Perhaps because of the rapidly changing nature of the metacosm concept itself, the outside world's perception of the metacosm is also rapidly changing.
Just half a month ago, Gou said in public that the metacosmonic concept would take "5 to 10 years, or even longer, to implement." However, in view of The Hon Hai Group's statement on the metacosm, he believes that "the next two major events in the industry, in addition to electric vehicles, are the metacosm, and Hon Hai will definitely launch meta-universe related products." ”
So half a month later, the subsidiary of Hon Hai Group, which he founded, began to break into the meta-universe world in a high profile, and it also joined forces with Google.
On January 4, Hon Hai Group's company, Birch Technology, announced that Google International LLC had purchased 4.88 million shares of the company's shares through a private placement at a price of NT$226.92 per share.
By that calculation, Google acquired a 4.6 percent stake in the company for $40 million, becoming its third-largest corporate shareholder. The deal is tentatively scheduled to close by Jan. 11.
According to Taiwan's "Business Times", Google and Birch Technology will further deepen cooperation in the fields of soft and hard integration platforms and industrial meta-universes.
Although the scale of Google's investment in Huahan is not large, it is the first time that Google has officially invested in a Taiwanese listed company, and the intention of the two to work together to create a meta-universe is very obvious.
Stimulated by this good news, on January 5, Birch Technology sealed the up and down board.
Hon Hai Group: Occupy the high ground of demand for the industrial meta-universe
This is not the first time that Hon Hai Group has cooperated with Google, which has been working on hardware such as Pixel mobile phones for Google.
This is not the first time that Birchhan has cooperated with Google, last October announced that it has become a strategic partner with Google Cloud to create a new business model for the digital transformation of the global open intelligent networking (AIoT) cloud platform, combining the digital as a service (DaaS) strategy and Google's advanced cloud solutions and services, and targeting 10 high-growth niche markets.
Among them, the TO B industrial meta-universe field targeted by the two companies this time may be expected to become the future demand highland.
Meta-universe technology can use real-world data 1:1 to create a virtual world, achieve a high degree of overlap with the real world, and with the support of AR, VR, AI computer vision, low-latency remote control and other technologies triggered by 5G, establish an "industrial meta-universe world".
According to Jibang Consulting, by 2025, the industrial meta-universe will promote the global intelligent manufacturing market to reach 540 billion US dollars.
Google: Can the first "meta-universe pioneers" return to the mainstream?
Compared with Microsoft and Meta, which have entered the meta-universe with a high profile, Google seems to be somewhat low-key.
But in fact, Google is the first pioneer of the meta-universe world, but the road has not been smooth.
As early as 2012, Google released a prototype of AR glasses, followed by landing in the US market in 2014.
However, it was later forced to take down because of negative news.
In 2017, Google revived its efforts to launch industrial AR glasses, but in the same year, Apple launched ARKit, which builds AR experiences for mobile phones.
A series of events have led to Google being silent in the field for several years, so now with the meta-universe boom hitting again, Google can achieve a breakthrough by joining forces?