{"id":9302,"date":"2021-12-29T21:46:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T12:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stechstar.com\/user\/wordpress\/?p=9302"},"modified":"2021-12-29T21:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T12:47:53","slug":"%e4%b8%80%e6%97%a530%e5%88%86-%ec%9d%b8%ec%83%9d%ec%8a%b9%eb%a6%ac%ec%9d%98-%ed%95%99%ec%8a%b5%eb%b2%95%eb%a9%94%ed%83%80%eb%b2%84%ec%8a%a4%eb%9e%80-%eb%ac%b4%ec%97%87%ec%9d%b8%ea%b0%80-the-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stechstar.com\/user\/wordpress\/%e4%b8%80%e6%97%a530%e5%88%86-%ec%9d%b8%ec%83%9d%ec%8a%b9%eb%a6%ac%ec%9d%98-%ed%95%99%ec%8a%b5%eb%b2%95%eb%a9%94%ed%83%80%eb%b2%84%ec%8a%a4%eb%9e%80-%eb%ac%b4%ec%97%87%ec%9d%b8%ea%b0%80-the-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"[ \u4e00\u65e530\u5206 \uc778\uc0dd\uc2b9\ub9ac\uc758 \ud559\uc2b5\ubc95][\uba54\ud0c0\ubc84\uc2a4\ub780 \ubb34\uc5c7\uc778\uac00?] The Metaverse Has Already Arrived. Here\u2019s What That Actually Means"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>[ \u4e00\u65e530\u5206 \uc778\uc0dd\uc2b9\ub9ac\uc758 \ud559\uc2b5\ubc95][\uba54\ud0c0\ubc84\uc2a4\ub780 \ubb34\uc5c7\uc778\uac00?] The Metaverse Has Already Arrived. Here\u2019s What That Actually Means<\/h1>\n<div class=\"headline-and-lead-media\">\n<div class=\"article-header text-align-center padding-24-bottom \">\n<div class=\"intro article-info\">\n<h1 class=\"headline heading-content margin-8-top\">The Metaverse Has Already Arrived. Here\u2019s What That Actually Means<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-column-container\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"partial lead-video\">\n<div class=\"component video-jw lead-media\" data-autostart=\"viewable\" data-description=\"Steve Aoki on the potential of cryptocurrency. Interviewed by Andrew Chow, TIME Staff Writer.\" data-media-id=\"FUucllsh\" data-player-id=\"1BWlFwPe\" data-playlist-id=\"\" data-title=\"Steve Aoki | The Future of Innovation\">\n<div class=\"partial aspect-ratio-box\">\n<div id=\"jw-1BWlFwPe-68dc6f95-950b-43b8-8cba-8742f1d5572e\" class=\"jwplayer jw-reset jw-state-playing jw-stretch-uniform jw-flag-aspect-mode jw-breakpoint-5 jw-floating-dismissible jw-flag-user-inactive jw-flag-autostart\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"application\" aria-describedby=\"jw-shortcuts-tooltip-explanation\" aria-label=\"Video Player\">\n<div class=\"afs_ads ad-placement\">BY <a class=\"bold author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/author\/peter-allen-clark\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/author\/peter-allen-clark\/\">PETER ALLEN CLARK&nbsp;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author scale-12 padded margin-24-tb clearfix\">\n<div class=\"author-text\" data-tracking-zone=\"author\">\n<div class=\"timestamp published-date padding-12-left\">NOVEMBER 15, 2021 12:00 PM EST<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\" class=\"article content body clearfix\" data-tracking-zone=\"body\">\n<div class=\"padded\">\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\" role=\"presentation\">W<\/span>hen Cathy Hackl\u2019s son wanted to throw a party for his 9th birthday, he didn\u2019t ask for favors for his friends or themed decorations. Instead, he asked if they could hold the celebration on&nbsp;<i>Roblox.&nbsp;<\/i>On the digital platform, which allows users to play and create a multitude of games, Hackl\u2019s son and his friends would attend the party as their virtual avatars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey hung out and played and they went to other different games together,\u201d she says. \u201cJust because it happens in a virtual space doesn\u2019t make it less real. It\u2019s very real to my son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The futility of throwing an outdoor pandemic-friendly event in January wasn\u2019t the only reason Hackl\u2019s son lobbied for a digital event.&nbsp;<i>Roblox&nbsp;<\/i>might be unknown to many over the age of, say, 25, but the 13-year-old platform is booming. Available on most desktop and mobile platforms, it is simultaneously a venue for free games, a creation engine that allows users to generate new activities of their own, and a marketplace to sell those experiences, as well as side products like outfits for a personalized avatar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cnx-top-title-logo cnx-top-title-logo-portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stechstar.com\/user\/zbxe\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/950aa62c03695f38b1d1e5d77fb7ed27.png\" alt=\"\" data-autoattach=\"success\" data-cke-saved-src=\".\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/950aa62c03695f38b1d1e5d77fb7ed27.png\">Most Recent<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stechstar.com\/user\/zbxe\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/25222b864085bed1a9010a9ced0e6566.jpg\" alt=\"China Calls on U.S. to Protect Its Space Station After Near-Collision With SpaceX Satellites\" data-autoattach=\"success\" data-cke-saved-src=\".\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/25222b864085bed1a9010a9ced0e6566.jpg\"><a class=\"cnx-ui-ps-cta cnx-cta-align-with-content\" title=\"China Calls on U.S. to Protect Its Space Station After Near-Collision With SpaceX Satellites\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6132012\/china-spacex-satellites\/?traffic_source=Connatix\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6132012\/china-spacex-satellites\/?traffic_source=Connatix\">READ MORE<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stechstar.com\/user\/zbxe\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/6a4612bd013095785532b0ee91537ae6.jpg\" alt=\"A Fugitive Evaded Police for 3 Years, But He Couldn\u2019t Evade China\u2019s COVID-19 Tracking Rules\" data-autoattach=\"success\" data-cke-saved-src=\".\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/6a4612bd013095785532b0ee91537ae6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stechstar.com\/user\/zbxe\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/373ad9bd4344e666fbb41a0fec63485e.jpg\" alt=\"How John Madden Became the Most Influential Person in NFL History\" data-autoattach=\"success\" data-cke-saved-src=\".\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/373ad9bd4344e666fbb41a0fec63485e.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stechstar.com\/user\/zbxe\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/933fdf0f1f0f4a6bb1219e8c9101efbf.jpg\" alt=\"The Great Barrier Reef Is Being Depleted by Pollution and Climate Change. 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She reoriented her media career toward cinematic virtual reality work and then moved onto work with headset manufacturers, eventually serving as a \u201cVR evangelist\u201d for the HTC Vive headset. Today she says she\u2019s known as the \u201cgodmother of the metaverse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For many younger people, like her son, such a pivot isn\u2019t even necessary: they\u2019re growing up with the expectation that a large part of their future will exist in the metaverse. It might be time for the rest of us to get on board\u2014whether we like it or not.<\/p>\n<h2>Metawhat?<\/h2>\n<p>The word \u201cmetaverse\u201d is often traced to Neal Stephenson\u2019s 1992 dystopic, cyberpunk novel&nbsp;<i>Snow Crash<\/i>, and many see a more recent inspiration in the dazzling warren of experiences at the heart of Earnest Cline\u2019s 2011 novel&nbsp;<i>Ready Player One<\/i>. However, the metaverse is far from the stuff of sci-fi. It\u2019s not even new.<\/p>\n<p>Online communities have existed since at least the mid-1980s, and grew in the 1990s with chatrooms, AOL instant messenger and the first social media sites. The game&nbsp;<i>World of Warcraft<\/i>&nbsp;became a persistent social scene for millions in the early 2000s, and communities have continued to sprout up within and around games. Today, logging onto&nbsp;<i>Fortnite<\/i>, joining a chat with friends over a console platform and launching into a game with them is, especially to younger generations, just as social an experience as most other physical interactions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ad-728x90_300x250_LL_td_2\" class=\"ad ad-container ad-wrapper type-728x90;300x250 instream-ad type-728-flex tablet-ad desktop-ad x2 tgx-processed\" role=\"complementary\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-dimensions=\"728x90;300x250\" data-tgxlazy=\"200\" data-tgxposition=\"4\" data-tgxtargeting=\"%7B%7D\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Whether in virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) or simply on a screen, the promise of the metaverse is to allow a greater overlap of our digital and physical lives in wealth, socialization, productivity, shopping and entertainment. These two worlds are already interwoven, no headset required: Think about the Uber app telling you via location data how far away the car is. Think about how Netflix gauges what you\u2019ve watched before to make suggestions. Think about how the LiDAR scanner on newer iPhones can take a 3D scan of your surroundings. At its core, the metaverse (also known to many as \u201cweb3\u201d) is an evolution of our current Internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got your goggles on, 10 years from now, but they\u2019re just a pair of sunglasses that happens to have the ability to bring you into the metaverse experience,\u201d says John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, maker of a video game engine that is increasingly used to develop immersive experiences on other platforms. \u201cYou\u2019re walking by a restaurant, you look at it, the menu pops up. What your friends have said about it pops up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more:&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6113028\/how-we-chose-best-inventions-2021\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6113028\/how-we-chose-best-inventions-2021\/\"><em>The 100 Best Inventions of 2021<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Riccitiello, the most exciting part of the metaverse is what it might mean for our relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that we might be able to \u201cfeel like we\u2019re together when we\u2019re not,\u201d he argues, could likely lead someone to create a company on par with Facebook and Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Banks and investors are taking note.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s clearly a kind of a desire to move that direction,\u201d says John Egan, CEO of L\u2019Atelier BNP Paribas and an investment analyst focusing on emerging technologies. \u201cThis metaverse concept gives us the opportunity to create any universe that we\u2019ve ever imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>More than a social network<\/h2>\n<p>Hackl\u2019s son wasn\u2019t alone in having&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4IxHX930fMk&amp;ab_channel=MirraTheMermaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4IxHX930fMk&amp;ab_channel=MirraTheMermaid\">a birthday party on&nbsp;<i>Roblox<\/i><\/a>&nbsp;over the past year; the 16-year-old creator of the&nbsp;<i>Roblox<\/i>&nbsp;game&nbsp;<i>Math Obby<\/i>, who goes by the username 0bid0, threw himself a party to which he invited not just friends from school and Twitter, but also fans of the game. \u201cI couldn\u2019t manage to make plans in real life because of the pandemic, so I took the chance of building a cool place to host the virtual event,\u201d he tells TIME.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ad-728x90_300x250_LL_td_3\" class=\"ad ad-container ad-wrapper type-728x90;300x250 instream-ad type-728-flex tablet-ad desktop-ad x2 tgx-processed\" role=\"complementary\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-dimensions=\"728x90;300x250\" data-tgxlazy=\"200\" data-tgxposition=\"6\" data-tgxtargeting=\"%7B%7D\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Kids are not the only ones wading out into the metaverse breakers. Paul Tomlinson, 41, has worked remotely for years, living in rural Maine with his family and managing tax and financial-processing software for a firm that works with municipal and state governments. There\u2019s \u201cnothing sexy\u201d about the job, he says, but it does involve needing to have eyes on a large amount of data at once. A few years ago, this meant his desk had four different computer monitors on it. The cumbersome office setup was already a difficult and messy solution, but add in a disruptive (but adorable) cat and it became untenable.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more:&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5955412\/artificial-intelligence-nvidia-jensen-huang\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5955412\/artificial-intelligence-nvidia-jensen-huang\/\"><em>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the Fusion of Virtual and Physical Worlds<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomlinson had always been interested in virtual reality, but it wasn\u2019t until he tried the Oculus Quest headset and was introduced to a productivity app called Immersed that he found the answers to his work conundrum. Immersed pairs with your computer and, in the headset, sets up a workspace that allows for multiple virtual screens that you can arrange or size in whatever way you choose. And, crucially for Tomlinson, it\u2019s very difficult for cats to mess with virtual desktops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin a week, I took the monitors off of my desk,\u201d he says. \u201cIt just made my life so much better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more than two years now, he has almost exclusively used virtual reality for his 40- to 50-hour work weeks: \u201cUnless it\u2019s a business-critical meeting, I typically don\u2019t take off the headset.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"component inline image margin-32-tb\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"component lazy-image no-upscale rendered image-loaded\" data-alt=\"\" data-crop=\"\" data-height=\"560\" data-shop-image=\"false\" data-src=\"https:\/\/api.time.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/metaverse-101-03.jpg\" data-title=\"\" data-width=\"800\">\n<div class=\"inner-container js-inner-container \"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stechstar.com\/user\/zbxe\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/6c3418973c7474395748db7a44093570.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-autoattach=\"success\" data-cke-saved-src=\".\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/6c3418973c7474395748db7a44093570.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-wrap-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"credit body-caption padding-8-top\">Inside Paul Tomlinson&#8217;s virtual work station<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit body-credit padding-8-top padding-8-bottom\">Paul Tomlinson<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"component inline image margin-32-tb\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"component lazy-image no-upscale rendered image-loaded\" data-alt=\"\" data-crop=\"\" data-height=\"420\" data-shop-image=\"false\" data-src=\"https:\/\/api.time.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/metaverse-101-04.jpg\" data-title=\"\" data-width=\"800\">\n<div class=\"inner-container js-inner-container \"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stechstar.com\/user\/zbxe\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/c204ae165c3efca04ae68486dec96a49.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-autoattach=\"success\" data-cke-saved-src=\".\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/c204ae165c3efca04ae68486dec96a49.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-wrap-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"credit body-caption padding-8-top\">What Paul Tomlinson&#8217;s office setup looks like in the physical world<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit body-credit padding-8-top padding-8-bottom\">Paul Tomlinson<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Immersed VR has already netted millions in investment dollars and partnered with Facebook, Microsoft and Samsung in various roles. And for companies developing headsets, the COVID-19 work shake up provides an opportunity to do just as Renji Bijoy, Immersed VR\u2019s founder and CEO suggests, making the case that VR is less of a novelty and more of a quality-of-life tool.<\/p>\n<p>Few companies want that narrative shift more than Facebook, now Meta. Dodging damaging leaks, deflecting international calls for antitrust action and shrugging off its own stalled attempts to launch a decentralized digital currency, the social network, which owns the VR brand Oculus, has leaned far into the future that it promises to provide. Late in the summer,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6091395\/facebook-workrooms-vr-metaverse\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6091395\/facebook-workrooms-vr-metaverse\/\">Facebook announced Horizons Workrooms<\/a>&nbsp;(through the use of its Oculus Quest) as an alternative to the Zoom meetings that have become commonplace to many remote workers. (Facebook declined multiple requests to provide comment on this story.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"ad-728x90_300x250_LL_td_4\" class=\"ad ad-container ad-wrapper type-728x90;300x250 instream-ad type-728-flex tablet-ad desktop-ad x2 tgx-processed\" role=\"complementary\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-dimensions=\"728x90;300x250\" data-tgxlazy=\"200\" data-tgxposition=\"7\" data-tgxtargeting=\"%7B%7D\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><em>Read more:&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6111389\/facebook-new-name-meta\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6111389\/facebook-new-name-meta\/\"><em>Here\u2019s What Meta\u2014Facebook\u2019s New Parent Company\u2014Plans to Do<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For now, spending any part of a workday in the metaverse still seems like a far-off dream for most of the global workforce. Tomlinson recognizes this. His coworkers took a while to adjust to the fact that he usually appears in group video meetings as an avatar, and his family is \u201cnot as enamored\u201d as he is. Still, he sees himself as a \u201cpioneer,\u201d of the future, and is comfortable in that role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am an outlier, and it\u2019s a good thing that we have outliers who don\u2019t get bored easily,\u201d he says. \u201cI have no hang ups about strapping boxes to my face for eight hours a day. I can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Real money in the metaverse<\/h2>\n<p>A new kind of working from home is only part of what the metaverse can provide those out to make a buck. Case in point: metaverse entrepreneur Carrie Tatsu, 48. She has spent over 15 years making her living designing, marketing and selling avatars, pets and accessories for citizens of&nbsp;<i>Second Life<\/i>, a game that launched in 2003 as a blank-slate digital world where users could buy land and spend actual money on in-world customizable clothing. (If you think that sounds a great deal like the metaverse currently being touted by big tech, you would be correct.) Tatsu joined in a moment of dissatisfaction with her marketing job. Because she likes cats, she bought a pet for her avatar. The decision launched her career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought, well, you know, I think I can make a better cat,\u201d Tatsu says.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long before she and her ex-husband set up a store, Zooby, and earned enough for her to quit her physical-world job to focus on creating&nbsp;<i>Second Life<\/i>&nbsp;pets and accessories full time. She quickly noticed the way other players were forging real connections to those virtual animals. \u201cThere was a paradigm shift in the way I looked at this,\u201d she says. \u201cThis wasn\u2019t like joining a video game and competing on something like a first-person shooter. This was a very emotional attachment to something that wasn\u2019t physical.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"ad-728x90_300x250_LL_td_5\" class=\"ad ad-container ad-wrapper type-728x90;300x250 instream-ad type-728-flex tablet-ad desktop-ad x2 tgx-processed\" role=\"complementary\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-dimensions=\"728x90;300x250\" data-tgxlazy=\"200\" data-tgxposition=\"8\" data-tgxtargeting=\"%7B%7D\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"component inline image margin-32-tb\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"component lazy-image no-upscale rendered image-loaded\" data-alt=\"\" data-crop=\"\" data-height=\"560\" data-shop-image=\"false\" data-src=\"https:\/\/api.time.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/metaverse-101-02.jpeg\" data-title=\"\" data-width=\"800\">\n<div class=\"inner-container js-inner-container \"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stechstar.com\/user\/zbxe\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/23b8ee0e45f53515cec8d7f6d409f157.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-autoattach=\"success\" data-cke-saved-src=\".\/files\/attach\/images\/119\/612\/084\/23b8ee0e45f53515cec8d7f6d409f157.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-wrap-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"credit body-caption padding-8-top\">A Zooby Second Life avatar<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit body-credit padding-8-top padding-8-bottom\">Courtesy Carrie Tatsu<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With&nbsp;<i>Roblox<\/i>, that kind of hustle has always been part of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can imagine a future where I can go to the [virtual] hat store, and I have a very seamless experience to customize my hat I created, and now I can potentially then sell that hat to other people in the metaverse,\u201d&nbsp;<i>Roblox&nbsp;<\/i>Chief Product Officer Manuel Bronstein says. \u201cWe made it very easy for people to start monetizing those creations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of those who are taking advantage of that potential are young users. Josh Okunola, for example, is a 17-year-old digital artist from Nigeria, currently studying in London, who has been playing&nbsp;<i>Roblox<\/i>&nbsp;since 2014. After a few years of exploring, he grew curious about the games\u2019 development tools and using his own artistic talent on the platform. In 2018, he netted his first&nbsp;<i>Roblox<\/i>&nbsp;paycheck\u2014for $7\u2014though he says his parents didn\u2019t believe it was real because, unable to withdraw it from PayPal, he could only spend it on digital goods.<\/p>\n<p>With blockchain-based games, players can turn the time they spend into cryptocurrency. In the popular&nbsp;<i>Axie<\/i>&nbsp;<i>Infinity<\/i>, players buy, train and breed Pokemon-like creatures that are themselves NFTs, each one individually registered on the Ethereum blockchain. An active marketplace allows players to sell the creatures for cryptocurrency.&nbsp;<i>Axie Infinity<\/i>&nbsp;has seen a lot of international popularity during the pandemic; the Philippines has particularly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yo-BrASMHU4&amp;ab_channel=PLAY-TO-EARN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yo-BrASMHU4&amp;ab_channel=PLAY-TO-EARN\">seen a great deal of growth<\/a>, with players of all ages&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-08-25\/axie-infinity-how-game-is-turning-pandemic-jobless-into-crypto-nft-traders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-08-25\/axie-infinity-how-game-is-turning-pandemic-jobless-into-crypto-nft-traders\">using the game to earn money<\/a>. You need to own three of these \u201cAxies\u201d before you can even play the game, and currently the lowest priced creatures on the marketplace are over $100.<\/p>\n<p>These purely digital opportunities to make a living are inspiring a young generation to believe that the metaverse is the place to make their fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually I was able to cash out $1,000 from the platform,\u201d Okunola says of his&nbsp;<i>Roblox<\/i>&nbsp;art. \u201cMy parents were [in] shock because it was very rare to see a 16-year-old make that much in just a little time from a side hobby.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Reality Check<\/h2>\n<p>If there were ever any hope of weaning children off screen time, it was dashed by the pandemic.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dak.de\/dak\/gesundheit\/dak-studie-gaming-social-media-und-corona-2295548.html#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.dak.de\/dak\/gesundheit\/dak-studie-gaming-social-media-und-corona-2295548.html#\/\">One German study<\/a>&nbsp;published by DAK-Gesundheit found that usage of social media and video games was up by at least 60% in 2020 over 2019 among children between 12 and 17. Now imagine not just a screen, but a world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ad-728x90_300x250_LL_td_6\" class=\"ad ad-container ad-wrapper type-728x90;300x250 instream-ad type-728-flex tablet-ad desktop-ad x2 tgx-processed\" role=\"complementary\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-dimensions=\"728x90;300x250\" data-tgxlazy=\"200\" data-tgxposition=\"9\" data-tgxtargeting=\"%7B%7D\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Tatsu is the mother of two children and, despite having created a successful career in digital spaces, she insists that her children spend as much of their time as possible in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so important for humans to be with humans in real life,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd so I think that as kids grow up in this space, there will have to be outlets for people to engage, go smell a flower here, walk in on a trail, have a real conversation with your friend and throw a ball. I mean, even though you can simulate that, the simulation is not the same. And so I feel in some ways bad for my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We all have far more to worry about in digital spaces than just time spent. The very probable idea that this is the direction technological innovation is heading does little to take into account whether it&nbsp;<i>should<\/i>&nbsp;be the direction we are heading.<\/p>\n<p>If the metaverse is essentially an extension of the internet we currently have, one only has to think about the myriad problems that we have yet to solve in our online existence\u2014hacking, catfishing, harassment, hate speech\u2014to see how truly perilous a future on the metaverse could be.<\/p>\n<p>The consulting firm GlobalData notes concerns in how governments,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5757811\/cybersecurity-attacks-agency\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5757811\/cybersecurity-attacks-agency\/\">notably the U.S.<\/a>, have been sluggish in their approach to cybersecurity concerns such as the rise of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5362183\/the-real-fake-news-crisis\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5362183\/the-real-fake-news-crisis\/\">artificial-intelligence enabled misinformation<\/a>, including videos known as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeforkids.com\/g56\/fakeout-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.timeforkids.com\/g56\/fakeout-2\/\">deepfakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more:&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6099169\/tim-cook-apple-privacy\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6099169\/tim-cook-apple-privacy\/\"><em>Tim Cook on the \u2018Basic Human Right\u2019 of Privacy and the Technology That Excites Him the Most<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese false images\u2014again, going back to deepfakes\u2014not only are used to trick users into giving away personal details, but also from a political perspective to convince them of something happening that has not happened or is just simply not true,\u201d Charlotte Newton, a thematic analyst at GlobalData, says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to recognize that there are five really important problems we haven\u2019t yet solved in the mobile internet: data rights, data security, radicalization, misinformation and platform power,\u201d says Matthew Ball, author of the forthcoming&nbsp;<i>The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything<\/i>. \u201cIf the fundamental premise of the metaverse is that we will spend more of our time, labor, leisure, wealth, existence inside virtual worlds, then by definition, every one of those five problems is exacerbated. The amount of data captured and the importance of that data goes up, or the risks of data loss are intensified.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"ad-728x90_300x250_LL_td_7\" class=\"ad ad-container ad-wrapper type-728x90;300x250 instream-ad type-728-flex tablet-ad desktop-ad x2 tgx-processed\" role=\"complementary\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-dimensions=\"728x90;300x250\" data-tgxlazy=\"200\" data-tgxposition=\"10\" data-tgxtargeting=\"%7B%7D\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><em>Read more:&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6110234\/facebook-papers-testimony-explained\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6110234\/facebook-papers-testimony-explained\/\"><em>The 5 Most Important Revelations From the \u2018Facebook Papers\u2019<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s perhaps a reason many fictional touchstones for a metaverse, including&nbsp;<i>Ready Player One<\/i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>Snow Crash<\/i>, take place in grim dystopias.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way the metaverse is going to help with things like income inequality, or food deserts, people who cannot buy groceries, disparities and access to health care,\u201d says science fiction writer Ted Chiang, on whose work the 2016 movie&nbsp;<i>Arrival<\/i>&nbsp;was based. \u201cNone of those things are things that you can deliver through the metaverse.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Vision<\/h2>\n<p>True adherents would beg to differ. They believe that the metaverse has benefits for all, that it can expand access, opportunity, social networks and mental health\u2014though even they have to admit that a lot of the good the metaverse can do is still speculative, and depends on a confluence of events, from hardware deployment to data infrastructure developments, on very fuzzy timelines.<\/p>\n<p>What does exist for sure, argue proponents like Tatsu, is the already realized potential for the metaverse to increase empathy and inspire kindness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that when you\u2019re in a virtual space, they\u2019re usually smaller, they\u2019re usually more intimate. And I think that when we move into this world, where you really customize your avatar, you develop a more intimate relationship with the people you have online,\u201d she says. \u201cEven though you\u2019re behind a screen or you\u2019re behind a headset, you still see somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, a surreal YouTube video made its way around the internet. In the middle of a standard&nbsp;<i>VRChat<\/i>&nbsp;session, which is itself a mosh pit of clashing avatars and frenetic voice chat, a user who was wearing a full body tracking suit apparently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/vr-chat-multiplayer-seizure-video-epilepsy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/vr-chat-multiplayer-seizure-video-epilepsy\">had a seizure<\/a>. The episode underscored not only the actual distance between people in virtual spaces, but also the outpouring of concern for the person behind a red robot avatar.<\/p>\n<p>Hackl sees the upcoming shift in technologies as a chance to shape a more inclusive mission and purpose. \u201cI feel we\u2019re working on the printing press of the future,\u201d she says, \u201dbeing able to preserve, let\u2019s say, a language that is soon to disappear. If you\u2019re able to retain not only in a flat video, you\u2019ll see the sound and you\u2019ll see the movement of lips and stuff. In a 3D performance capture and an actual 3D video, you\u2019ll be able to see a lot of the nuances of how the tongue moves, and the teeth move, and you\u2019ll be able to preserve the same dances as well as artifacts, stories, all sorts of things. I believe that that is something we\u2019re working on today to preserve those stories for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"ad-728x90_300x250_LL_td_8\" class=\"ad ad-container ad-wrapper type-728x90;300x250 instream-ad type-728-flex tablet-ad desktop-ad x2 tgx-processed\" role=\"complementary\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-dimensions=\"728x90;300x250\" data-tgxlazy=\"200\" data-tgxposition=\"11\" data-tgxtargeting=\"%7B%7D\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>To her, that future will be a better one, thanks in part to the metaverse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I look at the architects of the internet, they were all men,\u201d Hackl says. \u201cBeing a Latina woman that is very publicly out there, I want more people like me. We need to see people like me, in these public facing roles, because you can inspire a lot more people to join and say, \u2018Hey, I am welcome in this metaverse world. 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Here\u2019s What That Actually Means The Metaverse Has Already Arrived. 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