Assalum-o-alaikum, hope you all are doing good! Recently Facebook rebranded itself as Meta and a new concept of metaverse was brought into the limelight presenting the new era of socializing by utilizing the caliber of the virtual environment.

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History

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In the mid of the year 2021, Mark Zuckerberg introduced his employees to a ambitious new initiative. The upcoming venure of the multi-billion dollar company is beyond building a set of connected social media apps. He exlaimed that Facebook would power up to build a maximalist, interlinked group of experiences straight out of sci-fi — a world known as the metaverse.

Different divisions of the company focused on products for communities, creators, commerce, and augmented reality would be used to fulfill this vision. Furthermore he addressed the employees;

“What I think is most interesting is how these themes will come together into a bigger idea. Our overarching goal across all of these initiatives is to help bring the metaverse to life.”

In the end of October 2021, Mark the CEO of Facebook made it public that Facebook was changing its name to Meta. He further expressed his thoughts as;

"In our DNA we are a company that builds technology to connect people, and the metaverse is the next frontier, just like social networking was when we got started.”

What is metaverse?

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The term “metaverse” is a very vague term and can be used in the place of cyberspace, as it's not about one specific niche of technology, but about the alteration in our interaction with technology. The technologies that will power the rise of metaverse includes virtual reality—characterized by the existence of virtual environments and AR technology that will blur the horizons of the digital and physical worlds. A misconception is that only AR and VR packed tecghnology can access those spaces, in fact like aspects of any game like Fortnite, the metaverse can also be accessed via PCs, consoles, and even phones.

Metaverse will also relate to digital economy, where users can create and trade assets. In idealistic vision of the metaverse, it's so interactive that it permits you to take virtual assets like clothes or cars from one platform to other. Currently most platforms have virtual imprints, avatars, and inventories that are linked with to just one platform, but a metaverse might allow you to create an identity that you can take to other platforms like you copy your display picture from one app and post it to the other.

Why metaverse involves holographic technology?

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The technological dawn of the internet was powered by a set of technological innovations such as computers talking to each other or the ability to hyperlink webpages. These technical features were the bases that were then utilized to realize the abstract structures now collectively known as the internet (websites, apps, social networks). The interface innovations that were not strictly a component of the internet but were still essential to make it work and run the ecosystem, such as LCDs, keyboards, and touchscreens.

in the case of the metaverse, there are some very futuristic building blocks that will power the transition into that era. Like the efficiency of the server to cater to thousands of people in a single instance (ideally millions in the future), or motion-track sensing smart hardware that can decode the activity of the user to replicate it in a virtual environment.

Augmented reality in the form of holograms can be used to depict the virtual world. The clarity and quality of the output it will provide will truly deceive your visual sensory and you'll be thinking of any imagery replicated via these holograms as real and existing in the physical form.

How it will alter society?

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Currrently when you want to talk to your frinds, you take out your phone, open whatsapp and video call your friend sitting in the other corner of the world. Now imagine what if you want to talk, you put on your VR headset and call your frined and now he is standing right in front of you. How strange it would seem! But it will be the reality very soon. I personally experienced using a VR it feels very real. The sceince behind is that humans have 5 senses to decipher any thing and experience in the world. They are taste, vision, smell, listening and skin. We moslty perceive the world using two fundamental ones being vision and hearing capability. VR technology will delude your vision in such a way that you will feel right into it, moreover suitable hearing volume will make it indistinguishable from the reality.

This major leap of technology will alter the fabric of society. For example, the online education currently held in the form of zoom meetings. But after some years we might have virtual classrooms, you wear you VR headset and land right into the class, all other participants will also be virtually present. Maybe there will be no more movie theaters or stadiums, all the frineds can virtually gather to have a meetup.

But this level of indulgence will bring with itself a new pandora box of mental disorders, anxieties and other dilemmas that humankind will suffer from. Less social interaction will make the fabric of society too fragile and people so disconnected in the most interconnected metaverse.

Conclusion

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