What is the Metaverse used for?

The Metaverse is the evolution of the Internet with virtual spaces linked to each other, where connected individuals will be able to interact in an experiential experience.

In the words of Zuckerberg himself, the Metaverse “is a group of virtual spaces where you can generate and explore with other people who are not in the same physical space as you”.

The Metaverse will rely heavily on the latest virtual reality (VR) technologies since it will be how users will be able to inhabit these virtual spaces through devices with this technology.

Origin of the Metaverse

The progress of technology has led to techniques that surprise us today, such as AI (artificial intelligence) or virtual reality, which will continue to evolve, especially towards a transformation associated with the world of the Internet.

The concept of Metaverse was used in 1992 in a novel by Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, which explains a virtual place that converges with the physical.

It was not until the emergence of the web and the progress of the internet that the Metaverse became a reality.

Facebook was not the first to place the issue of Metaverse in public criticism, many organizations are already investing and generating efforts for the work and promotion of the spheres in these virtual spaces.

What is the Metaverse for?

The construction of scenarios and virtual universes where each individual creates his or her avatar and interacts with other users is nothing new. Meta is intended to bring together this kind of universe with Internet browsing and virtual reality.

This choice takes on particular significance if we analyze that, after a year of pandemic disease and remote work, the company launched Horizon Workrooms in August 2021, which, using virtual reality glasses, enables users to enter virtual meeting rooms to interact with other colleagues.

The Metaverse serves to enlarge occupations and remove geographic boundaries, seeking to bring individuals together by simply connecting to the network, where they will be able to interact at a different levels.

How the Metaverse works 

The Metaverse is already operating today, although they are temporary or exclusive virtual spaces for a specific environment.

Organizations, organisms, and individuals develop virtual spaces or dynamics over virtual societies that are already operating. Individuals connect to the Internet and can participate in such spaces and societies in the enormous cosmos of the network.

To understand how this works, let’s look at some key insights:

• Once the Metaverse is a pervasive reality, it will be a virtual world with diverse realms, societies, and spaces.

• The avatar will move in the virtual world, he will select in which societies and environments he will interact.

• In the Metaverse, it will be possible to notice different virtual objects and carry out occupations such as visiting a concert, selling something, conversing with someone, learning, and having a meeting, and each one of the occupations that are carried out on the physical planet and even more, because in the virtual world there are no parameters.

• As an example, in a virtual environment, you visit a house, observe it and buy it, and later on the physical planet you will receive the keys and you will have the possibility of moving to the acquired property.