IoT was almost carved in late nineties starting with medical devices, thermostats but now it has become a synonym with every other automation from smart light to connected cars. Of course, it doesn’t stop here, social media giants’ life Facebook has taken this to yet another level of success (in coming years) and that’s Metaverse.
In short Metaverse can be considered an extension of devices, point of contextual intelligence and places connected via ultrahigh speed low latency networks to a convergence platform (and vice versa) to offer you highly immersive experience where your look alike avatars would be teleported in real time to offer you something that is unimaginable today.
“…Metaverse can be considered an extension of devices, contextual intelligence & places connected via ultrahigh speed low latency networks to a convergence platform to offer you highly immersive experience…”
Key contributors to this are,
Devices, from standalone sensors to ultrahigh versatile headsets (Quest 2 is just a beginning though!) that would allow you to immerse yourself with your friends in real time to a premier league football final thousands of miles away. Sensors that combine contextual data and the mind-reading level of EMG technology while capturing the human inputs to control the virtual world.
Speed, that teleports you in augmented reality, a ultrahigh speed low latency fibre or 5G (and beyond) network, that allows seamless transposition of your avatar with two way transmission of this limitless data, Just imagine you in a live concert with your friends in a another country, different timezone, hence all of the material factors such as environment, stadia, live data of just not the stage but the full arena you can feel and observe through such gigaspeed platforms.
Platform, which will allow these multiple feeds of high speed data to be converged and re-transmitted over miles away without any hitch or stitch, as it won’t work with standalone Instagram filters alone, we will need something very real, in other words your photo avatar that actually allows you to be felt in the scene rather than a superimposed imagery.
Not to forget that underlying this is a massive high current sea of data (sorry, data lake seems obsolete here ☹) that’s not just enormous but continuously evolving with changing patterns and multiple feeds that needs to be streamed together bidirectionally without a glitch. These data need to be stored and processed seamlessly which would require vivid concepts to materialize it.
Hence to sum up, it would be an effort from game architects, platform designers, cloud creators & hardware OEMs to unite their effort towards something revolutionary as this in next 3-7 years.
Well, this might sound ridiculous to some of you, but if you remember when people spoke about connected cars 20 years ago, all of them were considered lunatic. So, think twice this time as it won’t take another 20!!
