As everyone knows, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook company had made an announcement recently about a virtual world in future – Metaverse. It’s kind of amazing and really does open up my thoughts and minds on how the world will be in the future. People can have real life meeting, entertainment, or even commerce with the sense of presence (including the 5 senses). And I feel that we are not far away from the goal set by Mark Zuckerberg since the world is actually having these technologies to build a virtual world where all the senses get involved. Maybe some of us are still unaware of the situation, but I have to tell that actually virtual world is already there in life, I mean in gaming sector. Gaming software or company like Epic Games, they are actually having the technologies to build real life environment using some rendering engines (Unreal Engines), and I got to say that it impressed me with their improvement and research on the study of movement of light. However, not most of the people realized about this, and why is it so? The answer is rather simple and obvious, people that really get into this gaming thing are just minority. Well, apart from gaming industrial, Mark Zuckerberg is planning to use the technology in a much more different aspect – horizon workspace. He is trying to move in the whole working experience into virtual world, which means most of the people are going to involve in virtual world because working is inevitable.
But here comes a question in my mind. Is it really a good option to have our life in virtual world? With no physical interaction, unclear identity in virtual world (people can make their own avatar). Will the world be better or even worst? Once everything can be done in virtual world, including working and education, we are going to spent most of the time virtually. How about the operation of world? Food production? Waste management? Eventually its going to take over by AI or robot. In addition, the main focus in future world most probably is about efficiency. In this case, future world will be full of coldness of machine, stress, emotionless, lifelessness. Furthermore, the one who are going to control the world will be entrepreneur, founder of those software company since most of the time spent in virtual world. Are they capable to lead the nation? Well, that’s the question for the future. Instead, I may be get too far in the topic of metaverse.
The key to make full use of metaverse depends on the users. On certain level, metaverse did really helps in improving life experience. But where are the boundary line? At what extend the metaverse technology will be used? Its a question for the future to think of.
