The Rise of Metaverse: What's to Come in 2022 and 2023.

The Rise of the Metaverse: What's to Come in 2022 and 2023.

The word metaverse is a portmanteau of "metaphysical" and "universe." It's a term that describes an interconnected set of virtual reality environments. Formerly the domain of science fiction and the imagination, VR and AR (Augmented Reality) technology has matured to the point where we can now imagine walking around in a vast, seamless world. The first metaverses will be immersive enough to make us feel like we're living our lives as if they were games. And as any gamer knows, this kind of experience requires time and energy to master. But those who do master it will reap incredible rewards--from feasting on unlimited information, to exploring new worlds, to having rich social experiences...to even simply spending time with friends and family..

The Rise of Virtual Reality

The world is changing, and it's changing fast. The day will come when the idea of "going outside" becomes an antiquated concept. To be outside will mean to log out of your metaverse and into the real world--or at least a remote replica thereof. And for those who are able to stay in the metaverse--that vast, seamless, interconnected set of virtual realities--life will become immeasurably better than it is today.

The Metaverse, the World of Digital Games

In the future, the Metaverse will be a vast, seamless world indistinguishable from reality. It will be a new form of digital environment--a network of interconnected virtual worlds with its own social and economic platforms. In this primordial soup of human imagination and creativity, you can live out your fantasies or explore human experience more intimately than ever before.

The first immersion-based metaverses will be immersive enough to make us feel like we're living our lives as if they were games. And as any gamer knows, this kind of experience requires time and energy to master. But those who do master it will reap incredible rewards--from feasting on unlimited information, to exploring new worlds, to having rich social experiences...to even simply spending time with friends and family.

Why Everyone Should Care

Despite all the buzz surrounding VR and AR, many people don't realize how it will change our world. The most immediate impact of VR and AR will be on our social lives. As more people adopt these technologies, they will spend less time with friends and family in the real world. This means that people who don't adopt this technology will feel excluded or left out in an ever-increasing number of cases. But in future years, VR and AR will transform everything from education to entertainment to manufacturing--potentially even politics.

VR will teach students in ways that textbooks never could. It can provide them with a firsthand experience, like placing them inside the body of a patient with an illness or giving them access to historical sites before they're destroyed by erosion.

AR's ability to overlay digital content onto our physical worlds is already changing how we work, shop, learn, travel--even date! And that's just the beginning; in 2023 when VR becomes mainstream, AR won't be far behind as it begins to take its rightful place as a companion for those who want to live more fully in the virtual world where anything is possible.

Where It's Going to Go From Here

We're just at the beginning of the metaverse era, but it's clear that they're going to become an integral part of our lives. The same way we use Facebook today to stay in touch with people all over the world, we'll be using a metaverse to communicate with friends and family--no matter where they are.

Metaverse will also give us a new medium for consuming information. We can imagine a future where every book, movie, TV show, and song is available inside it. And not only will current forms of art be available in this new medium--we'll get to experience entirely new forms of art as well.

The architect John Lyle thinks that by 2023, "people will be living their entire lives in a virtual environment." That means going to school, work, shopping, and hanging out with friends all without ever leaving home.

Conclusion

The Metaverse is a world of digital games, of new communication and social media platforms. As real as it gets, it is also a world in which we will soon see ourselves living in, with the beginnings of it right in front of us. As we move further into the decade, we will see the world of the metaverse become more and more integrated into our daily lives and in 2022 and 2023 we will be looking back and seeing that it all started in 2020.