【My Study Note】What is the Metaverse?
What is the Metaverse?
What’s the difference between the headsets?
- HTC Vive
- Meta Quest
- Valve Index
- HP Reverb
Devices vary in terms of their hardware, resolution, field of view — which means how much the virtual world you can see in front of you at one time, and price.
Worlds you can explore in the metaverse right now without AR or VR hardware
- AltspaceVR
- VR Chat
- Decentraland
Explore virtual social experiences in the metaverse
- ENGAGE
- AltspaceVR
- VRChat
- Somnium Space
What is game engine?
Game engines control things such as how to handle 2D and 3D graphics. They determine how physics and collisions work, like when two objects touch. The game engine tells them how to react, but when you press a button on a controller or device, the game engine decides what happens. Sound, networking, input, memory, scripting, memory management, streaming, even AI, are all part of the game engine. These frees up creative teams on the content side to focus on storylines, characters, levels, graphics, and more.
Common Game Engine
- Unity 3D Engine
- Unreal
Meaning of immersion
Immersion means being engrossed or absorbed in something, to become fully involved. When we talk about immersion in the metaverse, we mean entering a virtual world and being able to interact with and manipulate it.
Meaning of XR
XR, this stands for extended reality. It’s a catch-all term for the ways we combine physical and digital worlds: virtual reality (which fully immerses us in the digital), augmented reality (which takes place in the physical world, but with a digital layer on top), and mixed reality (which is a blending of physical and digital).
More precisely about MR
Headsets that can do mixed reality, or MR, means that you can see your surroundings with digital content overlaid into the physical world. Examples of mixed reality devices include Microsoft HoloLens, and, Meta Quest.
Do you wanna build one?
Meta Spark is a Meta technology that lets users built AR experiences.
» Meta Spark
DeFi
DeFi, an abbreviation of decentralized finance, describes peer-to-peer financial services and banking that uses blockchain technology. It doesn’t change what banking can be done. Participants can still make and receive payments, establish loans, and earn interest on deposits. But it changes how it happens. Rather than relying on traditional banking institutions, DeFi essentially tries to eliminate the middleman. With DeFi, participants keep their money in a digital wallet, not a bank.
DAO
DAO stands for a decentralized autonomous organization. In an economic context, think of a DAO as a blockchain-based organization, through which people—from all over, who may never have met—establish the rules for things like how to invest funds to finance their shared purpose, vision, or common goal.
A DAO has no central authority; each member of a DAO has a share of voting rights—based on how much each member has contributed—and they collectively make decisions about the organization. It can be helpful to compare a DAO to a traditional, member-operated cooperative such as a food cooperative, or co-op, where food is produced and distributed by members of the group, not controlled by a company.