What does the next version of the metaverse look like?
The metaverse, in and of itself, is one of the most searched words of the past year, making it the buzzword of 2022. However, few really know what a metaverse is and what it is going to achieve in the coming years. In the short term, the metaverse looks like another space we will spend time on, in a digital form, essentially a website on steroids. In the long term, the metaverse will be a place where we not only spend more time socializing, but a new digital world where we will spend more time shopping, working and playing.
Enter, the Megaverse metaverse — one of the world’s first hyper-realistic, multipurpose metaverse built completely in Unreal Engine 5 that is VR enabled, and now ready in an alpha form for users to come and Live, Work, Shop and Play. The company’s vision and mission is to commercialize and professionalize the industry by implementing the highest standards of quality, design and hyper-realistic innovations in this new digital world.
Metaverse 2.0 means that it is the next version, the upgrade and the next phase of the metaverse; very similar to the early days of the internet where many first version websites were quickly upgraded to implement different aspects for user interactions, search and connectivity of industries.
Megaverse is creating a space for employers to meet remotely with their employees, for retailers to digitize their entire experience, for fashion designers to take the next step into the phygital world (combining the digital and physical products) and for educators to give a futuristic look into the world of edutainment.
Founder and CEO Mojtaba Assadian lists the main differentiators that set Megaverse apart as “the superior design quality and hyper-realism of the world that resembles our real-world experience. Users want to feel like they are stepping into the same or an even more heightened experience, as they are in our physical world and the only way that’s possible is through excellent design quality”.
That is the definition of metaverse 2.0, a world that resembles our own and allows us to interact with it as if we would physically; whether we go to the shopping mall or work remotely from our office settings. We have been promised so many different features from the Meta Company about what the metaverse can and will be, but with little to show as it pertains to any alpha build. Megaverse is one of the world’s first alpha ready metaverse built completely in Unreal Engine 5, with VR compatibility from its inception.
In the future, with the development of haptics and hyper-realistic avatars, we won’t be able to tell what is real and what is fully digital. The developments of AR will even further take us into that hyper-realistic environment and allow us to truly live, work, shop and play in the metaverse.
