Now let's close our eyes and open them in the metaverse
What you're seeing is related to a word that has been spoken a lot, especially in recent months. METAVERSE
While those who are interested in cryptocurrencies say that they are starting to build this Universe
People in the gaming world say they've already started living there
The video I just showed.
The 64km prologue was a scene from the game world.
why 64 Because the sixth force of 2 is
This place will later turn into a virtual universe of earth-sized Artemis, and even she will become a tiny part of the Metaverse
Okay, but what is this Metaverse ?
More importantly, can it replace the Internet ?
Do you remember that we heard about NFT, which was sold for $ 69 million at an auction
We are used to hearing about works of art that are sold at such high prices often, but remember that this picture is completely digital, so the thing that was paid for $ 69 million is a jpg file
A person who buys a painting can proudly display it on the wall of his house or mansion, but what can a person who buys a jpg file do besides carry it inside a USB stick
The two friends who bought it had a very interesting plan about it, they will display it in a virtual monument called the bazaar
They say that they are working with world-famous architects to build this monument
The work, which was purchased for only $ 69 million, will not be exhibited there, concerts, various meetings attended by opinion leaders will be held there
Look, I would like to remind you that the place designed by world-famous architects is a virtual environment
In the metaverse, bazaar, city, country, planet, universe, metaverse is a concept that covers and combines all of these
In fact, this word was first said in 1992
In his novel Snow crash, Neal Stephenson says on the full 22 pages
Behind him are meaningless words that explain how to get to him
a phone number and
an address in the metaverse
He said a stupid name, shoved the card into a hundred pockets of his jumpsuit.
he said you'll never forget it. Hero
this concept of the Metaverse, which was introduced in this novel after it was written in 1992, has been forgotten for many years
a common online community of worlds where physical reality is augmented and virtual reality is combined is the metaverse
An environment where you can work, where you can travel, shop, hang out with friends and spend time
Such virtual environments were not invented, second life
there are, for example, warcraft, fortnight, roblox, minecraft, you can say that there is no need for this
Did they not build a virtual world for these games and build a special virtual economy for themselves
this huge multiplayer online game world, which is expected to reach a size of 23 billion dollars by the end of 2021
Moreover, for example, not only games are being played in the Fortnite universe anymore
a rap concert held there last year was watched by 12 million people at the same time
it doesn't suit my concert taste, but anyway
what is the difference between the metaverse and these
as I can tell
there was spider-man, and it started out as a comic book, didn't it
Just like iron man and thor, cartoons such as captain america were made, animated, and watched on television
Games were made and played on consoles, movies were made, cinemas were also shown
That wasn't enough, they were involved in each other's story
Over time, in short, a Marvel universe of such size and breadth that encyclopedias could be written appeared
we are not surprised to see loki and captain america on the same stage, we consider it normal because we believe that they live in a different universe parallel to us
But can we see superman or batman on the same square no they live somewhere else that DC calls the expanded universe
Here the metaverse imagines a common place where everything is shared, including all of this and even the physical world we live in
But what kind of place will be the place that the metaverse dreams of
The metaverse Stephenson imagined
There was a 65536 kilometer long street that traveled around a planet
why this length because 2 to the 16th power
remember that we are in a digital environment, everything consists of zeros and ones, that is, a binary system
This is a single and long street on a digital planet here the metaverse had been imagined as an urban environment built around this road
This was the beginning, and then, for example,,
In the movie Ready Player One, based on the novel by Ernest Cline
It has appeared again as OASIS
Metaverse
The movie that best visualized the metaverse ever, it was Ready Player One
in order to go beyond these metaverse universes, which began to be imagined in novels and then movies from the 90s onwards, users used a special pair of glasses virtual reality glasses
The same is being considered for the metaverse being built today.
Even Facebook believes in the concept of the metaverse so much that
in 2014, he bought Oculus for $2 billion
5/1 of facebook employees are currently working on the metaverse
they are considering investing $5 billion for the metaverse every year
According to Mark Zuckerberg, the biggest innovation after mobile internet will be the metaverse.
such a great innovation cannot be built with a single device or the efforts of one company
so all digital industry companies users content producers developers and designers will work together to build it
If you started doing something about cryptocurrencies blockchain
You are already starting to be part of a metaverse experience. means
If you've started attending concerts with your digital avatar like in fortnite, it means you're starting to be a part of the metaverse experience.
So the metaverse is much more than the fictional Universes in the comics in the games
It's not just gamers, game companies, comics or social media companies that are interested in this issue.
Last May, the South Korean government announced the metaverse alliance.
This is an initiative of local companies to promote the development of a national virtual and augmented reality platform and solve the problems of virtual environments.
While things were happening in the Far East, Epic Games, which developed Fortnite in the West, was trying to fight against Apple by filing an antitrust lawsuit.
According to the documents revealed in this lawsuit, which ended recently, only fortnite made $ 9 billion in 2019 in 2018 alone
A substantial portion of this income comes from these metaverse behaviors
At least we can give examples such as buying clothes for your character
Epic Games, which has already noticed these and similar trends, has now stopped seeing fortnite as just a game and has started using the concept of the metaverse in them
And announced the investment of $ 1 billion for the identified and long-term Vision
That's what Epic Games' defense in court was also about
speaking on the case, matthew wiesinger was saying that this is not just a game, we are building a metaverse of a social environment beyond the game
Therefore, this concept will not consist of just an App Store or the applications listed there
you can not build such a grandiose vision in a garden, the perimeter of which is covered with walls
The metaverse should be such a place that we can buy the clothes of your digital avatar from one place, the tools we use, and the accessories from other places.
should you be able to design them yourself, which is not enough, you should be able to move them from one environment to another from one universe to another
Because now they belong to you
we may think that there is a tunnel opening here from roblox to fortnite, but we said that the metaverse is not just about games
then let's call it a mix of ready-player-one and Marvel universes
This is not enough because we will not only be watching the metaverse, we will be in it, maybe we will become a part of it.
in order to explain this better, let me give you another example
let me give you an example from the star wars universe
If you remember that the big bang of this universe was born as a movie that started in movie theaters.
this movie 9 serial o the universe is still expanding with tv serials and other things
Now we watch the adventures of not only jedays but also characters like Mandalorian.
We use action figures or toys to host the characters of this universe into our own universe.
what if we did the opposite. If we went there instead of bringing them here
for example, if we sent our own avatar to the location where the series was filmed instead of watching the mandalorian series
considering that all of the sets you watched in the mandalorian series were also designed in the unreal engine developed by epic games, this is not a very distant possibility, in fact
Because anyone who listens to this design application can download and start using it right now
He can build not only his three-dimensional digital avatar, but also the environments in which he can live
So, like the Little Prince, we can build our own little planet and then travel to other other universes where other heroes live and their adventures continue
such a metaverse is just like we are currently visiting websites on the Internet
so could such an environment really be possible
If the Internet can be, why not this
Let's keep our optimism, but of course there are skeptics.
There are those who rightly say that the word metaverse is just a passing fashion.
Two years ago, when this word was not so fashionable yet, I preferred the name Mirror Worlds.
i believe that if we want to build such an environment, we need to develop a language with some protocols, an infrastructure, a system
For example, can't this system be built with technologies based on this infrastructure blockchain
Can decentralization come to the fore when designing while discussing the future of the ready-made Internet
If we are so tired of our own universe and we are trying to create other universes that are much more colorful and fun than this,
can't we at least be freer there