Technology is undergoing diverse and drastic changes that cannot be barely comprehended and accepted by the common people because it is beyond our concept and imagination. However, it is obvious that technology is surpassing many revolutionary changes that have the potential to affect human lives in multitudes of ways. Most of the changes that we have experienced have bestowed us with a positive impact on our lives, but there may be changes that can also negatively influence us.
What is Metaverse?
Nowadays, everyone is quite familiar with the stellar word “NFT” and its endless possibilities. Perhaps, the term “ Metaverse” will be quite strange, not to everyone, but the majority. The metaverse, in simple terms, can be elaborated as the world where your digital self can reside. It is your digital self which is known as “Avatar,” and it has the capability to move throughout the virtual world and interact with other people who also have their own avatars in the virtual world.
This is what we are quite familiar with for the past many years while playing video games like Fortnite and Roblox, and it has become even more interesting and captivating with virtual reality. However, it is important to know that virtual reality will not always be part of the Metaverse. Virtual reality can ameliorate your experience in the Metaverse, but you also could use a regular screen where you can operate your avatar.
Metaverse is a combination of both virtual reality and augmented reality; hence, many activities will be more interesting and attractive due to the use of both VR and AR. Anyone can engage in virtual events with your avatar and communicate with the masses in a VR setting.
Major Metaverse Platforms Brimming with Potential
Decentraland
Ari Meilich and Esteban Ordano, both from Argentina, founded Decentraland. Decentraland is an open-source 3D virtual world platform that is one of the oldest Metaverse platforms. It has previously partnered with two large monopolies, Samsung and the Australian Open University (AO).
Decentraland is a single-layered Metaverse platform separated into equal grids. A “LAND” is the name given to each and every coordinate. Land is scarce, and the community’s sole option is to produce new land using the Decentraland DAO (a decision-making tool for LAND and MANA holders).
Users of Decentraland can trade digital real estate while they play, interact, and explore this virtual realm. It has implemented interactive apps, in-world payments, and peer-to-peer communication for users as a result of greater improvements in this platform.
LAND and MANA LAND are two sorts of tokens that can be used to manage operations in Decentraland: A non-fungible token that is used to represent the ownership of digital real estate land parcels is land.
MANA is a cryptocurrency that may be used to buy LAND as well as other virtual products and services in Decentraland.
The Decentraland program tracks ownership of this digital land using the Ethereum blockchain, and it needs users to keep their MANA token in an Ethereum wallet in order to interact with its ecosystem.
Within the Decentraland platform, developers have complete freedom to design the animation and interactions that users will encounter on their virtual real estate.
Somnium Space
Somnium Space, the invention of Artur Sychov, is a virtual reality realm in the Metaverse. The platform’s first working draughts were released in 2017. Somnium Space has been open to the public since September of 2018. The territory of Somnium Space is uneven, and it comes with Somnium Space CUBEs, an erc20 token. The area is accessible via VR, PC, and Web, and it is also mobile-friendly. The biggest focus is paid to the virtual reality experience.
Somnium Space contains 5,000 land parcels that are unevenly divided into plots, as well as a pre-generated map. Every now and again, the community releases new land.
Consider how individuals may go to a shopping mall, see a movie at a theater, rent an apartment, or eat at a five-star restaurant. The advantage is that you create all of these locations and are compensated each time a visitor visits your virtual world.
Somnium Spaces does not employ subservers and is not like standard multiplayer VR games in that it houses all of its players in a single virtual world. Within that space, users can create fully configurable, programmable environments, surroundings, and arenas that can give standalone VR experiences.
The SandBox
Sandbox began as a game in 2012, founded by Arthur Madrid (CEO) and Sebastien Borget (COO). Animoca Brands purchased the company in 2018, and added 3D and blockchain to the game. In November 2021, the metaverse shifted. Sandbox’s currency is known as “SAND.” To construct a virtual Mega City, the company is collaborating with a number of partners in the entertainment, financial, gaming, real estate, and Hong Kong film industries.
Sandbox is essentially a Metaverse layer that is evenly separated into a grid in a regular manner. Users can unite plots to create larger regions because the land is all the same size. There is just so much land available. Sandbox land is sold at auctions and can be purchased with Binance’s SAND money.
The Sandbox Game Maker Alpha is a free game design software that allows designers to quickly create 3D voxel worlds using templates.
The Sandbox is a decentralized NFT game Metaverse powered by Ethereum that allows non-techies to design, sell, utilize, and monetize their own virtual reality NFTs. The entire in-game economy is supported by the crypto Metaverse’s native cryptocurrency SAND.
The Sandbox game’s building blocks are 3D pixels known as voxels—a term that isn’t unique to The Sandbox project and alludes to virtual reality development. In The Sandbox, players use the free Sandbox VoxEdit program to build their own game experiences out of these lego-like parts.
Conclusion
The Metaverse is a popular topic in the NFT community right now, especially since Facebook announced it would rename itself as Meta and become a Metaverse corporation. For the audience to begin with, there are various sorts and forms of Metaverse platforms, each with its own unique features and characteristics.