IT Home January 4 news, today some netizens found that NetEase Planet Blockchain released a number of blockchain and meta-universe related recruitment information, including blockchain system / application development, blockchain system testing, blockchain product operation and market commerce (meta-universe / NFT direction) and so on.
It is understood that NetEase Planet Blockchain is a strategic business department under the NetEase Thunder Fire Division, established in 2017, dedicated to reshaping the digital economy trust system, all in-depth layout of the metacosm, business coverage of the metacosmity of multiple key technology directions, including digital collection platform (NFT), blockchain + games, digital copyright and judicial depository services, distributed digital identity (DID), etc.
It is reported that the concept of the metaverse began in 1992 with the science fiction novel "Avalanche" created by American writer Neil Stephenson. In the book, Stephenson depicts a surrealist digital space "Metaverse" where people who are blocked by geographic space can interact with each other through their respective "avatars", spend leisure time, and dispose of their own income at will.
IT House has reported that Xinhua News Agency previously quoted a number of interviewees as saying that the meta-universe, as the carrier of the integration of the virtual world and the real world, contains great opportunities for social, content, games, office and other scenario changes, and is a new Internet application and social form produced by the integration of various new technologies such as blockchain.
However, today's so-called metaversics are still in their early stages of technology, and most companies are just getting started.
Professor Zhu Jiaming, director of the Academic and Technical Committee of the Digital Asset Research Institute, once said that the connotation of "metaverse" is to absorb the information revolution (5G / 6G), the Internet revolution (web3.0), the artificial intelligence revolution, and the virtual reality technology revolution including VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality), MR (mixed reality), especially game engines. ”