Metaverse

• [New] The price of Bitcoin could pass $300,000 within the the next few years.
• SK Telecom said it anticipates a boost in the number of mixed reality (MR) service users and its further growth by offering Metaverse experiences to university students.
• A fully realized metaverse needs a global population, not only for a richer community and deeper economy, but also to ensure that everyone around the globe can benefit from what could be the equivalent of the information age.
• With a firm foothold in education and Microsoft's backing, it will likely make the jump to a metaverse platform, and provide one of the true family-friendly on-ramps that will be necessary.
• As the Metaverse becomes more and more firmly established, human creativity will be unleashed globally at a level never seen before.
• The Sandbox, a world based on the Etherium cryptocurrency, has an approach to perpetual, player-owned tokens that could point the way forward.
• Proponents of the Metaverse predict that it will be a multi-trillion-dollar digital economy that replaces the internet with shared virtual worlds.
• Magic Leap's mixed reality dreams are expected to bring science fiction to life.
• Lightfields are able to solve a lot of the open problems with the lack of positional tracking in 360 video and so will inevitably become a key component to future of storytelling in VR.
• The enterprise world will start to see VR telepresence applications.
• Oculus and Facebook could in the future build a massively multiplayer online experience (MMO) for one billion simultaneous users in VR.
• Some people will be motivated-and will eventually have the legal right-to terminate their organic bodies at any time to permanently join the Metaverse.
• Specific, purposeful VR apps will give people a taste of what interacting in a metaverse would feel like.

Last updated: 11 April 2021