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The Metaverse is an immersive digital space that can be accessed from various devices (smartphones, VR headsets, augmented reality glasses). A year ago, almost no one knew about this term. Today, Mark Zuckerberg is changing the name of Facebook to Meta, BMW is creating an exact copy of its plant in virtual space, and blogger Corrie Strassburger is using Epic Games services and an iPhone 10 camera to generate a digital alter ego to transfer it to the metaverse of the future that is being built.
The organizer of the MIXR metaverse conference and former head of technology evangelism at Microsoft, Andrey Ivashentsev, compares the current state of the metaverse to the Internet in the 80s.
Andrey Ivashentsev
"Today we literally cannot function without the Internet, and its presence is critical for most sectors of the economy. The metaverse should become roughly the same Internet of tomorrow."
It all started when Roblox (a platform for creating virtual spaces that can be visited by avatars) sold 198.9 million common shares in a direct listing in March 2021, forgoing a traditional IPO. Over the past three years, only five major companies have gone public, including Asana and Spotify Technology. During the pandemic in 2020, Roblox's revenue increased by 82% to $923.9 million, thanks to a huge increase in users. So the company didn't want to lose a significant portion of its profits by using underwriters for an IPO.
After that, the number of Google searches for the word metaverse increased a hundredfold, and various developers began discussing moving their businesses into the digital realm.