Metaverse 24-hour experience: Will there be such a life in 30 years?
Written by: 0x13; Image source of this article: Metaverse Expedition Team, The Sandbox Official
On June 1st, Children's Day, a WeChat group suddenly became full of people. After only a few minutes, the number of unread messages became 99+.
"Everyone, prepare your earphones, water, and dry food. We are about to set off for the Yuan Universe." Cao Yin greeted everyone in the WeChat group. In addition to the titles of managing director of the Digital Renaissance Foundation and encrypted art collector, he has another title. Identity - member of the metaverse explorer.
This WeChat group is called Metaverse Expedition Team 1. Hundreds of adults with childlike innocence chose to explore the "Metaverse" amusement park from the future on Children's Day.
2:00 p.m., CryptoVoxels. This prestigious blockchain metaverse ushered in this metaverse expedition team from China. Almost never before have so many people descended into the world of CryptoVoxels at the same time. Some people joked that this was a "stress test" for CryptoVoxels. ".
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Can the metaverse not be "encrypted"?
Recently, people's discussions on the concept of "Metaverse" have become heated again, and people are imagining about the future Second Life in this "next-generation Internet". People look forward to a certain intersection in this world, turn left to Meituan Waimai, and turn right to King of Glory; look forward to living and working in this digital world; look forward to the neighbors in the digital world from all over the world; even look forward to Lives and relationships in the digital world can be completely independent of the real world.
The metaverse can have nothing to do with the encrypted world and blockchain technology.
Tencent invested in Roblox and is the exclusive agent for Roblox product distribution in China. ByteDance invested nearly 100 million yuan in the "Chinese version of Roblox" Code Universe. American game developer Epic received $1 billion in financing and announced user development metaverse business. Tianmei also A game masterpiece will be developed to compete with the virtual world "Oasis" in "Ready Player One". Even "Moore Manor", which has recently been frequently searched on Weibo, has been joked that it is a Metaverse platform.
However, these metaverse platforms are not the best choice. Nowadays, people are paying more and more attention to the ownership of items, whether it is physical assets or virtual assets, people want to keep their own things firmly in their own hands, and the Metaverse launched by those Internet giants cannot do this. A little bit, people choosing those metaverses is tantamount to choosing unconditional trust that these giants will not go bankrupt or shut down the platform. But as a generation who grew up in front of the screen, we have experienced too many stories of asset loss caused by the closure of games and websites.
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The Metaverse of the Crypto World
Can you guess how far the metaverse has grown in the crypto world?
Following the pace of the expedition, we visited CryptoVoxels and Decentraland, only to find that the development of these metaverses is far beyond our imagination.
CryptoVoxels was called "Blockchain version of Minecraft" at the beginning of its birth. The simple pixel style makes it easier for users to build. As time goes by, CryptoVoxels has also become an encrypted native artist and an encrypted art platform. The most frequently chosen platform for art exhibitions.
The most common thing people do when they come to the world of CryptoVoxels is to see the exhibition, and the metaverse expedition is no exception. As an expedition team jointly initiated by NFT Tuesday and the Shanghai Artel community, it is natural to visit the galleries of artists in the community when they come to this metaverse. So the expedition team went to Liu Jiaying's Chijin Gallery, the private galleries of artists such as Baiwei and IOYOI, and the Conflux Ecological Roast Gallery, etc., to see these digital art works up close. Encrypted artist Reva even formed a metaverse construction team "Yuanjian Siju" to help others while building his own virtual gallery.
In addition to the gallery, the builders of CryptoVoxels have also developed more interesting functions in this metaverse.
For example, map the building or your own body, and turn the real environment you live in or your imagination of the world into reality, but be careful not to put the puppet's head upside down.
Like spending a day watching a movie in the Metaverse.
For example, go to play the pixel haunted house in the metaverse, but you need to be patient. If the computer configuration is not good enough, you need to stand at the door and wait for the ghosts to load out before entering the house to explore.
After traveling around in Cryptovoxels, the metaverse expedition team printed their footprints in another metaverse in the encryption world, which is Decentraland.
Decentraland and CryptoVoxels have a completely different style of painting. Since Decentraland supports importing 3D modeling in addition to voxel construction, the buildings and various elements here are more imaginative.
For example, Binance’s official building in Decentraland has a streamlined appearance that makes it look more modern.
Among the various buildings, the most representative building is the Dragon City built by the Chinese team. The Chinese-style traditional statue shoots red and blue light, and the combination of classical and modern technological elements has a Chinese-style cyberpunk flavor.
And the giant statue standing next to the tower of the "Soul Network Agency" overlooks the earth, as if it came from Cthulhu in the East.
In Decentraland, everyone's digital avatar is more real, and the entire metaverse is closer to the world we see in our daily lives.
Similarly, there are many excellent creators in the Decentraland metaverse, who have created various entertainment facilities for this world, such as secret rooms and virtual casinos.
In addition, NFTs in many other blockchain games, such as CryptoKitties and Axie, can be integrated into the world of Decentraland. The world we dreamed of living with elves when we were playing "Pokemon" when we were young is about to become Reality.
In addition, there are various "easter eggs" hidden around the world in Decentraland. By participating in various activities, you can also receive POAP, which is a "proof of attendance" NFT, which is proof that you are active in the Metaverse , and proof that your digital avatar ever existed. Although at present, they do not have much investment value, but in the future, maybe it will become "value" itself.
Another highly anticipated metaverse in the encryption world, The Sandbox, is also worth looking forward to.
If CryptoVoxels is like "My World" and also uses voxels to build buildings, then The Sandbox can be said to have moved "My World" to the encrypted world.
Unlike CryptoVoxels and Decentraland, which can be explored at will on the web, exploring The Sandbox requires downloading a separate application, which also makes The Sandbox run more smoothly. Currently, The Sandbox client only has a Windows version, and the macOS version is not yet online. You can use a Windows computer to experience it yourself, and if your computer is a macOS system, you can also watch the official game recording video to feast your eyes.
Players' digital avatars in The Sandbox can be personally customized, and the options are endless.
The actions of the characters in the game are very coordinated and smooth, and the overall world environment is also very delicate.
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Metaverse is more than NFT, just like NFT is more than artwork
When it comes to NFT, most people think of encrypted artwork and digital collectibles. Indeed, in the current NFT market, the vast majority of commodities fall into the above two categories, and it is precisely these two categories of NFTs that are repeatedly sold at sky-high prices.
When it comes to the metaverse, most people think of NFT, so many people think that the biggest use of the metaverse in the encrypted world is to hold online art exhibitions.
Indeed, currently the biggest use cases for NFTs are encrypted art and digital collectibles, but NFTs are not limited to artworks, and financial NFTs are also developing silently. From the NFT insurance policy of Uniswap V3 NFT, it can be predicted that financial NFTs will definitely occupy a large market in the future. NFT market share, and other more practical NFT categories will also be born and widely adopted.
In the metaverse of the encrypted world, NFT has an extremely important position. All our assets in the metaverse except virtual currency will exist in the form of NFT. NFT allows us to firmly control the ownership of virtual assets in our own hands. Even if a metaverse is eventually closed, these assets will still exist in the In our digital wallets, we can relocate them to another brand new metaverse. NFT makes the metaverse even more powerful.
But also, just like NFT is more than artwork, the Metaverse is more than NFT.
Just think about it, in real life, do we really need to use a specific "item" around us for everything? The answer is of course no.
We can imagine what the metaverse can do in the future.
We can use virtual currency in the virtual restaurant in the metaverse to order a takeaway for ourselves in real life; we can watch football games and concerts with our neighbors in the digital world in the stadium in the metaverse; You can directly invest in various stocks, funds, and cryptocurrencies in the trading hall of the Metaverse; you can vote for the Metaverse world governance proposal in the Great Hall of the Metaverse...
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For the future, for the oasis thirty years later
There is a classic line in the movie "Ready Player One": "People come to the oasis because they can do all kinds of things, but they sink here for a different life."
Oasis is the metaverse in the film world of "Ready Player One". In that era, people socialized, entertained, and worked in this metaverse. Also can be a superhero in this virtual world.
In the future, the "Metaverse" will no longer be a tool for experiencing novelty in people's eyes, and it will not only be a place for "playing", but will become a real world. In this world, all we have What you have is a life that is completely different from the physical world.
Maybe it will take us 30 years or more before the "oasis" in the movie can come into reality, but we are all waiting and looking forward to the day when the "oasis" arrives.
