"Metaverse" is an emerging concept that was "exploded" after Facebook founder Zuckerberg said he would change Facebook's company name to Meta. The scientific and technological world is in a sensation because of it, the capital world is "crazy" because of it, and everyone in the literary and art circles may have a lot of expectations after understanding the concept of the metaverse - the world in the novel may be realized.
A sensation from the technology world: Zuckerberg pushed it to the top
In March 2021, the sandbox game company Roblox, known as the "first stock in the Metaverse", went public. The stock price rose 54.4% on the first day, with a market value of more than 40 billion. In July 2021, Facebook founder Zuckerberg, who started out as a social network, stated that he would build Facebook into a "metaverse" company within five years. In October 2021, Facebook changed its name to "Meta", completely pushing the concept of the "Metaverse" to its peak. In November 2021, Microsoft announced at the Ignite conference that it would launch a new Mesh for Microsoft Teams software. After the platform is launched, people in different geographical locations can get a collaborative and enjoyable holographic experience, allowing them to join virtual meetings and send chats. , collaborative processing of shared documents and more.
"Crazy" from the capital world: The sector as a whole has risen significantly, and individual stocks have made obvious profits
——The overall concept sector: trading activities are very active
From Judging from the investment layout of Internet giants, Tencent is prominently included in the list of Roblox investors. In April 2021, Epic Games, an American company in which Tencent has a stake, received US$1 billion in financing with the support of the "Metaverse" concept. In the same month, the "Yuanverse" game development company Code Qiankun also received a strategic investment of 100 million yuan from ByteDance.
Judging from the performance of the secondary market, as of November 19, 2021, the Yuanverse concept sector has included 69 related companies. Among them, the top ten "Yuanverse" companies have experienced an average increase of Higher than 5, the total transaction volume of the "Metaverse" concept sector on November 19 was as high as 51.386 billion yuan, with 3843.47 lots traded. Judging from the transaction volume data, the Metaverse concept sector was very active on November 19.
Judging from the stock price changes, when the Yen Universe concept was born on September 2, 2021, its lowest price was 989.58, and now the stock price has risen to nearly 1,500.
——Typical company stock prices: The average increase in stock prices during the birth period of the Yuanverse concept exceeded 40%
According to the current stock prices and revenue of companies with higher growth among Yuanverse concept stocks, Yuan The benefits brought by the introduction of the universe concept to these five representative companies are very obvious. Since the outbreak of the yen universe concept on September 2, 2021, the lowest increase in the stock prices of the five companies has been more than 15, and the highest increase in the stock prices has been The share prices of ***Da Electronic Sound and Tianxiaxiu rose by more than 66%.
Note: As of the close of trading on November 19, 2021.
Expectations from the literary and art circles: It has been circulating for a long time
At present, no one has a detailed definition of the "Metaverse". According to Wikipedia, the Metaverse (English: Metaverse), It is also called metaverse, metaphysical universe, metaverse, super-sensible space, and virtual space. It is used to describe a future persistent and decentralized online three-dimensional virtual environment. This kind of virtual reality space has been "circulated" in the literary and art circles. Long".
"Metaverse" first appeared in Neil Stephenson's science fiction novel "Snow Crash". In this book, Metaverse is a virtual urban environment that develops along a 100-meter-wide road. Covering the entire 65,536-kilometer circumference of a featureless, black, perfectly spherical planet. Land in this virtual world can be purchased and buildings developed on it. Users of the Metaverse can enter through high-quality personal VR glasses, or through low-quality public VR glasses, and interact with each other or software clients.
Since then, there have been endless literary and artistic creations about the "Metaverse", including the movies "The Matrix" series, "Ready Player One", "Avatar", and the latest serialized American drama "Uploaded to Rebirth" launched in 2020. 》 both show the metaverse of virtual reality on the screen. In the field of literature, there are more imaginations about the metaverse. According to Douban Reading's list, the virtual worlds constructed in literary works such as "Between Us and Not", "Superreality", "Klein Pot", and "Ready Player One" are all related to The concept of the metaverse is similar.
A brief discussion of the Metaverse: Technological innovation is the way to eternal development
The Metaverse world has been around for a long time, but at that time, the Metaverse was more regarded as a part of "science fiction" a way of expression. In literary works, artists use reasonable imagination to construct a transcendent virtual interconnected world in literary works. People enter a certain home or group through a certain device medium (game cabin or virtual reality helmet, etc.) A virtual world built by major manufacturers, in which people’s lives are no different from real life.
With the development of modern science and technology, we seem to be getting closer to the science fiction world constructed in novels. Dazzling innovative technologies such as holographic projection, AR/VR technology innovation, cloud ecological construction, etc. have made the novel The virtual reality world in the world seems to be close at hand, so the proposal of the "metaverse" seems to be logical.
At the same time, there are still many technical difficulties in the construction of the "Metaverse" at this stage, and its future development may also bring about a series of social problems and normative issues at the legal and regulatory level. Judging from the current stage of technological development, we have only solved the part of the media that leads to the metaverse. How to truly build a virtual world is the real difficulty. Therefore, concept hype needs to be cautious. Technological innovation is the eternal key to survival and development. road. Our journey is to the stars and the sea, but the road to the stars and the sea should be based on the present of continuous insistence on technological innovation!
——The above data refers to the "China Virtual Reality (VR) Industry Market Demand" by the Forward-looking Industry Research Institute and Investment Planning Analysis Report