Chapter 6: Enhance personal life
The internet has vastly improved the quality of life for most of the people who use it. From new jobs, to new friendships, to personal fame, the advent of the internet has changed quite a lot of lives. The metaverse is going to do the exact same thing on a much bigger scale. People will have access to a lot of different things, including new ways to game, learn, travel, and share their viewpoint with the world!
One of the biggest uses that most people want to get out of the Metaverse is how gaming works within it. MMO games and VR headsets allow for some idea of what the metaverse would be like, and science fiction movies such as “Ready Player One” also share the idea of thousands of Avatars sharing a game world, fighting one another, participating in events, and stimulating a game’s world and economy.
More than likely the metaverse will make you feel like you are in a video game. For example, if you stand on a mountaintop in a VR game like Skyrim for example, you will be able to see the mountain, but that’s about it. With the Metaverse, you will actually feel the biting cold and smell the smells of the mountain too.
Whenever you die in a VR game or take some damage, your character might react and you will see your health bar drop. However, in the Metaverse, you might feel some type of jolt or impact whenever you get hit.
The name of the game with the Metaverse and gaming within it is going to be immersion. You need to feel like you are in the game world. Gaming is going to feel like a 2nd way of life and if you love gaming and playing with friends together right now, the metaverse is going to make that even more pronounced and immersive!
Social opportunities in the Metaverse will be much more pronounced than in the real world. For example, you will be able to find friends and connect with them no matter where they are. We’ve all got at least one online friend or a group of friends, and while connecting with them over Discord or Zoom or some other platform is fun, you are still looking at your friend through a mobile device.
In the metaverse you will be able to sit in various locations, or even do activities such as playing a game, watching a movie, or skiing down a mountain. You will be able to see and even touch their avatars as well.
Even dating will be heavily enhanced in the metaverse, where you can find your soulmate and take them anywhere to get to know them. Instead of the standard first dates and awkward pickup lines, you can instead take the object of your affections to walk along the beach or have a quiet conversation in an intimate cafe. It will allow you to get to know the real person and not just what they are telling you about themselves through a screen.
Additionally, if you’ve got something that you want to share with an audience of people, you will easily find your platform in the metaverse, and can become a teacher for people as well. This could be a second wave, just like social media was, and if you can get into it early, you will be able to build a large following and build a business.
Finally, you will be able to unwind from personal troubles and just unwind in the metaverse. Whether you want to sit on the beach and relax, curl up with a book in a rainy cabin, or relax with a loved one beside a fire, you will be able to get away from the real world a bit. That’s what the majority of the people are probably going to use the metaverse for, just like how most people use video games or social media to get some stress relief and escape from the rough problems of the world.
If you want to experience the full experience that the metaverse has to offer, you will need some of the above mentioned pieces of technology. While the things you need aren’t set in stone just yet, you will need haptic suits, headsets, an internet connection, and probably some accounts for the various areas of the metaverse you want to get into.