With Facebook’s announcement to change their name to Meta and with their future plans a lot of Metaverse Coins like SAND or MANA went trough the roof. In this article we will discuss what other news regarding Metaverse happened in the past weeks and what it could mean for us in the future.
After Facebook, Microsoft has announced its plans to create a metaverse of its own. They will start with the popular Microsoft Teams Office communication platform. This project is titled MESH and it is supposed to feature avatars that can meet in office type settings to do office type things. How exciting, said no one ever! I am just imagine how many people will modify their characters into a big Oger just to troll their Co-workers. Honestly, I don’t think this is very exciting. Anyways, MESH is expected to roll out in 2022.
What is more exciting is the next news. Microsoft is planning to announce also a informal X-Box metaverse. Unfortunately, there are not many details about that but comments by a Microsoft CEO suggests that X-Box is looking to make existing games such as Minecraft more immersive by introducing elements of virtual reality. This sounds more like fun and I could imagine this having a big potential. They just have to look at the Sandbox metaverse which looks very similar to Minecraft.
Clothing brands like Nike want to go in the same direction. Apparently, Nike is looking to hire two people to help bring the Nike brand to the Metaverse worlds. The plan is to sell virtual clothing as part of its metaverse push. This step could be due to the lost profits that were caused trough the pandemic. But this is also just speculations. Anyways, it would be very cool to see a Nike store in sandbox where you can shop, just like in the world. Or imagine the potential for a big mall where several stores like Nike, Adidas and Under Armor can buy plots of land to sell their new virtual clothing line. This way they could test new designs without producing them and then bring them out into the real world. Pretty amazing if you ask me.
Conclusion
All of these news seem to pump up all of the prices of the Metaverse projects. Investors see the opportunity of a crossover between these projects and real world industries like the clothing industry. Maybe we could even see brands like BMW or Ford joining this trend but I guess this wont happen any time soon. It would be pretty fun though being able to purchase a new BMW M4 and drive around with it in the Metaverse. Furthermore, the next step would also be to develop a projects which aims to connect all of the metaverse projects. This could lead to an amazing experience!
Published by ga38jem on
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On 8th November 2021
Sources:
https://mixed.de/halo-minecraft-flugsimulator-microsoft-chef-verspricht-3d-metaversen/
https://www.btc-echo.de/news/nike-geht-ins-metaverse-cryptokicks-auch-am-start-128861/
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/02/nike-is-quietly-preparing-for-the-metaverse-.html
https://enjin.io/blog/100m-efinity-metaverse-fund
