A few months ago Facebook, the matrix that controls not only the social network, but also to Instagram or WhatsApp, changed its name to the finish line, to end all that bad reputation that had worked its previous name. Este evento sirvió también para que Mark Zuckerberg nos presentara oficialmente el Metaverso, algo de lo que cada vez se habla más, y no solo por parte de su empresa, sino por parte de otros muchos gigantes tecnológicos, que parecen haberle comprado la idea a Meta, o al menos se han sumado a ella.In addition to asking what this metach is, we want to understand if it is really going to be something so influential in our lives.
What is metaverso?
Precisely yesterday Meta officially presented the artificial intelligence supercomputer that will be in charge of providing artificial intelligence to this metach.The technological giant says that in the middle of this year he will be ready and will become the most powerful computer in the world. Este se conoce como el AI Research SuperCluster, y será capaz de entrenar a modelos virtuales, creados a partir de más de mil millones de parámetros de datos, que pueden llegar a ocupar un exabyte.This is just an example of the processing power that will need to move a metaverso in which they expect us to enter all.
Pero yendo a lo que nos preguntamos, el Metaverso va a ser básicamente un mundo virtual alternativo al que vivimos en la realidad, pero con una gran parte de réplica.Something like a sophisticated and ultra realistic version of that Second Life that many hugged in the Sony ecosystem with the change of the century.A place where we ourselves, or quite the opposite, where to take refuge by doing a series of things that we could not do in our real life for different reasons.It is a world that we can access through virtual reality technology, in fact, we will have to wear glasses, or a similar device, to be able to move from this metachoso.
Eso sí, la insistencia con la que Meta y otras empresas nos están preparando la llegada de este mundo paralelo, nos invita a pensar que esta vez la apuesta por lo virtual es definitiva, y que se va a invertir, ya se está haciendo, mucho dinero en crear una experiencia virtual realmente inmersiva.Therefore, in broad strokes, it is still a new generation of virtual reality techniques.But in this case it seems that the commitment goes beyond the technology itself, and that a true parallel world could be created, a screen society that will swarm through this new world in a virtual way.
Are you going to change our lives?
It all depends on the execution of this project, and how real the virtual experience is.Today virtual viewers are not so sophisticated, and most importantly, they are not comfortable to use, this is what has not allowed the virtual reality to make the leap that many expected in recent years.In the end the current virtual reality is limited to watching a movie, enjoying a game, or a limited immersive experience. Pero este Metaverso promete mucho más, y algo que podría cambiar completamente nuestra percepción de él.
And it seems that in that metavers we would have a replica of our world, a place where money would move, and where properties could be purchased, such as land within this metach, a house, a car and everything we want. Y la gran diferencia, no hablamos de compras como en las de un juego tradicional, sino que entrarían en juego los NFTs.These are completely changing the way to buy on the network, being able to access with them the ownership of a piece of this, of a virtual object, above any other internet user.
Ese puede ser el rasgo diferencial del Metaverso, un mundo en el que podamos tener una vida virtual donde crecer, evolucionar, expandirnos, y también donde hacer negocio. Parece que todos se han puesto de acuerdo en crear un mundo virtual de verdad, donde poder ser propietarios de muchas cosas.It seems that the real world is no longer enough, and we will have to mortgage to buy a house that you will not be able to touch, but to contemplate.
When will it be a reality?
Well, there should still be many years ahead so that this metavers is something "tangible" as they are selling it to us.Simply because virtual reality technologies available today are very limited. Básicamente, si el hardware de realidad virtual no da un giro de 180 grados, este Metaverso será de nuevo un fracaso.And we need devices that are able to offer us a comfortable use experience, in which there is no need heavy devices, even wear glasses to move in that metach.Something that, today, is difficult to imagine that we see it before the change of decade.