How to become a metaverse infrastructure provider? Today, I will talk about it, for enterprises, building an information base platform is an opportunity, including blockchain, VR/AR, etc. The implementation of these technologies can help companies grasp the foundation for building the metaverse and have more say.
Think about search engines, satellite navigation and autonomous driving in the metaverse dimension
Search engines, satellite navigation, and autonomous driving are the key areas that people focus on today, how will they change in the metaverse era?
1. Search engine
The construction of the metaverse requires a large number of digital builders. In the past, users were rarely deeply involved in the infrastructure of the Internet, allowing Internet giants to control the traffic entrance, resulting in the inefficient flow of data. In the metaverse era based on Web 3.0, users become Internet creators and builders, spontaneously creating digital content. Perhaps the metaverse does not refer to simple technological integration, but to build a scene, an open ecology that integrates virtual and reality.
Search engines in the metaverse are like satellites in the sky, able to guide users' lives across time and space. Search engines will become representative applications for collecting and aggregating information, integrating all traceable data, allowing users to interact efficiently with content and keeping information in the virtual world organized.
2. Satellite navigation
The continent's Beidou satellite is also one of the supporting technologies of the metaverse. In addition to communication support, the real role of Beidou satellites in the metaverse is to realize digital twins, allowing the real world and virtual world to be fully synchronized. For example, we can remotely turn off the stove at home in the field to avoid the occurrence of fire; Doctors can perform surgery remotely for surgery, so that remote areas can also enjoy the medical resources of big cities; Factories can monitor production activities in real time, freeing up manpower and allowing all employees to work from home. This means that satellite technology can realize the vision of the metaverse, which is that everything is connected, making the real distance zero.
3. Autonomous driving
Autonomous driving is an area that many people focus on, but at present, the high cost of autonomous driving hardware equipment, imperfect software systems, and scarcity of road test conditions still exist, and if the metaverse becomes a reality, these problems will be solved.
In real life, the design and testing of self-driving cars is a complex process, and the continuous iterative upgrading of hardware equipment also requires a lot of manpower and material resources. In the metaverse, all designs, tests and updates can be solved with just a few lines of code, without causing any substantial waste of resources.
In order to ensure the safety of autonomous driving, self-driving cars need to systematically learn a large amount of road data, at least 18 billion kilometers of road tests, and learn how to deal with various road conditions. But now the autonomous driving test area opened has a single scene and cannot cover various special road conditions. The metaverse can make up for this shortcoming, and the metaverse can simulate a street for autonomous driving road testing, allowing self-driving cars to enter various road conditions on simulated roads to quickly obtain data on different road conditions.
From routers to blockchains, network core technology logic migration
In a McKinsey research report, blockchain is the technology with the most potential to trigger a wave of disruption after the steam engine, electricity, and the Internet. To understand the historical status and trend of blockchain, we must first understand the history of the development of the core technology of the network.
In 1969, the Internet was born in the United States, first used in the military and science and technology fields, and then expanded to all aspects of human life. In the process of the development of the Internet, there are 5 technologies that are of great significance to the development of blockchain.
1. TCP/IP protocol: determines the position of blockchain in the Internet ecology
In 1974, American scientists Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn developed the core communication technology of the Internet - TCP/IP protocol, which realized the transmission of information between different networks. As long as computers connected to the network follow this protocol, they can communicate with each other. Simply put, this protocol is a unified information dissemination mechanism in the Internet world, which allows data to travel thousands of miles and be seen by computer users.
After the invention of the TCP/IP protocol, the underlying infrastructure of the entire Internet and the communication protocol in the middle layer have been relatively stable, but innovative applications have continued to emerge from top-level applications, including e-commerce, social networks, blockchain, etc. In other words, blockchain is located at the top application layer in the Internet ecosystem, and its operation and development do not affect the infrastructure and communication protocols, and also operate in accordance with the TCP/IP protocol.
2. Router technology: the imitation object of blockchain technology
In 1984, Leonard Bossac and Santie Lerner designed networking devices called "multiprotocol routers" that could help accurately and quickly transmit Internet data from one end to the other thousands of kilometers away.
In the Internet hardware layer, tens of millions of routers direct the transmission of information. Each router maintains a complete list of Internet device addresses, which are immediately synchronized to other routers when changes occur, ensuring that each router can calculate the shortest path for information transmission.
The operation process of the router is an important feature of the blockchain, that is, decentralization. Each node information self-verifies, transmits, and manages, even if the node device is damaged or hacked, it will not affect the overall information transmission.
3. B/S architecture: the object of blockchain subversion
The B/S architecture of the Internet, that is, the centralized architecture, is the most important architecture of the Internet at present, and Internet giants such as Meta (formerly Facebook), Tencent, and Alibaba have adopted this architecture.
The data of the B/S architecture is only stored on the central server, while all other computers need to obtain information from the central server, which is the opposite of the important feature of blockchain decentralization. Blockchain does not have a central server, all data will be synchronized to all computers, so blockchain can be said to be a subversion of the traditional B/S architecture.
4. Peer-to-peer network: the technical basis of blockchain
Peer-to-peer networking is another type of Internet infrastructure that corresponds to B/S architecture. It is characterized by the fact that computers that are connected to each other are all in a peer-to-peer position. A computer can be used both as a server, sharing resources for use by other computers, and as a workstation. Blockchain is an application of peer-to-peer network architecture, and its emergence has also ushered in an outbreak of peer-to-peer networking.
5. Hash algorithm: the key to token generation
The hash algorithm is an algorithm that converts a number of arbitrary length into a fixed-length numeric value using a hash function. Hashing algorithms are essential to the functioning of the world, from internet app stores, emails to browsers, etc. It can tell if a user downloaded something they wanted, and it can tell if a user has suffered a phishing attack.
A token is a negotiable cryptographic digital certificate issued in a blockchain that can represent equity and value. Blockchain rewards participants by issuing tokens. The process of generating the blockchain token is calculated using the hash algorithm. After obtaining a number that meets the requirements through hashing algorithms, the blockchain produces token rewards.
Since the birth of the Internet, human beings have continued to innovate the Internet from different directions, from TCP/IP protocols, routers to blockchains, the Internet is developing towards a freer and more open path.
From game consoles to metaverse entrances, the evolution path of VR/AR technology
Immersive experience is one of the fundamental characteristics of the metaverse, and VR/AR devices are the necessary hardware to support immersive experience and a key interface to the metaverse.
VR/AR devices have always been regarded as game consoles by the public, mostly used in the field of games, and because of their high price and high requirements, they are only popular among a small audience. In the meta-universe era, VR/AR devices will become productivity tools like computers and mobile phones, and each person is indispensable. At present, VR/AR devices under the metaverse concept have begun to appear.
Facebook proposed at the Connect 2021 conference that it will launch Project Cambira, a short-throw VR all-in-one machine, in 2022. This VR all-in-one machine adopts Pancake optical solution and has color perspective function, which is not only a game console, but also can be used in office, conference and other scenarios.
New VR/AR devices will not only increase the popularity of VR/AR devices, but also provide a new path for the company's operating model. Perhaps the companies of the future will no longer need offices, but will be able to complete production entirely in virtual space, and people's choice of work will no longer be limited by geographical location.
But at present, we must also look at VR/AR equipment from a rational and developmental perspective. From a technical point of view, today's VR/AR devices have rough picture quality and poor experience effects, and users will have a strong sense of vertigo after use, which simply cannot meet the immersion required by the metaverse. In addition, most VR/XR devices are too large to be carried around and used, and they are still not as popular as mobile phones in a short period of time.
In terms of content, today's VR/XR devices have a small content volume and low playability, and the content related to it is still mainly games, with fewer applications in other fields and rough production. For example, Meta's Horizon Worlds was dubbed a semi-finished product by users because the characters were only 'half-cut'.
Although VR/AR devices are a key area for the development of the metaverse, their development still has a long way to go. First of all, the sense of experience is comprehensively improved, and the picture presentation should achieve a clarity that is difficult for the human eye to distinguish; Secondly, reduce the size and portability like a mobile phone or watch for people to enter the metaverse anytime, anywhere; Finally, build a content ecology, cover all fields, and support people's various behavioral activities. As a result, VR/XR devices can truly become the entrance to the metaverse.
From Facebook to Meta, mobile Internet development recognised
Mark Zuckerberg proposed at the Facebook Connect 2021 conference that Facebook will change its name to Meta and fully enter the metaverse. This move shows Meta's ambitions and its recognition of the metaverse as the next generation of the Internet. In order to realize this vision, Meta has begun a multi-party layout, and the following analyzes the development potential of the metaverse from the products that Meta is building.
1. Socialize
From text to voice to video, social applications have continued to evolve in recent years, with increasing immersion and realism, and in the metaverse, social experiences may be infinitely close to the real world, and people can communicate not only with voice and video, but also with eyes and movements. Meta's Horizon Home is a social platform that helps people interact in the metaverse. Users can invite friends to join Horizon Home, play together, watch videos, or enter applications.
2. Work
The pandemic of the last three years has brought online collaboration and working from home ahead of schedule, giving people an early glimpse of the future of work. In the metaverse, work is no longer limited by distance, and people can meet with colleagues thousands of miles away and communicate face-to-face with multinational customers. Quest for Business, which Meta will begin testing, is a new feature designed for enterprises. Users can collaborate with colleagues without using a Facebook account through a dedicated corporate login. Quest for Business also has access to specialized platforms needed for enterprise work, such as account management, third-party mobile device management, and more.
3. Creation
Today, there are hundreds of thousands of creators on the Internet, and the content they produce makes the Internet more prosperous, and because of the broad boundary of the metaverse, there will be more and more creators, and the content created will transition from the current two-dimensional to three-dimensional. Meta's Polar app allows anyone to design AR objects and effects, making AR creation easy for novices with no experience in art, design, or programming.
4. Study
From blackboards to electronic whiteboards to VR teaching, the knowledge in books has also got rid of boredom and tedium and become more and more interesting and realistic. In the metaverse, we may be able to travel back in time to learn history and practice many experimental assumptions that only exist in theory. Meta plans to invest $150 million to build immersive educational content and work with institutions to help them achieve immersive and collaborative learning.
It can be seen from the layout of Meta that it wants to build an underlying platform that integrates a variety of technologies to make people's food, clothing, housing and transportation inseparable from Meta products. And this also proves that the metaverse, as the next generation of the Internet, its emergence will bring disruptive development to the entire industry, and there are huge opportunities hidden in any field.
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