Ma Huateng's metaverse dream

In fact, Ma Huateng's metaverse dream began when the concept of the true Internet was proposed. It's just that people at that time didn't understand what he called the "true Internet" was, so they blindly compared it with the "new retail" in Ma Yun's mouth.

Although this kind of assumption of benchmarking is quite reasonable, if it is only to equate Ma Huateng's true Internet with Ma Yun's new retail, it is obvious that Ma Huateng's ambition is underestimated. Because Ma Huateng's true Internet is not just a existence limited to a certain industry, but has a certain universal significance.

When the development of the metaverse gradually becomes clear, especially when more and more players begin to join the ranks of the metaverse, people have a deeper understanding of the true Internet. As a result, many people began to marvel that Ma Huateng's true Internet was not the predecessor of the metaverse?

Indeed, Ma Huateng's true Internet is really the precursor of the metaverse. Just looking at the beautiful imagination of the combination of virtual and real that the metaverse shows us, and just looking at the solutions to many Internet ills that we see in the metacosm, we can completely confirm this judgment. Since the True Internet is the predecessor of the metaverse, why hasn't Tencent been fully engaged in it like Facebook?

In fact, this is a misunderstanding of Tencent.

When Ma Huateng proposed the concept of the true Internet, Tencent has been moving forward towards the way and method of finding the combination of virtual and real. Whether it is in the research and development and application of new technologies, or the creation of business ecology, Tencent has been developing in the direction of avoiding virtual reality in recent years. In other words, Tencent has been looking for the best way and method to combine virtual and real, and has really found some opportunities.

A few days ago, Tencent Tang Daosheng said that Tencent has been looking for ways and means to return to the entity and serve the entity. Undoubtedly, this is the best evidence of Ma Huateng's true Internet. It is foreseeable that as Tencent returns to the entity and explores more and more service entities, we will see more new trends emerge.

For some time, the concept of metaversity has continued to be popular, and more and more people have begun to focus their attention on China's leading technology companies represented by Tencent and Ali. At this time, many of Tencent's product designs and product ideas related to the metacosm began to benchmark with the metacosm. Therefore, a question came to my mind: What is Ma Huateng's metaverse dream?

I think that Ma Huateng's meta-universe dream is more of a derivative of Tencent's product itself. Whether it is the early QQ or the later WeChat, we can see that Ma Huateng is trying a little bit in the pursuit of the metaverse. The immaturity of technology and the incomplete application are the key to the fact that Ma Huateng's metaverse dream has never been realized.

However, this does not affect Ma Huateng's exploration of the metaverse in the slightest, whether it is the early QQ, or the later WeChat and the true Internet, we can see that Ma Huateng has a relatively clear judgment on social networking and the Internet. As for why Tencent has not realized Ma Huateng's dream, one of the important reasons is that the Internet and other technologies have not really developed to a mature stage.

When the concept of the metaverse exploded, Ma Huateng's dream of the metaverse had a new opportunity to realize.

First of all, after the baptism of the PC era and the Internet era, the needs of users have begun to undergo a deep transformation. Traditional ways and methods alone can no longer meet their needs, and the emergence of many "new"-led concepts that we have seen is a direct manifestation of this phenomenon.

Using new supply to meet the new needs of users has become the consensus of the industry. The metaverse caters to this trend and is beginning to really get involved. For Tencent, it is also facing transformation. Although it has a huge amount of traffic, the silence of these flows reflects the emergence of new demand and the drawbacks of old supply to some extent.

Through the combination of virtual and real in the meta-universe and the immersive product experience, it is undoubtedly possible to reactivate Tencent's own huge traffic, thereby releasing new energy. From this point of view, Ma Huateng's long-term dream of the meta-universe has the basic conditions for realization.

Second, new technologies have developed to the point where the melon is ripe. Whether it is the PC era or the mobile Internet era, every development and transmutation is derived from new technologies. In other words, the development of new technologies has matured, and finally created the emergence of one era after another. The same is true for the metacosm.

When it comes to metaverses, many people just see it as exclusive to a certain technology, such as the exclusive blockchain, such as the exclusive AR. In fact, this view of the metaverse is very incorrect. In many cases, one of the important reasons why the concept of metaversity appears is that many new technologies have developed to the stage of development of melon ripeness, and have really begun to deeply integrate and deeply apply.

In this context, Tencent is not alone. It is the layout of new technologies, and it is also the application of new technologies. For Ma Huateng, no matter what, social is the core of the business empire he has built. Therefore, by integrating these new technologies and truly allowing them to transform traditional social networking, it will undoubtedly open up a new situation in Tencent's development and realize Ma Huateng's dream of the meta-universe.

Third, the metaverse and the true Internet have similarities. Although the concept of a metacosm is not the first of Tencent, in recent years, Tencent has been carrying out related layouts. Strictly speaking, Tencent's layout is derived around the true Internet. As mentioned above, the True Internet is the predecessor of the Metaverse, so to some extent, Tencent's layout on the True Internet has paved the way for the realization of Ma Huateng's dream of the Metaverse.

Now, Tencent's tentacles have been deeply rooted in social, entertainment, games, retail, finance and many other industries, with its in-depth layout in the industrial ecology, Tencent can naturally enter the meta-universe battle, and really blow the horn into the meta-universe, and even can be said to be able to incorporate the meta-universe into the concept of the true Internet. In my opinion, the full Internet is a concept richer than the metacosm.

When the metaverse began to explode, more and more people compared it with the early QQ, which was taken for granted. In a sense, the current state of development of the metaverse is somewhat similar to the early QQ. In a sense, Ma Huateng's metaverse dream may have begun to appear from the early QQ. With the continuous evolution of the Internet and the ripening of new technologies, Ma Huateng's dream of the metaverse has the possibility of realization, perhaps, this is the so-called do not forget the original heart, to always have it!