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2021 is the first year that Meta Universe stepped into the spotlight. In October of this year, Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of the social media Facebook, announced that Facebook has changed its name to Meta. The new company name includes a vision for the future: Metaverse, which combines virtual reality, augmented reality and other advanced technologies

In fact, Zuckerberg did make up his mind to enter the meta-universe earlier. Back in 2014, Zuckerberg was not immersed in the fruits of victory as a leading social media. Instead, he was looking for new projects for development and investment.

His next goal is Oculus VR, the virtual reality technology development company that known as Quest, which launched its headset in 2019, and Facebook agreed to 2 billion U.S. dollars in cash and Facebook stock to acquire Oculus VR.

Oculus was founded by Palmer Freeman Luckey and Brendan Iribe. Their first product was the Oculus Rift, a realistic virtual reality head-mounted display that is now available on the market.

The Oculus Rift went on sale for pre-orders on September 26, 2012, on Oculus’s website, selling units every four to five minutes on the first day, and the heat continued for a week.

Although the launch of first commercial Oculus Rift was successful, it did not cause a global sensation, and Oculus continues to work hard on the development of the next new, advanced and breakthrough headset virtual reality device

The success of the first device attracted many major manufacturers to join, the second product was jointly developed by Oculus, Qualcomm and Xiaomi. It was announced as Oculus Go in October 2017, and went on sale in May 2018.

The third product, the Oculus Quest, followed by the Oculus Go, was launched in May 2019, followed by the more up-to-date Oculus Quest 2, which went on sale in October 2020 and was sold in two versions, 64GB and an upgraded 128GB.

Palmer was born in Long Beach, California, with three young sisters and a mother. His father was a former car salesman. He was home-schooled by his mother at an early age, took sailing lessons and already showed an interest in electronics.

He attended a community college course when he was 14 or 15 years old. In 2009, he set up the ModRetroForums to discuss and modify game consoles and personal old computer hardware. He once studied journalism at California State University Long Beach. Served as the online editor of a student-run newspaper “Daily 49er” during the school.

Palmer spent his spare time between the ages of 11 and 16 experimenting with various high-voltage research, including coil cannons, Tesla coils and lasers, and spent tens of thousands of dollars building a computer with a complex six-display setup

He has earned at least $36,000 to support his own research through his skills in 3C products, repairing and reselling broken iPhones, working as a sailboat instructor, and repairing boats.

He is highly interested in virtual reality and has a large private collection of over 50 head-mounted dangers, some of which he acquired at auctions for less price with the money he has earned.

Brendan was born and raised in Maryland, and majored in computer science in college and dropped out after 2 semesters to become a freelance programmer, working with Palmer in 2012 to invent and sell the Oculus Rif product.

The topic of virtual reality has been quietly immersed in the past few years, and then in 2018, “Ready Player One”, a sci-fiction adventure movie, was launched, with Tye Kayle Sheridan as the leading actor

Kayle is not just an actor. He was born in Palestine, Texas, his mother owns a beauty salon, his father is a driver, and his younger sister is still in school, Kayle entered the film industry at the age of 16 to be educated and mentored and made his career a priority.

After honed in his film career, with the growth of the film industry and technology, Kayle co-founded Wonder Dynamics, an artificial intelligence manufacturing company, in 2020 with visual effects artist Nikola Todorovic.

The core mission of Wonder Dynamics is to develop the combination of artificial intelligence and first-class scripts, and it is one of the new main service organizations for the major progress of the film and television industry.

As of 2021, the cost of visual effects has been skyrocketing, draining human and natural resources. To change the situation Wonder Dynamics is expected to offer an AI-driven production platform in the future, which will allow people to create visual effects on their own that used to require mind-blowing budgets.

Wonder Dynamics is still recruiting various related fields or technical personnel. At the end of December 14, 2021, the press reported that Li Ka-shing, a Hong Kong billionaire, decided to invest in Kayle’s Wonder Dynamics after observing the growth of the meta-universe.

Li Ka-shing was born in Hu’an County, Guangdong Province, with two younger brothers and one younger sister. When Japanese planes bombed Hushan City in 1939, schools were closed and Li’s parents decided to move families to Hong Kong and asked his mother’s brother for help.

After the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the value of the Hong Kong dollar continued to depreciate and living prices soared, making life more difficult for Lee family, who had to return to Chaoan to settle down.

After the death of his father, Li Ka-shing dropped out of school and went to Hong Kong to find his uncle again. He joined the watch company run by his uncle and started as an apprentice.

He learned to repair and maintain watches and clocks in half a year. Between the ages of 12 and 18, he worked as a hardware salesman, plastic belt salesman, toy salesman ……, etc.

He was then promoted to business manager at the age of 18, and two years later was promoted to general manager, responsible for the whole business of the company, demonstrating his amazing business talent.

Li Ka-shing has always been an leading figure in Hong Kong business and enterprise. In 2004, he was ranked 19th on the Fubis list of the world’s richest people, and two years later he went to 9th place with total assets of $23 billion.

Li Ka-shing reached an agreement with the investment group Carlyle Group to sell two aircraft leasing companies, Accipiter Finance and Manchester Aviation Finance, for a total price of US$42.81.

He actively worked with Kayle and invested in Wonder Dynamics, raising $9 million in the first round alone, It also attracted capital from Fortnit’s Epic Games and Samsung.

After the shock bomb dropped by Zuckerberg’s Facebook company name changing, all classes have started to discuss the formation of the meta-universe. Many people support the popularization of the achievements of scientific and technological progress in life, but there is also many people think that the meta-universe may not be one of the visions suitable for the future of mankind.

But what we cannot deny is that the history has proven that the reason we have the current high-tech civilized society is mostly because these well-known figures and well-known companies explored people’s daily needs and problems, and developed many advanced products and technologies to solve all kinds of difficulties for human during evolution.

When people are wondering whether these trends are set by these big companies and famous people, they may want to ponder what prompted them to utilize their talents and abilities in these fields.

While Metaverse is still under the test of time and many people are still debating and waiting, the news of Li Ka-shing’s entry into Metaverse, is undoubtedly a new and powerful force for the vision of Metaverse, it is also a brand guarantee for the future life of Metaverse.

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