Opening the Metaverse: Are We There Yet?

The past two years has experienced a certain buzzword by those in the blockchain ecosystem, and that word is, The Open Metaverse or Metaverse for short. Those of us who have heard of its tempting promises and imagery as a paradise of virtual experiences that transcends the three dimensional quantities of distance, time and space have since now asked of this pilgrimage: Are We There Yet?  And if you are still approaching the light of what the metaverse is, yes, I'll gladly take you on  a detour to the genesis: What is the Metaverse?

The Open Metaverse: A Creator's Perspective

Imagine a world where all the likes and comments you get on Instagram, Facebook etc become experiences and not just that but having every post you make patented as a token. In other words, you get paid royalties for how your content is used. These are just a sneak peek into what the metaverse is. In vivid terms according to Tech Target it is, "a single, shared, immersive, persistent, 3D virtual space where humans experience life in ways they could not in the physical world".  It is also called the next evolution of the internet  which is why it's also linked with the name - Web 3. I dare say, it is the front-end of how we'll start engaging with the web. Yet and again it pops up: Are We There Yet?

Are We There Yet?
Devs and Creators alike look forward to when every post you make whether graphic or written become utility tokens or NFTs which you own through identities (i.e wallets) which you have created. But, are we there yet?

Without much ado, I would say that the road to the metaverse is a journey and not a destination. At the moment, we are at its first milestone which is Investing and Building Infrastructure. This accounts for why investors currently scamper for land in the 1x1 cells of 16x16 meters Decentraland at a high price.

However, virtual worlds like Decentraland on the Metaverse presents itself as the most decentralised among others such as Sandbox, Somnium Space or even Spatial. For instance Decentraland offers the opportunity for presenting your company to the public, having shopping malls, restaurants and several socializing spaces. A few weeks ago when EkoLance had its first metaverse meet up we had the opportunity to take selfies there. For the younger ones Sandbox offers the right environment to create buy lands and create quests for people to play. It's a world Minecraft lovers would love immensely. For Sandbox, you don't have to be a developer to use it.

At its zenith the metaverse will move on to the next milestones of Developing and Aggregating Dapps and finally, Onboarding Communities.

Conclusion

Dear reader, we metaversians hold firmly to the dream of where we can train an avatar guided by artificial intelligence (AI) which can which can be a creative output of ourselves producing several content across several virtual worlds while we build the base infrastructure layer of our freedom, our decentralization - The Metaverse.