The Metaverse is powered by an arrangement of various systems, all giving a different virtual experience with the Metaverse and adding to its expansive interconnected web.
Basis of access starts with entry points into the Metaverse called platforms, these multi-user environments, once accessed, facilitate socializing online with others; they also serve as spaces that you can create, work, or explore in.
Enroll! Here are a bunch of the major Metaverse platforms that are shaping the landscape:
Initially called Facebook then renamed Meta, Facebook has just removed its “workroom” by its new name, calling it Horizon Workrooms which is a project set to be the next big step in virtual reality (VR) for remote collaboration.
Roblox, a system with puzzles, role-playing, action, fighting, battling and games where you can make your own games. It is $6.99 with extra features and gives you admin commands. In Roblox, they have a catalog where it is toys, gear, and hats for your character and you have to buy them with Robux’s.
They even have a friend system where you can chat with your friends and talk to them. It’s also a system where you can find a friend when you and your friend is playing the same game. I am pretty sure some of you Godfathers don’t let your kids play Roblox, but never mind.
Roblox a Lego-like friend of Minecraft very similar but better. So you can try a chick game. You can look this game up and it is exactly like what I said. Roblox like to update games like mines. Say you play a game in Roblox today but tomorrow you buy some gear and now your gear grown to ten.
Decentraland is a virtual world built on the blockchain where people can buy and build on virtual land. In the marketplace you can sell and trade, under the deployment you can use Decentraland, imagine the domain as a map and the estate as a like picture on the map, if you live in Utah on the map and people want to view your house then you would have to sell it to them.
Primarily dubbed a battle royale, Fortnite has developed immensely into the game of all games being played today. Fortnite has become the biggest game of 2019 with an ever changing game mode controversy between em and Ice cream. This game has lots of controversy with the em vs ice cream type of war against each other. This game has a huge battle royale map with over thousands of people playing it per second. That means as soon as you die it fills up right away because there are so many people trying to play at once.
Second Life, a long-lasting virtual world that came out years ahead of the appearance of the term “metaverse”. A program for using virtual reality, where the user can go around with other people in a virtual world that they made or they can go into some other virtual bye real-world.
Spatial.io is a collaboration platform that uses augmented reality as their main focus.
Minecraft; widely acclaimed for its retro, pixelated graphics, often reminds people of the good old days of 8-bit gaming, but it is in fact so much more. Having been developed in 2009, the simple game in which you design environments, now millions of users have created their own realms and continue to do so. Did I forget to mention that it doesn’t operate on just about all platforms: you can play Minecraft on a P.C, a Mac, an Xbox and/or PlayStation, on your smartphone or even on a Raspberry Pi.
So there you go, what more could you want? These platforms, make up only a few of the many different pieces that make up the Metaverse. The Metaverse is a concept that is evolving day by day and many well-known tech titans, from the likes of Zuckerberg to almost every major player in the gaming industry and blockchain are actively contributing in some way or the other to create a more interconnected, immersive, and socially dynamic digital universe which is the core idea of the Metaverse itself.
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