What is Metaverse Technology

Kavindu Chethani
SLIIT Women In FOSS Community
3 min readJul 30, 2022

Let’s take a look about metaverse

Metaverse is difficult to define it’s usually described as online spaces where people socialize work and play as avatars digital representations of their identities, unlike a Zoom chat the spaces don’t disappear when you’re done they’re there for someone else to use though it’s often name checked in the tech world the metaverse is still a fuzzy idea for people outside the industry.

The metaverse is clearly a term of great currency in this moment in time, It’s a story that telling about what future of technical infrastructures might look like when you combine virtual reality augmented reality high speed internet connections and some kind of notion of a virtual space you might occupy with other people so an easy answer the metaverse is well it’s you know the next version of the future of computing the more complicated answer is of course it’s a story about how we imagine the world.

Meta and other companies tout the metaverse as an evolution of the internet a virtual world that parallels our lives in the real world but it’s an idea that’s been tossed around for decades and tried before one of the other ways to think about the metaverse is that It’s always already existed in different pockets of the world right so whether you were someone engaging in gaming experiences whether those were multiplayer games or whether those were deeply immersive games if you were engaging in other kinds of online communities there’s an argument to say that the metaverse is already here just wasn’t called that roblox and minecraft have been building virtual worlds for years.

Virtual Reality

SECOND LIVE, FORNITE , MINECRAFT and other games all incorporate aspects of virtual augmented or mixed reality to create an immersive gaming experience for users. If You unfamiliar with the term virtual reality refers to entirely digital spaces that are accessed through hardware like the oculus headset. These headsets use special lens technology cameras and motion tracking controllers to fully immerse you in their digital worlds where objects can seem real even when they aren’t.

Augmented reality

Augmented reality is related but different technology AR brings digital objects into the real world often with new headset required though there are some AR headsets on the market. Some experts see augmented reality as a gateway to broader acceptance of the metaverse the technology has continued to advance and continue to find touch points in all of our lives whether it’s through you know mobile phones connected to the internet or other forms connectivity smart TV all those of pieces.

The metaverse is expected to consolidate all isolated immersive virtual ecosystems and merge them into a unified whole in the near future. The end result will be a single massive all-encompassing metaverse accessible via a single browser (just like the internet offering various websites)

In this article I’m go through some basics about What is metaverse technology. If you guys find this article useful , share with your friends. Thank you.

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Kavindu Chethani
Kavindu Chethani

Written by Kavindu Chethani

IT undergraduate | DEV enthusiastic