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What is the metaverse? From Virtual Reality, NFTs and Millions

by Margharet Tess
March 31, 2022
in Attractions
Reading Time: 6 mins read

Table of Contents

  • Who comes first …
  • VR is becoming socially acceptable
  • The smartphone thanks you
  • Crypto economy instead of platform capitalism
  • Moths to the light
  • NFTs as a link in the metaverse
  • “A win-win-win situation”
  • Prosperity for all in the Metaverse?

During the 19th-century gold rush, thousands of fortune hunters flocked to America’s West Coast, establishing villages that became cities and eventually metropolises – like San Francisco – leaving behind ghost towns in search of El Dorado. The boomtowns, some of which are still intact today, tell stories of the desire for prosperity, of rise and fall, the prospect of a better life and the bitter realization of having hunted a ghost. Most El Dorados turned out to be mirages.

200 years later, the search for the new El Dorado has begun: the metaverse, the virtual space in which the boundaries between the physical and the digital are blurred by augmented and virtual reality processes (AR/VR), new economies and networks are emerging, is expanding Relocate parts of social life – and the big techs ram their pickaxes.

Who comes first …

Microsoft has let the future business with the takeover of Activision Blizzard cost 69 billion US dollars, while Facebook is developing a supercomputer that is supposed to handle the computing power for the virtuality that connects everything – and it’s no longer called Facebook, but Meta. Game developer Epic Games is pushing with the takeover from Harmonix to the Metaverse and chip manufacturer Nvidia has already set foot in the virtual economy with the Omniverse platform.

Why it is better for companies to set up their platform monopolies in virtual reality too soon than too late can be explained by looking at the profit prospects. Loud Bloomberg the “metaverse global revenue potential” will grow to $800 billion as early as 2024. The analysis company Market Research Future attested the market will grow by 41 percent by 2030. And the largest digital asset manager, Grayscale, comes in one report concluded that “the market opportunity to bring the Metaverse to life could generate more than $1 trillion in annual sales.” Everyone agrees: The Metaverse is growing, and tech companies want the largest possible share of it.

VR is becoming socially acceptable

The Metaverse effort is finding a growing community response. The willingness to use the still new AR and VR technologies is increasing rapidly, according to a study by the digital association Bitkom displays. According to the survey, 16 percent of all Germans over the age of 16 already have AR experience, and over a third want to use the technology in the future.

The Germans seem even more receptive to virtual reality. 17 percent already use VR glasses, 41 percent have an “interest in using them”. The main area of ​​application for both technologies is in gaming, but the technologies are also being increasingly used in education and for social activities such as visiting concerts and exhibitions.

The smartphone thanks you

AR, VR and MR may still be exotic, the integration and implementation so far more of a “demo version” of what is possible, but its presence in everyday life is increasing – and the other hype technology of recent years is gradually disappearing repress from the public. “In ten years the center of our digital life will no longer be the smartphone, but perhaps devices that look like ordinary glasses but have settings for virtual and augmented reality”..

According to the digital association, when viewed through the glasses, “reality and computer-generated illusion” will “be so mixed up that they can hardly be distinguished from one another”. Reality is catching up with the sci-fi literature: “We will make things happen through eye movement or through brainwaves”, and although spatially separated, we can “touch and feel each other through haptic technology”.

Crypto economy instead of platform capitalism

Mass metaverse or orphaned VR boomtowns: Ultimately, it is the users who decide on the success of 3D worlds. While demand is increasing, “mass involvement will only be possible by trusting businesses and encouraging a change in consumer behavior,” asset manager CoinShares put in one report prophesied.

This is where the crypto economy shows its strengths as a decentralized counterweight to the platform capitalism of the big tech data octopuses. Decentraland, Axie Infinity or The Sandbox: On the back of blockchain technology, the first VR worlds suitable for the masses show which community-controlled alternatives to the monopolists are opening up. In them, the users who benefit first and foremost are those who are an active part of a growing economic simulation according to the play-to-earn principle – with real benefits.

In the Philippines, the Pokémon-meets-crypto game Axie Infinity has already established itself as a source of income. Many who lost their jobs due to the pandemic cover their daily necessities with income from the blockchain game. Before the typhoon disaster in December, about 40 percent of all Axie Infinity gamers came from the Philippines, prompting the island nation with a tax levied specifically on Axie earnings has earned.

Moths to the light

The gigantic money printing machine is also driven by the digital nomads of Generation Z and content creators who enliven virtual spaces. “The transition to the Metaverse will be primarily determined by the speed of development of personal avatars and virtual worlds and what they offer,” says Fabian Heuschele, CEO and co-founder of the content monetization platform Fanbase, to BTC-ECHO. Although platforms benefit first and foremost, “the change from the creator’s dependence on brands and campaigns to free design without being dependent on advertising partners has long been initiated”.

Rory Kenny, CEO of AI-powered music platform Loudly, told BTC-ECHO that “One of the strongest bridges into the Metaverse are creators, creating their own virtual spaces where their communities reside, connect and access the creator directly be able”. They have a magnet function, build networks and tie their followers to platforms. “Creators have great interest, zeitgeist and influence over audience behavior and virtual location – so when creators start migrating to Metaverse platforms, there is a high likelihood that their audience will follow.”

NFTs as a link in the metaverse

A gradual process, says Kenny: “The transition from today’s social media to the Metaverse will be challenging for many creators.” The business models of social media could not simply be slipped over the metaverse. “The creators that thrive in the Metaverse will likely pick up on emerging trends that are specific to the Metaverse and have nothing to do with what’s happening on Youtube or Instagram and TikTok.” The Metaverse is “an entirely new terrain, and a new category of creators will emerge.”

NFTs play a key role in this. The digital certificates of authenticity enable the direct trading, distribution and marketing of digital content, from music to art to collectibles – digital artefacts for avatars – and already serve a mass market. About the two largest NFT marketplaces on ETH, OpenSea and Rarible, according to CoinShares, 80.5 million NFTs have now been sold. A total sales volume of 10.3 billion US dollars.

“A win-win-win situation”

For Kenny, the Metaverse offers a tremendous opportunity that is not only profitable for the big platforms. “The win-win-win situation will be this: a win for the creators, a win for the audience and a win for the commercial platforms”. The respective profit expectations are closely intertwined.

“Creatives are only successful when they reach a large enough audience and find a way to monetize the value they create through commercial infrastructure. Audiences only show up when they can see the value of the creator’s content, which the infrastructure provides. The infrastructure can only exist if it facilitates the relationship between creator and audience”.

Prosperity for all in the Metaverse?

It remains to be seen whether the sales are really distributed fairly. By choosing one of the two opposite poles, users have a decisive influence on the metaverse design. The crypto economy provides the basis for self-governing economic cycles, in which users also participate, but struggles with graphically rather clumsy implementations that – not yet – can compete with the developer studios of triple-A publishers and IT companies. There are investment gaps here that could possibly be filled by DAOs – decentralized counterparts to venture capitalists.

Profit-oriented companies, on the other hand, have no interest in redistribution and will largely dictate applications, media content, the monetization of it and the way data is shared on their platforms. They have the greater network effects and investment funds to build a metaverse for the masses.

The question of who benefits most from the Metaverse remains open at first. In many ways, the Metaverse is still a dream, and the VR worlds have yet to live up to the hype. Even in virtuality, not everything that glitters today turns to gold. Whether the Metaverse can keep the promises that the advertising and entertainment industries hope for, or face the same fate as the boomtowns, is ultimately in the hands of the users.

This article was published on January of this year. It has been reviewed and adjusted accordingly for re-publication.

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Margharet Tess
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I have been active in the cryptocurrency world for over 6 years, during which I have written countless articles about this sector. What fascinates me most about cryptocurrencies is their technological aspect and the problems they aim to solve. In the past three years, I have ventured into app development and am currently working on a larger project called P2E Buzzer. Stay tuned for the surprise. 🙂 My previous experiences: Business2Community.com, TradingPlatforms.com
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