Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA's metabers are the second dance of "Second Life"!?

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　"Metaverse" is a word created by the writer Neil Stevensun in the science fiction novel Snow Crash released in 1992.In this work, the meta spring is a generic term for a shared virtual space that combines physical space and the virtual world that looks physically, and it contains a virtual world, extended reality, and the Internet.However, the idea itself dates back to the Neuromancer, announced by William Gibson in 1984.In the same work, the meta spring was described as "cyber space".Today, online games such as "WORLD OF WARCRAFT", "Minecraft" and "Roblox" are also incorporated in metavers.

Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA Metabers Strategy

　The concept of metahase may create anxiety and fear. However, the fusion of real life and digital life is already progressing. Regardless of whether you like it, it will continue to work on technology, platforms and infrastructure, whether five years ahead or ten years ahead. Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, hereinafter "Meta") has invested a lot in AR and VR, including acquiring Oculus VR in 2014. The VR headset product "Oculus Quest" series will be "Meta Quest" from 2022. Meta's meta spring "Horizon Workrooms" is currently open β. This is Meta's main collaboration experience, and people can work in the same virtual room regardless of physical distance. With a VR headset, you can interact with a digital avatar in an online office. This is not just a video call using a headset. Members can share digital whiteboards and interact with avatars to experience directive audio. Microsoft is also preparing its own metabirth vision. The company developed HoloLens and acquired AltspaceVR in 2017. Immediately after Facebook changed the company name to Meta, Microsoft announced that it will introduce the Microsoft Mesh in 2022 in 2022. MESH is a collaboration platform for virtual experience. As a result, a company's unique meta spring is built in Teams, and 3D animation avatars can be used. Microsoft's metaberth technical stack includes mesh, "Azure IoT" and "Azure Digital Twins". Microsoft and Meta have announced the integration of Teams and Workplace from Meta. This allows Teams to access the Workplace content. In terms of paid user -based, Teams (200 million as of July 2021) exceeds Workplace (7 million as of May 2021), but in any case accelerating the path to enterprise meta spring. It will be a step. However, there are concerns about trust and privacy whether people want people to fuse their work life in personal social media. NVIDIA has announced the NVIDIA OMNIVERSE, an open source tool that can build a virtual world. OMNIVERSE is a simulation and collaboration platform that "functions as a union organization in the physically accurate virtual 3D world". Ericson has built a digital twin (physical asset 3D replica) using Omniverse to consider the deployment method of the 5G network. In the second part, we will introduce Metabas, which is being introduced in business and industry.

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