MetaVerse : Are We Evolving to Next phase ?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Connect 2021 on October 28, 2021, introduced Meta, which eventually brought the Facebook apps and their technologies under a new umbrella or a new company brand “Meta”. They are creating MetaVerse which might be another next step to Human Evolution. So, Are you Ready to evolve to the MetaVerse of Life?
Welcome to the Metaverse Era of the Life
“You might be wondering if this can be a kind of The Matrix or Avatar where you are using a virtual avatar of yourself to meet with other people in the universe or around the world.”
Meta is like a hybrid of today’s online experience which can be expanded sometimes into three dimensions or projected into the physical world. It allows the people to share immersive experiences with other people even when people can’t be together and do things together you couldn’t do in the physical world.
The metaverse doesn’t really exist — at least not yet. The idea was popularized by the 1992 novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, a persistent virtual reality world navigated by the book’s protagonist. Also, other science-fiction books, movies, and TV Shows like The Matrix, Ready Player One, and Stranger Things. You can also explore the concept of “mirror worlds” where everything in the real world has a digital counterpart.
Metaverse : Key Impact Areas
Oculus : Gateway to Metaverse
To experience any Virtual reality and Mixed Reality Experience in this current form of available Technology you require a VR Headset or at least a Smart Glass.
Since 2014, Facebook has acquired many AR/VR/XR startups one of the key investments among those was the Acquisition of ‘Oculus’
Oculus headsets such as quest, quest 2, Oculus go enable you to experience the best of the AR/VR/XR world have to offer.
Cost:
Oculus Quest 2 (128 GB): 31500 INR. at Amazon India
Oculus Quest 2 (256 GB): 39999 INR. at Amazon India
Ongoing Works at Facebook Reality Labs
Core Research
AR experiences
Polar
$150M Immersive Learning education program
Aimed to help create economic opportunities for AR/VR creators and developers, ranging from new training and career development resources to new content and technology partnerships.
○ Spark AR Certification: AR creators will be provided with a formal pathway and program to demonstrate their knowledge and proficiency of Spark AR, and Research.
to earn a Facebook Certified Spark AR Creator credential. The first exam will take place in November and registration will open soon.
VR and XR Experiences
● New fitness offerings on Oculus: Supernatural boxing, new FitXR fitness studios, and Player 22 by Rezzil, which is currently used by pro athletes, are adding guided and hand-tracked bodyweight exercises.
● Active Pack for Quest 2: A fitness accessories pack that makes Quest 2 more comfortable, with controller grips for when things get intense, and a facial interface that you can wipe the sweat off, making your sessions more comfortable. That’s coming next year.
● Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: The Rockstar Games classic, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is currently in development for Oculus Quest 2. This new version will offer players an entirely new way to experience this iconic open-world in virtual reality.
● Vertigo Games Partnership: Oculus is partnering with Vertigo games to bring a total of five games to the Oculus platform.
● Beat Saber update: Beat Saber surpassed $100 million in gross lifetime revenue on the Quest platform. We also shared a teaser for a new update, coming soon.
● POPULATION: ONE ongoing updates: POPULATION: ONE will be offering a double XP weekend October 30-31 tied to its Halloween event that went live last week. Next month, they’ll launch an Autumn event, followed by a Winter Wonderland update in December. Since its launch last October, POPULATION: ONE has seen more than 5 million friend connections made in-game, as reported by BigBox VR, the title’s developer.
● Blade & Sorcery launch date: Blade & Sorcery: Nomad is launching exclusively for the Quest 2 on November 4, 2021.
A broad range of machine perception and AI capabilities will enable developers to build mixed reality experiences on the
Quest platform. A realistic sense of presence will be key to feeling connected in the Metaverse, and Presence Platform’s capabilities deliver on this promise with things like environmental understanding, content placement and persistence, voice interaction, and standardized hand interactions. Presence Platform consists of three offerings: Insight SDK for developing mixed reality experiences, Interaction SDK to make it easier to add hand interactions to apps, and Voice SDK to make voice input a part of the experiences they build.
Soon when you join an Oculus Party you’ll be able to invite your friends into a new social version of your Home where they’ll be embodied as their avatars. You’ll be able to spend time together with friends, co-watch videos together, and launch games and apps together
Horizon Worlds is just the jumping off point. Connect with people all over the world and test your skills, imagination, and more.
Soon you’ll be able to communicate with your friends across all your apps and devices — including Portal — with Messenger calling in VR coming later this year. From anywhere in VR, you’ll be able to invite your Facebook friends to join a Messenger call and eventually spend time together or travel to VR destinations.
A place to focus and work using the new suite of 2D panel apps, or just check a few things off your to-do list.
● Workrooms customization: For Horizon Workrooms, we’re working on launching the capability to customize your Workroom with your company logo, posters, or designs.
Services like Slack, Dropbox, Facebook and Instagram, and many more will soon work in VR as 2D panel apps in Horizon Home — so you can multitask, cross things off your to-do list between gaming sessions, and stay connected while in VR. This starts bringing some of your favorite 2D internet services into the metaverse.
This will bring work capabilities into consumer Quest devices, including the ability to log into Quest 2 with a Work Account instead of your personal Facebook account. It will also bring businesses the tools they need, like account management, IDP & SSO integration, Mobile Device Management and more. Beginning to test this year; fully available in 2023.
- Fitness
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● New fitness offerings on Oculus: Supernatural boxing, new FitXR fitness studios, and Player 22 by Rezzil, which is currently used by pro athletes, are adding guided and hand-tracked bodyweight exercises.
● Active Pack for Quest 2: A fitness accessories pack that makes Quest 2 more comfortable, with controller grips for when things get intense, and a facial interface that you can wipe the sweat off, making your sessions more comfortable. That’s coming next year.
- Gaming
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● Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: The Rockstar Games classic, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is currently in development for Oculus Quest 2. This new version will offer players an entirely new way to experience this iconic open-world in virtual reality.
● Vertigo Games Partnership: Oculus is partnering with Vertigo games to bring a total of five games to the Oculus platform.
● Beat Saber update: Beat Saber surpassed $100 million in gross lifetime revenue on the Quest platform. We also shared a teaser for a new update, coming soon.
● POPULATION: ONE ongoing updates: POPULATION: ONE will be offering a double XP weekend October 30-31 tied to its Halloween event that went live last week. Next month, they’ll launch an Autumn event, followed by a Winter Wonderland update in December. Since its launch last October, POPULATION: ONE has seen more than 5 million friend connections made in-game, as reported by BigBox VR, the title’s developer.
● Blade & Sorcery launch date: Blade & Sorcery: Nomad is launching exclusively for the Quest 2 on November 4, 2021.
- Presence Platform
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A broad range of machine perception and AI capabilities will enable developers to build mixed reality experiences on the
Quest platform. A realistic sense of presence will be key to feeling connected in the Metaverse, and Presence Platform’s capabilities deliver on this promise with things like environmental understanding, content placement and persistence, voice interaction, and standardized hand interactions. Presence Platform consists of three offerings: Insight SDK for developing mixed reality experiences, Interaction SDK to make it easier to add hand interactions to apps, and Voice SDK to make voice input a part of the experiences they build.
- Horizon Home
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Soon when you join an Oculus Party you’ll be able to invite your friends into a new social version of your Home where they’ll be embodied as their avatars. You’ll be able to spend time together with friends, co-watch videos together, and launch games and apps together
- Horizon Worlds
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Horizon Worlds is just the jumping off point. Connect with people all over the world and test your skills, imagination, and more.
- Messenger
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Soon you’ll be able to communicate with your friends across all your apps and devices — including Portal — with Messenger calling in VR coming later this year. From anywhere in VR, you’ll be able to invite your Facebook friends to join a Messenger call and eventually spend time together or travel to VR destinations.
- Horizon Workroom
-
A place to focus and work using the new suite of 2D panel apps, or just check a few things off your to-do list.
● Workrooms customization: For Horizon Workrooms, we’re working on launching the capability to customize your Workroom with your company logo, posters, or designs.
- 2D Apps in Home
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Services like Slack, Dropbox, Facebook and Instagram, and many more will soon work in VR as 2D panel apps in Horizon Home — so you can multitask, cross things off your to-do list between gaming sessions, and stay connected while in VR. This starts bringing some of your favorite 2D internet services into the metaverse.
- Quest for Business
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This will bring work capabilities into consumer Quest devices, including the ability to log into Quest 2 with a Work Account instead of your personal Facebook account. It will also bring businesses the tools they need, like account management, IDP & SSO integration, Mobile Device Management and more. Beginning to test this year; fully available in 2023.
Hardware Works
Project Cambaria
Project Cambria is currently in its prototyping phase, but Oculus parent company Facebook has stated that it focuses on face- and eye-tracking. Just like any other popular virtual reality headset on the market, Project Cambria will wrap around its user’s face to provide the virtual experience. Unlike previous Oculus headsets, Project Cambria introduces pancake lenses which will likely improve the design of the headset.
Project Nazare
wrist-based electromyography (EMG) input technology that Meta believes will be key to controlling future devices — could one day allow you to send a message in AR with your hand resting comfortably at your side.
They are also building AI that understands your context and can give you a simple set of choices based on that context. They demoed a series of assistant-related smart home experiences enabled by Project Aria.
These experiences are proofs of concept for the types of interactions AR glasses will one day bring to us. Our first fully-fledged AR glasses — Project Nazare — are still a few years out, Are you excited by the progress ?
Ray-Ban Stories
Ray-Ban Stories pairs with the new Facebook View app, so you can share your point of view, stories, and memories seamlessly with friends and social media followers. The Facebook View app on iOS and Android makes it easy to import, edit, and share content captured on the smart glasses to apps on your phone: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, and more. You can also save content to your phone’s camera roll and edit and share from there. And new, exclusive post-capture enhancements built into Facebook View let you create unique content to put a special spin on your posts.
Our Verdict about MetaVerse
We at FreeFlow Technologies believe whether you want it or not. You and Most of us, have already started evolving into the MetaVerse Phase of Life. Our Facelabs Team is also super excited about this. as they are also working on a similar domain of technology. So, we have to slowly embrace it. Good or Bad that only the future can answer.
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