Metaverse are now everywhere. That doesn’t seem to mean that many people understand Metaverse. People are saying that Metaverse is the future but is it really the future and not just another bubble?
Metaverse refers to a world in which virtual and reality interact and evolve together, and social, economic, and cultural activities are carried out in it to create new values. Metaverse is a combination of Meta, a Greek word for “transcendence, more” and Universe, a word for “world or universe.”
Recently, CEOs of global IT companies are all sending messages to prepare, saying the era of Metaverse will come. Many argue that Metaverse will become the mainstream of the post-Internet era. This is a wrong expression. Online access to the 3D virtual world will rather require faster Internet. In other words, it means that there will be a need for a new space to solve what could not be expressed in a 2D-based web browser, not the future of the Internet.
There are several backgrounds for Metaverse to emerge as a new trend. First, it is possible to easily implement virtual reality and augmented reality that could not be solved due to technical difficulties. It is also the development of game engines that create Metaverse and facilitate content production. Through this, users can easily create their own world. Second, the emergence of the MZ generation who wants to realize their desire for secondary characters. They enter the virtual world because they want to find unmet desires in the real world and create another self.
To see the future, you should not just look at the aspect of technological development, but understand the desires of the digital native MZ generation. Metaverse is not the future to come, but the future that has already come.
Roblox of the U.S. and Geppetto of Korea have already secured many users, and Facebook’s Horizon and Nvidia’s Omniverse are appearing one after another. Technology development is also important to prepare well for the future, but it is also important to find accurate application areas.
Metaverse can create sufficient synergy effects when combined with the fields of games, cultural contents, national defense, medical care, education, manufacturing, and tourism. The best preparation is not only to have expectations and fears in the future that has already come, but also to find the application areas.
