Tencent: Social-driven metaverse
The "Super QQ" show of the Spring Festival in 2022 subverted people's perception of traditional QQ. Users can socialize in the virtual space through virtual identities, which cannot be described as Tencent's breakthrough innovation on QQ.
In June 2022, Tencent set up a special "extended reality" department to officially bet on the virtual world from the organizational form;
In September 2022, Tencent officially released the True Internet White Paper, clarifying its views on the metaverse and its future development path.
In December 2022, Tencent announced its support for the metaverse platform Metalife, and announced the upcoming launch of XR WeChat Mini Program in the WeChat official team open community.
Baidu: Technology drives the metaverse
The "Intel Technology Experience Center" jointly built by Baidu Xiyang officially landed on the Baidu Xiyang Metaverse platform to explore the innovative model of the digital exhibition hall of metaverse technology. This is the technology represented by the intelligent cloud behind Baidu.
Moutai Group metaverse game
"Xunfeng Digital World" restores the three major handicraft workshops of "Chengyi Roasting Workshop, Ronghe Roasting Workshop, and Hengxing Roasting Workshop", the origin of modern Moutai wine, as well as the surrounding landscape. Players can explore, explore, socialize, shop, do quests, and more in this "parallel world".
ByteDance: Attack the metaverse in an all-round way
In January 2022, the company launched the social APP Party Island, calling Baidu's Greek platform, providing a series of functions such as avatars and social networking, and the silent battlefield between Byte and Baidu has quietly begun.
In March 2022, ByteDance's self-research team has been developing VR-related content within Lightyear. Since the beginning of this year, Byte has not only invested 100 million yuan in the main meta-universe concept game company Code, but also spent 4 billion US dollars to acquire game company Mu Pu Technology, competing with Tencent in the game field.
In June 2022, ByteDance acquired Beijing Wave Particle Technology Co., Ltd. and began to get involved in two-dimensional virtual networking; ByteDance's virtual idol girl group A-Soul also officially settled on the Pico platform and held its first VR night talk on the evening of June 17. And on June 23, the Pico friend function was launched, further improving social attributes. Began to invade Tencent's social territory.
In September 2022, PICO released the upgraded product PICO 4 VR all-in-one machine, and in the past 2022, the products of the PICO series have been firmly grasping the top position in the domestic market share, leading competitors in terms of metaverse entrance.
CyberWorld Former Universe
CyberHash Limited is the core project of the CyberHash Metaverse Business Unit, headquartered in Singapore, and has two core businesses, the first is distributed storage, including full-stack service capabilities for node design, construction, management and cluster operation. And it is the first company in the world to provide real-world data storage, providing backup and storage of redundant data and long-tail data for large enterprises. The second is the business in the field of Web 3.0 and metaverse, the company has set up a metaverse business department, and gathered an international front-line engineer team to explore the application development of Web 3.0 and cutting-edge business applications (NFT, metaverse)
Cyberhash was led by Alex Zhu and injected $20 million through Lemon Capital. Alex Zhu is the co-founder of Musical.ly.
Team background
CyberHash has a strong engineering culture, and its team members have worked in IBM, AWS Amazon Cloud, Lark Feishu, TikTok Singapore, Tencent, Blizzard Entertainment, SuperCell Super Cell, Dota 2, Rovio, Cheetah Mobile and other enterprises, engaged in IT, distributed storage, cloud computing, social and game platforms and other technical fields, with rich experience in Internet development.
CyberWorld is currently focusing on three main sectors:
1, CyberLand (CyberIsland) Web3 social, positioned in Web3 IM chat, it is an independent section, we believe that after a period of iteration, our IM functions, UI and UE will reach the level of the industry, in terms of security, to achieve Web2 many chat software does not have privacy and security; At the same time, in terms of experience, it is necessary to achieve the experience of Web2 chat software, which is the next key work.
2, multi-chain decentralized wallet as a payment tool, in terms of decentralized wallet, we used Imtoken and other wallets at the beginning, in the security must first be sufficiently secure, and then mainly do a good job in ease of use and Web3 payment tool positioning optimization, on the multi-chain wallet to do superposition.
3, Discover discovery section: decentralized applications & DAO Project, in addition to the traditional wallet project introduced some mainstream third-party applications, we will create some personalized applications based on two aspects, are linked to the product in the form of contracts and agreements, such as the current CyberUP, CyberSapce and CyberBunny and other cyber products, and then based on the actual needs of DAO, DAO proposes products. The DAO Project, which provides technical support and is owned by the DAO, is also the next focus to build.