Original title: "17 Mistakes in the Metaverse"

Original source: "Illustrated Metaverse" and "Design Metaverse" series

There are two extremes in understanding the metaverse.
One extreme is: the metaverse is a product of capital, it is bloody from head to toe, and every pore exudes a bewitching smell, leading mankind to Avici Hell, it does not have any romantic imagination, and it will not create positive things for mankind. value. This point of view is consistent with the trend of "global populism". Everything is a conspiracy of capital, and they are using a new scythe to harvest us. As long as it is related to the metaverse, spray it to death.
The other extreme is: the metaverse is a beautiful destination, a romantic and beautiful utopia. All those who oppose the metaverse are species with low IQs, the old and the young and the braided army, salted fish without imagination, primitive people without the ability to learn new knowledge, praying mantises who resist the trend of technology, and fools without the courage to explore the future . Such people deserve to be exploited and wait to be eliminated. As long as it scolds the metaverse, it will be scoffed at.

01 The metaverse is a game

Many people see the Metaverse as a large 3D virtual game.

They like to equate the "Metaverse" with the movie "Ready Player One".

In addition, most of the companies linked to Metaverse recently are "game companies", so it is easy to connect the two into one.

Metaverse is not a simple game. It involves multiple elements such as web3.0, sovereign wealth, digital identity, NFT, economic system, civilization setting, new productivity and production relations. It is a high-dimensional expansion of natural persons and an integration of various new technologies. A new type of digital civilization that blends virtuality and reality has emerged.

It is not just a game, but a new ecology of human civilization in the future.

02 Metaverse belongs to VR hardware

When talking about the Metaverse, it involves VR hardware.

When it comes to VR hardware, many people think of the Metaverse as a virtual world.

It is undeniable that VR hardware will play an important role in the Metaverse world.

It will make the Metaverse more three-dimensional and exciting.

But there is no direct correspondence between VR and the Metaverse.

There are tens of millions of roads leading to the metaverse, and VR hardware is just a medium, not a core element.

For example, Roblox, currently the most representative company in the metaverse field, is not based on VR, but a platform connector.

Others regard Ethereum as infinitely close to the metaverse, and it is just a smart contract platform.

03 Metaverse belongs to Internet giants

At present, most of the companies entering the Metaverse are Internet giants.

But the core of the metaverse itself is "decentralization". The metaverse controlled by Internet giants is not the metaverse.

No Internet giant can really build a complete metaverse.

The real metaverse ultimately needs to achieve cross-chain interoperability, mutual recognition of identities, and value sharing. It does not belong to any Internet giant, but to everyone.

The wind started at the end of Qingping, and it was not so easy for Yuan Universe to guess the ending.

The formation of a metaverse, maybe a story, a wallet, a plug-in, a set of NFT images, and a contract may become its explosive singularity.

The OpenSea team has only 37 people, and it processes hundreds of millions of dollars in NFT transactions every day.

Loot is just a creative contract released by Dom Hofmann, but it exploded the entire blockchain world.

MetaMask is just a wallet plug-in, with a transaction volume of $23.8 billion and 900,000 users.

And "2140" is just a world framework, and it may also be designed as a future metaverse.

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04 The metaverse is separated from the real world

Metaverse = virtual world, this is the view of most people.

They believe that the metaverse is a virtual existence separated from the real world, like two worlds, unrelated to each other.

But in reality, the Metaverse isn't Ready Player One, or The Matrix.

It is not separated from the real world, but merged.

Online + offline is the future existence mode of the Metaverse.

Offline scenes will become an important part of the metaverse, and the metaverse will also bring the possibility of offline immersive entertainment.

There is a boundary between the metaverse and the real world at the beginning, but the boundary between the two will become more and more blurred, and they will eventually become interdependent.

The metaverse is a symbiosis of reality and reality, not a mirror image twin.

05 Anarchism dominates the metaverse

Many people think that the more developed the metaverse, the top players will control the world through the dark universe.

Top players manipulate issues and even launch financial attacks. Advanced players can lead tens of millions of fans to overwhelm the political economy of small countries.

Players in the metaverse, whether they are mob or dark universe, are cosmopolitan. Transnational behavior disrupts the order of various regions of the world. In the long run, this world will be ruled by the heroes of the virtual metaverse.

But in fact, like the rule of the Internet, the nation-state will still intervene in management and have inseparable power.

06 The metaverse is a "civilization involution"

Many people often borrow Liu Cixin's speech in 2018, saying that the metaverse is "involved in civilization".

But when Liu Cixin gave this speech, the target object was the "virtual world", and there was no concept of metaverse at that time.

The metaverse is the fusion of the virtual world and the real world, and it is also the crystallization of the fusion of various technologies after they have developed to a certain stage.

Space opera and cyberpunk merge, it's not either or either.

The metaverse and the sea of ​​stars are not in a competitive and antagonistic relationship. The former expands inward, while the latter expands outward. In the end, they reach the same goal and develop together.

Better digital virtual technology and more developed space technology actually complement each other.

The metaverse will not bring civilization involution, and it is possible to realize civilization leap.

07 The Metaverse is as beautiful as a paradise

Some people's views: the metaverse is perfect, like a paradise, can realize utopia ideal country.

Indeed, the metaverse is rich in stimulation and extreme experience, and it makes human beings very happy in terms of entertainment.

At the same time, entertainment to death will become more extreme; the degree of immersion in the metaverse is deeper than that of real social games. Over time, the distribution of people who are more rational and people who are more emotional will change from the rule of 28 to 19. law.

The technology of the metaverse will enable sensual hedonism, and the rabble is its ardent fans and admirers.

If humanity cannot be controlled well, then the superficially beautiful Metaverse will eventually bring about a hell.

08 There is no scarcity in the metaverse

Entering the metaverse, does it mean that everything can be copied?

Entering the metaverse, does it mean that scarcity will no longer exist?

This is a misunderstanding of the Metaverse.

In fact, scarcity is a major feature of the metaverse, and even the economic form of the metaverse is born based on "meta-scarcity".

NFT is likely to become the basic unit of the metaverse, and metaverse resources are also scarce.

09 Metaverse is an extension of real social relations

Many people think that the social relations in the metaverse are the same as the real social relations, but a digital environment has been changed.

So the metaverse is nothing special, it is to build a 3D Internet.

In fact, the metaverse is an elevated dimension of human society, and the social form is completely different.

Information is the primary productive force. In the bit universe, information bits replace atoms and constitute the basic elements of all subjects, scenes, game entertainment, and labor creation. The smart contract in the Metaverse is a new type of production relationship.

Productivity: Expressed as a tremendous increase in the amount of information.

Production relationship: It is manifested as the ordering of information structure.

The operation of the entire metaverse shows that the emergence of new information requires new production relations and governance methods, and new production relations continue to stimulate the emergence of new information.

10 Metaverse in China, WEB3.0 in the United States

Some people forcibly split the metaverse from WEB3.0, and distorted it into two symmetrical concepts.

It seems that Americans only talk about WEB3.0, while Chinese people like to talk about Metaverse, so there is a difference between the two.

In fact, the core of WEB3.0 is blockchain technology, which focuses on privacy protection, digital currency, and digital finance, with emphasis on software.

In the Metaverse, software and hardware go hand in hand, and it integrates WEB3.0 into the Metaverse.

Web 3.0 without Crypto is not Web 3.0, and a Metaverse without Web 3.0 is not Metaverse.

WEB3.0 The Chinese have already played in the blockchain world a few days ago, and now China and the United States are two big countries talking about the metaverse.

11 Metaverse Concept Stocks = Metaverse

The "metaverse" in the stock market is not the real metaverse, but a leek dish that is hyped under the name of a concept.

It didn't land, and it didn't touch the core of the Metaverse.

Most of the concept stocks are "pseudo-metaverse", and they care about short-term arbitrage speculation.

A real metaverse project must be doing practical things down-to-earth.

Only by understanding the deep logic of the Metaverse can we avoid those "Ponzi schemes" that are disguised as Metaverse.

In Metaverse 12, Platforms Will Control Everything

Due to the poison of the Internet, many people think that in the metaverse, the platform will further control everything.

The core idea of ​​the metaverse is: decentralization.

The governance method of the Metaverse is: DAO (Distributed Governance).

The Realization Path of the Metaverse: The Open Source Movement.

So in the metaverse, the phenomenon of platform control will be alleviated.

In the metaverse, the division of physical boundaries will be weakened, capital dominance will be weakened, and platform control will also be weakened.

13 The metaverse is a virtual world

The Metaverse isn't just virtual worlds.

Let's take an application scenario as an example:

When you are exercising in the metaverse, you can choose the farm planting scene, and remotely control the agricultural machinery thousands of miles away through the metaverse communication technology\hardware connection\VR wearable. You are exercising in the virtual world, but in fact every drop of your sweat All labor in the real world and get rewarded. In addition to participating in real labor, you can also communicate with the owner of the farm and his children, and become an indispensable member of the farm.

There are many such scenes. You can go to the Lop Nur Desert to plant a tree, or you can go to Mars to mine ore. The real world and the virtual world are interdependent and develop.

In the metaverse world, the duality of reality and virtuality is the unity of opposites.

For humans, the transition from the real world to the virtual world integrates the real and the virtual.

For digital humans, the transition from the virtual world to the real world integrates the virtual and the real.

14. The Metaverse Is Ruled By Programmers

Programmers in the metaverse dominate the underlying logic, but it is still the content creators who actually create the metaverse.

Imagination and creativity are the scarcest assets in the Metaverse.

Developers need to satisfy the community, otherwise content creators can easily fork a new universe.

Multiverse MMI will be implemented in the metaverse.

Relying on the open source approach, everyone can participate in content creation and enjoy the fun of co-creating the Metaverse. Whoever has the idea and high-quality content will be able to build a new platform in the Metaverse.

15 Metaverse will digitize all human beings

The metaverse will allow human beings to move towards digital time and space, so ideally, human beings will also realize digitalization.

But it won't be that simple, because not everyone wants to be a digital human.

In the future Metaverse, there will be two different forces:

Choose Atom Man from the real world;
Choose the bitmen of the digital world.

The Atoms will stick to the real world and refuse to access the metaverse.

Bitmen will maintain the existence of the Metaverse and resist the existence of other alien species.

Don't doubt this possibility, don't you see that there are still people who refuse to embrace the Internet.

Everyone is an individual with free will and will choose a way of life that he wants.

16 Wealth in the metaverse is not legally guaranteed

Many people think that property in the metaverse is not guaranteed by the state without state endorsement.
Quite the contrary, sovereign wealth is more securely protected in the Metaverse.
Mathematics endorsement, private key is everything, what blockchain technology brings is the unique identity carried by digital ID, the safe and stable operation of the economic system, and the beginning of personal data truly belonging to oneself.
In the Metaverse, your property is truly your own, and it is guaranteed mathematically.
Compared with others, mathematics is the most trustworthy and safest.

17 META is a typical sample of the Metaverse

Many ordinary people think that META is a metaverse sample, which is not accurate.
Conversely, the pioneers of the Metaverse feel that Meta is an "anti-Metaverse".

In particular, Blockchain Party Meta scoffed:

Facebook built a digital version of hell.

In their hearts, there is a real metaverse:

That is Ethereum, which has its own system, and this is the "brave new world";

They believe that Ethereum is the real metaverse, and that carries the core spirit of the "metaverse".

In the eyes of the pioneers of encryption, the VR/AR/XR advocated by Meta are just the appearance of the "metaverse", not the essence of the metaverse. No matter how many bells and whistles are connected to the hardware, it is only a layer of armor on people, and there is no way to improve people's spirit.

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The metaverse is in its infancy, and its infrastructure, underlying logic, and values ​​have not yet been fully established.

There are still many fallacies in its cognition.
However, it cannot fall into the following two directions:
One is people who don't like to learn, reject new things, and live in the screw dojo like the old and the young all their lives.

The other is that there is no moral bottom line, no participation in any industry, but boasting.

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