Metaverse: Most Basic Need for humans after Food, Cloth, Shelter, and Social Security

On October 28, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta. Since then, everybody is damn curious — What the heck is Metaverse?

Is cryptocurrency Metaverse? Are Virtual Reality games Metaverse? Are humans going to live in Metaverse by 2030?

Understanding Metaverse from fundamental human nature

Once humans get essential requirements like Food, Clothes, Shelter, and Social Security, what does a human being crave most? Community.

Community — A sense of belonging and acceptance.

It doesn’t matter if it is a college friends group or a boredape yacht club. All we need is a group where we belong.

What’s missing from a Zoom call?

Before telephones, people discussed the news in Local community centers. Once telephones became common, people started doing conference calls. Then we moved to WhatsApp groups and now zoom calls.

What’s missing from the tech-enabled community is a personal feel and connection.

You can’t relate to another person by hearing their voice alone or talking to their small tiny photo on zoom call.

What if we could hug each other on a zoom call?

Now imagine a digital world, where friends could hang out, play virtually real games together or watch the latest movie together in a movie theatre. And that too while sitting in the comfort of their home. Ok, you could say a Roblox or its clone could do that.

What if we wanted a touch(pun intended) of reality? What if we could hug each other and handshake in that virtual world?

Metaverse — Do Social Network and eCommerce with a touch of reality from your bedroom!

So Metaverse is Roblox with a great sense of reality-like touch! A world where you could go shopping, drive F1 cars, maybe look much cooler or weirder with your digital avatar.

Wildly fun and amazing real-life use-cases

• What if I(my avatar) could work with my remote team members in a virtual setup and pat their back on their achievements?
• What if I could meet and touch my parents living in another city?
• What if an IIT professor could teach a group of students from India’s villages in a classroom?

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