02/08/2021
The next generation of the internet is coming and is all about “digital worlds”.
After the recent announcement of Adam, head of Inst@gram, that the app is no longer a photo-sharing app but a platform where people go “to be entertained”, it’s time for another announcement that's going to shake up the social media market.
F@ceb0ok has a new goal: to become a metaverse company. But what is metaverse? It’s a virtual space where billions of users will move, interact, and operate across myriad different but interoperable worlds and situations, always retaining their avatar identities, virtual possessions, and digital currencies. Fortnite, Minecraft and Roblox are examples of early versions of what a metaverse could be. It’s a social world where users can jump between virtual experiences while creating their own experiences inside it.
It will certainly not be an easy goal to achieve, considering its 3 billion users. Today, games such as Fortnite that can host up to 100 players at a time are processing only thousands of operations per second. So just imagine the scale this metaverse would need to have.
