Many big technology companies in the world are now investing in India. Through this, we understand that the online world highlights its position as an important trend for the future. There is no doubt that Metaverse will take technology in a different direction. Therefore, studying on top of the latest metaverse trends can provide a significant advantage. As you'll soon see, the growing frontier of the metaverse is home to a wide variety of different trends and projects.
3D Technology, AR and VR assemblies, and sonic systems play an integral role in the virtual gaming industry. Amid the rise of the Metaverse, these technologies have witnessed exponential growth, strengthening their valuation and relevance to the current market. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC)'s Quarterly AR/VR Headset Tracker, in 2021, the market for AR and VR headsets increased by 60.8%, the APAC region alone accounting for 2.19 million units in shipment.
The Sandbox, Hong Kong-based futuristic gaming platform, has developed a decentralized virtual world where users can personalize their avatars, innovate, and govern the land, as well as host events and exchange ideas. Within the metaverse, the in-game Ethereum utility token, SAND, is made available for the players to buy and sell digital assets in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). For new gamers looking to traverse into the digital simulation, the shared space facilitates the monetization of individual virtual experiences.
10.7M users have participated in Fortnite concerts Online. Metaverse could approach US$800 billion tackling live events and ads. The primary market for online game makers and gaming hardware may exceed US$400 billion in 2024 while opportunities in live entertainment and social media make up the remainder. The Decentraland's pieces of land — NFT tokens, digital land plots in Decentraland Metaverse — and other NFTs have generated over 75,000 sales for a total of nearly US$25 million.
As the world becomes increasingly virtual, digitized, and computerized, our ability to control and manipulate it increases. Think about how just a generation or two ago, cars were entirely mechanical, and if anything went wrong with them, we needed to alter aspects of their performance, or we would need to alter the physical mechanisms such as the engine, brakes, or gearboxes. Today we can plug them into a computer and diagnose faults as well as fine-tune every aspect of their performance. This already goes way beyond cars, with computers and microchips found in every device from kettles to bathroom scales. Medicines and vaccines can be programmed to target specific diseases or to be effective in people with a particular genetic disposition.
Metaverse trends also point to avatars becoming more sophisticated. At the moment, avatars can come in a variety of different forms. This ranges from 2D avatars to photorealistic forms that appear almost exactly like people in the offline world.
Meta's well known for its advanced and nearly-photorealistic avatars. Support for these avatars over all of the company's products will increase over time. Meanwhile, Microsoft focuses on using AI technology to create avatars that fit into a business environment thanks to responsive animation. Popular apps like Zepeto and OSUVOX make it easy to create avatars and export them into different metaverse implementations.
Metaverse is enough to bridge the gap between the virtual and the real. And the biggest example of this is motion tracking. Gradually we are moving towards a generation where there will be no such difference between virtual and real.
That is to say, we can occupy virtual and real places at the same time. And more powerful tracking technology is needed to enable this landscape. Which enables users to monitor every movement and gesture.
Another force to completely transform the way a business operates and consumers experience, interact and analyze the built world is 3D digital twin technology. This technology creates an immersive 3D virtual and dimensionally accurate model of any building or space. This means businesses will be able to create accurate replicas of physical locations, which will then operate as separate entities.
While consumers, on the other hand, can use digital twin technology for trying on clothes virtually and checking out new shops before it even opens up. They can even visualize and confirm whether new furniture would fit before making a purchase for the home, all from the comfort of their couch.
People can usually make perfect copies of digital entities. Any reproduction of a text file will be identical to the original. But NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are one-of-a-kind digital items. NFTs are tied into the blockchain as a unique entity.
NFTs are used in a wide variety of crypto projects. For example, Decentraland is a metaverse virtual world where NFT land sales are a thriving industry. And Axie Infinity even ties virtual animals into unique NFTs so that they can be cultivated or sold.
The immersive and ubiquitous aspects of the metaverse will increasingly demand cloud computing tools to process, store, and analyze the data generated on platforms. A metaverse platform will not succeed if it cannot deliver a seamless user experience or struggles to scale. In March 2022, Nvidia launched the Omniverse Cloud, a suite of cloud services that gives artists, creators, designers, and developers access to Omniverse for 3D design collaboration and simulation.
The rise of digital art comes as no surprise, considering the growing popularity of NFTs, digital assets, and blockchain technology. Virtual art galleries are labeled among the widely adopted industry trends of the Metaverse, as it's market worth is posited at US$2.4 billion. Virtual art galleries are a new kind of immersive space where artists and digital creators can showcase their NFT exhibitions for collectors, art fanatics can experience a sensational virtual environment, and even trade their favorites.
The Metaverse will be capturing a mass amount of data, which it will mine and act almost immediately. While the Metaverse is based on distributed technology like blockchain, the ability to ensure the data captured at one part of the Metaverse is reflected in the user's experience in another. Hence, study on the next generation of data engineering becomes a key trend of education in the world of Metaverse. To adequately prepare for the Metaverse, it should be ensured that the data science approach is simple, modern, and effective to make sense of the new world.
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