How Can Metaverse Transform The Working Environment?

Envision a future where you never have to leave your house to go to work, where you can have a conversation with your coworkers on the beach, take notes in a meeting while floating through space, or teleport from your London office to your New York office. Do you feel overwhelmed by today’s packed schedule of appointments? Then, to relieve some pressure, why not dispatch your artificial intelligence-enhanced digital double?

These are only a few examples of the kinds of work that "the metaverse," a phrase first used by novelist Neal Stephenson to depict a future world of virtual reality, promises in the not-too-distant future. While difficult to pin down, the metaverse is commonly understood to be a collection of interconnected 3D simulated environments in which individuals can use "avatars" to engage in social, professional, and creative activities. Imagine a modern internet that exists only in virtual reality.

What is Metaverse?

Everything started in October 2021 when Facebook made the startling news that it was changing its name to Meta.

The company also shifted its strategic focus to creating the "metaverse," a collection of shared, virtual spaces where people may connect with one another, in addition to adopting a new brand name. The CEO of Facebook (now Meta), Mark Zuckerberg, characterizes the metaverse as an "embodied internet" where "you're in the experience and not simply looking at it" in his Connect2021 keynote speech video; he considers it to be "the successor to the mobile internet."

Consider video games like Fortnite, Pokémon Go, and SecondLife as current examples of technology