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In The End, is The Metaverse Happening or Not ?
We will live in a connected world, but not as Meta imagine it
Facebook/ Meta is still at the forefront of technology news with the famous metaverse.
The big news of the moment are interrelated: Meta needs blockchain and NFTs to spread, be understood, and accepted by the general public to be able to reproduce real-world monetary exchanges and property rights in its metaverse.
NFTs are at the forefront of technological news, blockchain with crypto-currencies has become something common and the metaverse feeds articles that present it sometimes as a revolution, sometimes as a futile project.
The question of the importance of the metaverse in tomorrow’s world needs to be decided once and for all so we can focus on the research and innovation that will matter tomorrow.
The metaverse will never be what Facebook imagined, but new technologies will be exploited to make us more and more connected.
The metaverse presented by Meta is not viable as it is. There are too many usabilities, human-computer interaction, and user experience issues.
A metaverse will need to take an innovative form and rethink human-computer interaction. Replicating the real world is not interesting. Virtual environments are still in the age of skeuomorphism, they need to evolve.
However, the metaverse outside of Meta symbolizes the idea that we are going to build a more and more connected world with an even more important place of digital communication technologies. In this sense, the metaverse is something that will inevitably happen by giving an important place to new forms of reality.
