What is it like to live in the Metaverse for a week? Someone wore a VR device and spent a week in a massively multiplayer online virtual reality game called VRChat, filmed the experience and uploaded it to a video website, with tens of millions of views.
During a week in the VRChat world, audiences follow Youtubers, socialize, play games, and even take yoga classes and watch concerts in the virtual world.
From ordinary people's "survival experience" to Facebook and other big companies holding meetings in the "Metaverse", people from Web 2.0 have an extremely rich experience of the "Metaverse". However, can a virtual reality game like VRChat be called a "Metaverse"? It's the same old cliché: if the server goes down, you have nothing.
This is the most intuitive difference between the so-called Web2.0 and Web3.0.
The "metaverse" that people of Web 3.0 experience most is CryptoVoxels, and the community often organizes people to explore in the world of CryptoVoxels. Although the graphics and immersion of CryptoVoxels are much weaker than that of VRChat, in the world of CryptoVoxels, users' Assets will truly belong to themselves, such as a table, a sculpture, and even if the server is shut down, these assets can also be placed on other metaverse platforms. If you want to ask why people come to CryptoVoxels from VRChat, which has a great immersive experience, it must be this reason.
With the blessing of NFT, users can truly take assets into their own hands, but as a blockchain application, users need to learn blockchain knowledge and remember the mnemonic words of their wallets. The extremely high threshold will be countless Web 2.0 users are locked out.
In mid-October, CryptoVoxels officially stated that it is considering supporting Twitter and Facebook as login methods. And just recently, CryptoVoxels supports Facebook login. Facebook users can obtain a brand new Ethereum address through the Torus wallet, and the private key can be found in the Torus wallet. In this way, 2.7 billion Facebook users around the world can enter the world of Web 3.0 without the blockchain, and CryptoVoxels opens the door to the residents of Web 2.0.
For "first-rate ideas, third-rate implementation" and "first-rate implementation, third-rate ideas", Jack Ma and Masayoshi Son chose the latter, but CryptoVoxels firmly chose the former. In fact, the choice of CryptoVoxels is limited by virtual reality technology and time constraints. The immersive experience requires long-term application development on the one hand, and hardware and software development such as VR glasses and real-time rendering on the other.
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Is the metaverse land itself valuable?
In the eyes of most people, the most important thing in metaverses such as CryptoVoxels, Decentraland, and The Sandbox is virtual land, and there has been an upsurge of real estate hype in each metaverse. Today, the land in Decentraland has already been sold, users need to pay a high price to buy a piece of land in the virtual world from other users, and The Sandbox sells out every land sale within a few seconds, and the secondary market price has already doubled. several times.
Does virtual land in the Metaverse need to be as scarce as it is in the real world? CryptoVoxels does not think it is necessary, therefore, the land of CryptoVoxels is infinitely increased. Since its birth in June 2018, CryptoVoxels has never raised funds, and only through the sale of land, the team has expanded from Ben Nolan to more than ten people, and the team is still expanding.
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The value of the metaverse land comes from "creativity"
If the land in the metaverse itself is worthless, what is it really worth?
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Future plans for CryptoVoxels
For the CryptoVoxels team, "creativity" refers to planning for the future of the project. CryptoVoxels is not content with the status quo, but continues to think about the future.
As a Web 3.0 application, CryptoVoxels is also considering developing in a more decentralized direction in the future. Ben Nolan once shared his thoughts on his personal social media. In the future, maybe CryptoVoxels will not officially sell any land, but will only create a piece of land for users when they submit their needs.
Replacing today's "hunger marketing" with this supply-on-demand method will weaken the hype of virtual land on the one hand, and prevent waste of resources on the other hand, because many "big landlords" do not make good use of their resources. Land, a lot of vacancy also makes parts of the world of CryptoVoxels feel extraordinarily inhospitable.
CryptoVoxels developer Benjy also proposed another possibility. In the future, a role similar to a "mayor" may be introduced in the CryptoVoxels metaverse. The "mayor" of each region is decided by the landowners to vote to promote this virtual world. Rapid, stable, and orderly development will also make the CryptoVoxels Metaverse more colorful.
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unleashed creativity
And these "first-rate ideas" come not only from the CryptoVoxels team, but also from the creative residents of the CryptoVoxels metaverse.
The most intuitive embodiment of creativity is architecture. In the metaverse of CryptoVoxels, people no longer need to abide by the laws of the real world, do not need to consider the cost of materials, do not need to consider the laws of physics, and creativity can be fully released.
In addition to conventional buildings, "illegal buildings" shine in the CryptoVoxels metaverse. Each piece of land in CryptoVoxels has restrictions on height and floor area, but these restrictions can only limit people's construction in CryptoVoxels, but cannot control the size of the model uploaded by users. Users can complete the modeling first and then upload it Importing CryptoVoxels breaks through the limitations, and users can express their creativity more freely.
The land by the sea is the first choice for players who are keen to build "illegal buildings", and this has also raised the current price of land by the sea.
The CryptoVoxels official does not seem to intend to crack down on "illegal construction". Ensuring the full display of everyone's creativity is a necessary condition for the continuous appreciation of the entire Metaverse.
CryptoVoxels Metaverse Business Model
In addition to architecture, what best reflects the "creativity" of the residents of the metaverse is the various business models that have emerged over time. To put it simply, people can do more and more things in the metaverse. With architecture, how to "use" architecture is also a science.
First of all, people need to build on the land after owning a piece of land, but not everyone has the ability in this area, so the "Metaverse Construction Team" was born.
At present, the most famous "construction team" is Voxel Architects. The super-large swimming pool in Origin City and Musk SpaceX's base in CryptoVoxels are all from their hands. The high-quality construction also allowed these lands to obtain a super high number of visits.
After the land is built, users can hold various activities in the building.
The most common one is the encrypted art exhibition. Users can directly hang their own creations and collectors NFT in the building, and the audience can jump to the purchase page by clicking. When holding a large art exhibition, you can easily travel to other exhibition halls by simply clicking the portal.
The launch ceremony of some projects is also chosen to be held in the CryptoVoxels Metaverse. Previously, the more common way was to hold the launching ceremony on the voice channel of Discord. The project party and guests shared their feelings through voice and video. In the Metaverse, everyone can carnival in the carefully built venues.
Additionally, someone even hosted a wedding for two NFT avatars in CryptoVoxels this past September.
It can be seen that the current activities in the Metaverse are no longer just art exhibitions, and there will be more colorful activities in the CryptoVoxels Metaverse in the future to make people's ideas come true.
In CryptoVoxels, landowners use their power to forge wearables, clothes for digital avatars in the CryptoVoxels metaverse. Also, not every landlord has this skill, and not every user is a landlord, which gave birth to the "Metaverse Commercial Street". When visiting, click on the voxel model you like to jump to OpenSea for trading.
If you visit CryptoVoxels often, you must have seen similar buildings: small footprint, streamlined decoration, and large billboards.
The Metaverse needs advertisements. Since the virtual land is much larger than the real world, it is extremely important to increase popularity through advertising. In the CryptoVoxels Metaverse, users can travel to other regions with a single portal device. Ads work better.
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Metaverse Billboards Billboards all over the Metaverse
And when the CryptoVoxels Metaverse took shape, the need for data analysis became urgent. Limited by the team size and workload, CryptoVoxels officially does not provide data analysis services, so some Metaverse residents spontaneously started data analysis and shared it with other users.
Take MetaCat, founded by CK, a data analyst in the CryptoVoxels community, as an example. On its website, you can clearly query important information and materials such as the number of visits to each plot, the average land price of each island, and a beginner's guide.
The creativity of the team and residents promotes the rapid development of CryptoVoxels. With the development, people's sense of immersion and experience in this metaverse will be greatly improved, and CryptoVoxels will become more and more like what we expect from the metaverse.
Today, Facebook, Tencent, and Ali have expressed that they will enter the metaverse field, and the metaverse has also begun to be frequently mentioned on various occasions. In the future, billions of users will even come to each metaverse. And CryptoVoxels, as the leader of the Metaverse in the Web 3.0 world, has already extended an olive branch to countless users in the Web 2.0 world.
The metaverse removes barriers and obstacles in various aspects such as race and geography for people from all over the world, so that everyone has the opportunity to become friends. In the metaverse, everyone's creativity will be fully released. There is no dispute that the Metaverse must be the future.
Now, the visual effects of CryptoVoxels may not be as good as the "metaverse" that various major manufacturers will launch, but this is only a matter of time, not to mention that the "metaverse" that industry giants will launch must rely on a centralized server. Virtual reality games are not a real "metaverse".
And also now, CryptoVoxels has given the residents of the Web 2.0 world an excellent opportunity to experience the blockchain world without feeling, and easily understand what decentralization is and the importance of metaverse decentralization. Decentralization The transformed metaverse is the real metaverse and the future of this world.
