordinary participants. However, this centralized structure is still the most suitable way for human society to operate. Human society has been centralized since its birth. People in primitive society formed tribes to resist foreign enemies. In modern society, we are also countries one by one. Development and operation for the unit. If all things were equal, it might seem possible to make each individual more comfortable in the little things, but it would never be possible to concentrate on the big things.

Just imagine if human society has achieved complete decentralization, then who will build the highway? Who will dispatch resources in the event of a disaster? Who will stop the crime?

Who really wants to store everyone else's information on their home server? Occupy your own home bandwidth, internet speed, and electricity bills to record every transaction of others?

4. How far is the Metaverse at the technical level?

There is one answer I can give you guys straight away - it's far, far, far away.

Let’s talk about the VR glasses first. To tell you the truth, seven years ago, when I came to the United States, the last wave of VR craze in Silicon Valley was the most popular. At that time, I was in the circle of startups every day. From that day to night, it was VR and VR. .

Have you ever worn those VR glasses? One minute dizzy, 2 minutes very dizzy, 3 minutes very dizzy, 4 minutes quite dizzy, 5 minutes hopelessly dizzy.

Some people say that VR emerged in 2012, and the bubble burst in 2016, but I tell you, this VR in 2012 is actually a fried rice for the failure of VR in the 1990s. It has been less than 10 years now, and I took out this cold rice and fried it again.

And what about fried rice this time? I don't see anything new.

What will VR glasses look like in 2016?

What do the VR glasses made by Meta look like now? so.

Is there any difference other than the color being a little different? I didn't see it. And according to friends who have used Meta's VR glasses, after using it, it is still more dizzy and dizzy.

To be honest, all of these virtual reality technologies are still in the stage of children's toys.

And, even if it doesn't get dizzy, speak with conscience. With such a big shell on his head, he also has two handcuffs on his hands. This is the only way to synchronize your hands and eyes with the world of the Metaverse. So everyone will see that the characters in Zuckerberg's Meta promotional video have facial expressions and hand movements, but they are relatively simple, and there is no movement below the waist. Then if you really want to achieve an immersive experience of the whole body, you need to connect the induction devices to the main parts of the body, just a bunch of small pieces and a bunch of connecting wires, just like the one who entered the ICU. Then you say it's a sense of immersion or a sense of violation, it's really hard to say.

In fact, if you want to truly realize the so-called immersive experience of the Metaverse, you can't need these devices, but at least what? Naked-eye 3D, as far as this technology is concerned, so far humans still have no clue. You want to say that the one who made a hologram for Teresa Teng in Japan, go and investigate for yourself what happened. I won't go too far here.

5. How many universes are there in the Metaverse?

Well, finally, let's answer the question at the beginning. How many universes are there in the metaverse? In the end there is only one metaverse, but until that day comes, we will see many different people create different metaverses in their minds, which is the real one, which is the fake one, which is the let It is difficult for us to see clearly the metaverse of the Great Harmony of the World. How far can the metaverse go? All I can say is, I don't know how far I can go, but if I can go far, it must go far, far.