What is metaverse? What makes Facebook invest in this technology?

Mark Zuckerberg has named Facebook Meta. Behind this is a new virtual world called Metaverse. What is metaverse? What makes Facebook invest in this technology? Let's look at it in detail.

With the development of technologies, the world has come into our palms. Internet access can contact anyone in any corner of the world. Even someone who has never seen it can be made friends through social media. Meta Verse is the next stage in this internet world. The word METAVERSE was coined by The META UNIVERSE. It means a digital or virtual world beyond the real world we are living in.

The term metaverse was first published in 1992 in the scientific story Of The Science of Neil Stephenson. Metaverse, he said in the book, is the virtual world in which people use avatars for themselves to communicate with each other. Ready Player One is another novel based on this Metaverse theory. Director Steven Spielberg also released it as a 2018 film. The existing online video games, Such as Roblox and Fortnite, are also based on metaverse. Action reality transforms the environment we are in into an imaginary environment, virtual reality that makes us feel like we are in that fantasy environment. A metaverse is a place where these two combine to make real-world humans live virtually.

Currently used only in online games, this technology is now going to make people live in the virtual world by creating their favorite-looking avatars. Analysts say the time is not far when we can buy virtual land with virtual money called crypto-currency and create our favorite environment. At present, Facebook is focusing on this technology. Mark Zuckerberg's plan is to combine Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and virtual sports platform Oculus with Metaverse and bring them under the new parent company. This is said to take up to 15 years to be possible.

Now through Facebook, we appreciate friendships with even people we've never seen before, and when this technology is possible we can play with those friends in the virtual world and go to the concert. But there is also criticism that this will cancel direct communication between humans and further isolate humans.