In 2020-2022, the world has been staying at home for a long time because of "masks", in addition to giving birth to a new form of working from home, it has also bred new means for businesses to make profits: how to make good use of human online life and fully develop the "home economy", the best way is to use games as a medium to open up consumption power. But the time cost and technical cost of developing games are higher, the concept of "meta-universe" was born, as long as it can move virtual life into the online world for storage, it can be called "meta-universe", but unfortunately two years have passed, Microsoft disbanded its meta-universe team, Zuckerberg's Meta company market value has lost more than 700 billion US dollars, and now this concept is not good!
What is the metaverse:
The concept of the metaverse originated from science fiction, or pointed to the "ultimate form" of the Internet, since its birth in 2021, developers (businesses) have given it the definition as: to open up the level of real space-network virtual world, so that even if they are in the "Internet", they can make money, work, develop the world, and obtain knowledge.
How did you experience the metaverse?
In fact, at the beginning, the development path of the "meta-universe" was very wonderful, and the developers themselves did not understand how it would expand to B, to C-end customer resources, and finally the meta-universe project development team took advantage of the "sense of achievement" of human beings and decided to let every user participate in the construction of the "meta-universe" in the form of a virtual world similar to "Minecraft".
Once you enter the field of "meta-universe" (can be a web page, can be software), you have to build, you have to spend money, users enter the meta-universe games and social scenes to buy game props, game identities, gifts between friends, etc., need to be digitally traded through the unified currency in the scene, requiring the establishment of a relatively independent economic system, but should also be different from the real economic system and related. You can only get the virtual world (VR) of "augmented" reality (AR) if you have "krypton gold", and since there is a "currency exchange", it will cause market circulation. At this point, you need VR and other equipment, and all this gameplay requires krypton gold.
Why did Microsoft and Facebook abandon development?
In essence, the "meta-universe" is a series of capitalists in a beautiful country "unorganized and undisciplined" to engage in an economic activity, unlike most domestic capital and Internet institutions, not all of them love the real economy, as long as they can upgrade the company's market value, let investors make money, or can "get B round, C round and other financing, then they are willing to develop." Obviously, VR equipment smashed a lot of advertisements are not bought, except for celebrities, no one is stupid enough to spend real currency for "NFT" blockchain currency area to buy an avatar, Microsoft disbanded the metaverse team, Facebook (Meta) laid off employees and caused a total loss of $13.8 billion (2022) in its metaverse projects, thankless, can you not give up development?
Domestic enterprises develop metaverse traces:
quick worker
Internet giants have taken the lead in retreating, and domestic private enterprises that received the wind naturally moved quickly: Ma Yingwu, head of Kuaishou metaverse business, posted a media report confirming his departure from the company in a circle of friends.
Tencent
In June 2022, Tencent released an internal email announcing the establishment of an XR business line under IEG (Interactive Entertainment Business Group) to be responsible for the strategic planning and execution of XR business. The business line will be led by Shen Li, general manager of Tencent's NExT studio.
However, less than five months later, Shen Li confirmed that he would leave his job in November 2022 for personal reasons. At that time, a person familiar with Tencent Games said that Shen Li's management business was not affected for the time being, and it was advancing normally.
ByteDance
In July 2022, ByteDance launched the social app Party Island, positioned as a metaverse social product, and in October, ByteDance has cut the project team of the social app "Party Island", and the App "Party Island" has not been heard from since.
Tech darling in 2023: ChatGPT
Seeing the low economic benefits of the "meta-universe" in the short term, major capitals have successively reduced their budgets and retracted to integrate the next field of investment, of which the current largest investment scale and the construction of a relatively healthy ecology are: AI (artificial intelligence), such as AI painting, ChatGPT "artificial intelligence chatbot" developed by Open AI will become the Internet product of the fire in 2023.
I am personally also interested in ChatGPT, it is not like the Microsoft "Cortana" robot as simple search for data, or advanced navigation, but can identify the context, as far as possible to reduce the error to output the AI to think of the view, from the experience of netizens, this ChatGPT is more like a "no emotion" college student machine, has certain moral values, and Microsoft also invested nearly 90 billion to engage in ChatGPT, even if the intelligence developed 30% of the core technology, It may also be a tool to change all mankind, and it is undeniable that the more popular it is, the more clues it has, because businesses want to use it to make money, but it is not necessarily a bad thing~
Experts predict that the metaverse will disappear in two years
Matthew Ball, principal analyst at Canalys, pointed out that gaming is an important development direction for the metaverse, but many business sectors will be in trouble in the future. He expects most metaverse commercial projects to go out of business by 2025.
I think it is also, the product manager of the metaverse himself has not understood what the metaverse is? I only know that copying from real life into the virtual world, netizens are not fools.
Epilogue:
At present, my personal opinion: there are two elementary particles in the metaverse.
Fools and liars
Many fools revolve around scammers at high speed to form the metaverse
Constituent of the basis of matter:
Yuanzi is inspired by the high-energy "concept" of the outside world
The fool jumped to the high-energy state,
After a short period of time, it transitions back to a low-energy state,
At the same time, send tickets to the outside world