Metaverse

Every new technology sometimes I feel I need to understand out of FOMO - Fear of missing out. Metaverse - Meta represents beyond, Verse represents the universe, beyond the universe. Ideally, different components of metaverse existed earlier. We had AR, VR, AI, Robotics, Computer Vision, and adoption has been successful/ongoing. A system that would encompass everything and layout a virtual platform is a metaverse. 

Today you collaborate with the Mural board, Teams, Whiteboard. Oculus, Hololens, Google glass many of these projects tried to project some form of information into the real world. Something similar if it could encompass and provide Engagement, experience, and emotions is all what metaverse to go about.

Microsoft, Facebook, Google have all been trying to get a break on this. We know what happened to google glass, What happed to Nokia. Some of the projects end up as kitchen sink. They never make it to production. Although there are benefits of these components the First-mover cost, experimentation, getting the tech breakthrough may involve a lot more costs. 

Essentially when it becomes affordable it may end up as another commodity device, a play store kind of ecosystem where apps get published.

5G may power provide the required network speed but the rest of AR, VR, Robotics, Vision, Blockchain may still need some iterations to get some use case beyond what we have individually for AR, VR, Vision, Robotics etc.

Keep Thinking!!!