Introduction
It all started with a novel written by Neil Stephenson called Snow Crash. For Stephenson, the term virtual reality in science fiction was very vain. So he built the acronym Metaverse, “Meta” for beyond and “Verse” for universe. A way to describe the technological development on the internet and the multisensory experience of the future scientist. That was in 1992.
The rise of Meta and the popularization of the Metaverse
In 2021, the facebook and whatsapp platforms changed their name to now simply be called Meta, with a logo that some identify as infinite; but it is really about the lemniscate, a geometry term that results in a flat unicursal curve in its development. Of course, with that image associated with infinity, “Meta” was the perfect name for Zuckerberg to consider that his project was the new reality with which he was betting on his new stage.
In poetic and mystical terms, infinity is sacred. It is the awakening. That which has no end. The union of the masculine and feminine in communion with the universe, and thus, other connotations that even allow us to speculate on the subject.
The truth is that the metaverse, which emerged between the lines of fantasy literature, is now a reality. Meta is working on the construction of avatars that will come out in the last quarter of 2022 with the necessary devices to immerse the viewer and user in what will be another dimension, with environments where humans interact socially and economically in graphic representations known as avatars, through software in a cyberspace that acts as a metaphor for the real world, but without the physical or economic limitations imposed there. Let’s remember the movie Avatar by James Cameron where the main character (Sam Worthington) was a cripple but when he entered the virtual world, he could walk, run, jump, etc.
Metaverse advances and applications today
But Meta is not the only company working on this. In Europe, Vodafone Group Plc, initially known as the Racal Telecom company, is a multinational mobile, landline, broadband and digital television operator headquartered in the United Kingdom. It is present in many countries, being the second largest telecommunications operator in the world in terms of number of customers and profits (in both cases behind China Mobile). Until December 2017 with 439 million customers.
The name Vodafone comes from VOice-DAta-FONE (voice and data telephone), a name chosen by the founder, who already sensed since those years that data would be one of the fundamental elements of future telecommunications
Vodafone presented a few days ago the first open Metaverse created in Spain, with a platform with which it intends to popularize the new digital hybrid scenarios, in which physical, augmented and virtual reality coexist. For example, the operator offers users to enjoy a concert as if they were in the front row and surrounded by friends, learn as a family thanks to augmented reality, travel the world from the sofa at home, swim with sharks, take pictures with celebrities, walk on Mars or float between the planets.
To achieve these virtual experiences, all of them grouped together on the Vodafone SG Reality platform, virtual reality glasses or augmented reality viewers or simply a smartphone are required, since the experience adapts to the type of device. Furthermore, all these tools will be open to all customers, not just those of Vodafone.
According to sources from the teleco Through a statement, “Vodafone’s alliance with Ericsson and Samsung will allow the creation of a SG ecosystem that ensures the entire project development chain, from design to execution, with the best connectivity and SG devices, to respond to the challenges posed by society through technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, mobile edge computing or Big Data “.
Until now, applied uses of the Metaverses have been identified in the field of entertainment, tele-education, tele-health and especially in the field of the digital economy, where new forms of value such as non-fungible tokens (NFT) are beginning to emerge. for its acronym in English).
Conclusions
Already in some US universities, they are being applied in virtual classes and in the field of medicine, I doubt that we are far from the industrial aspect of that new virtual reality that we will live at any moment. Be that as it may, the Metaverse allows us to imagine that it is very likely that the setting for routine inspections, for example, of a refining park, will be developed and allow the implementation of reliability programs in terms of preventive and corrective measures.
Talking precisely about all this that seems like a fantasy taken from the best movie, a friend told me “that scares me, not so much because of what we may find with the advances and technology of the future, but because I fear being left behind”.
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