Is the Metaverse Coming?

2021 is known as the "Year of the Metaverse - META YEAR.”

In 2021, Zuckerberg renamed Facebook "Meta," the prefix for the Metaverse. At the beginning of 2022, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Activision Blizzard for US$68.7 billion, which is regarded as Microsoft's advance layout of the metaverse platform development. Google has been working on metaverse-related technologies for years; Apple is also developing its own related devices. This information seems to indicate the coming of the Metaverse.

Recently, Disney CEO Bob Chapek said the company had appointed an executive to lead metaverse strategy. Walt Disney executive Mike White has become senior vice president of "next-generation stories and consumer experience," according to the report. He will work with Disney's creative team to help determine how consumers will experience Disney's future metaverse. In November last year, Disney announced that it would enter the metaverse, making the metaverse a strategic priority for the company.

The Metaverse is another giant wave of innovation after the mobile Internet. However, just as it was difficult to accurately predict the development of the Internet 20 years ago, people cannot accurately predict the shape of the "Metaverse" in the future.

At present, most of the manifestations of the metaverse are games, and it gradually integrates functions such as the Internet, digital entertainment, and social networks. In the long run, it can even integrate social economic and commercial activities. Some analysts believe that Metaverse is not a replacement for real life, but a mapping and supplement of the real world, and has the opportunity to become an efficient tool for improving productivity. The metaverse is a future trend that cannot be underestimated.

Although it was proposed 30 years ago, with the development of technology and updated equipment, the construction and evolution of the "metaverse" may far exceed people's expectations. A report pointed out that the metaverse is the digital existence of human beings in the future, which will reshape the digital economic system, and the metaverse will become the way of life of human beings after 2040. The Metaverse is a very exciting space with a lot of opportunity in it.