Is the Metaverse actually an online game?

Looking at the current "entrants" of the Metaverse track, game companies are the most popular. But are game companies really the most valuable investment areas in the Metaverse or have the greatest opportunity to win? The "2020-2021 Metaverse Development Research Report" released by the New Media Research Center of Tsinghua University mentioned that the Metaverse is not a video game, nor is it a virtual world, but a massively multiplayer online game + open-ended tasks + editable world + VR entrance + AI content generation + economic system + social system + avatar system + decentralized authentication system + reality elements... Metaverse is virtual world × real world. It should be said that the metaverse is a highly realistic virtual world, not just a "game world".

On the whole, the creator economy represented by design tools and workflows and the spatial computing represented by 3D engines and XR are the "water sellers" of the Metaverse, and are expected to grow into the "golden" that seizes opportunities in the new era of the Metaverse. track". Radoff Radoff, founder of social media company GamerDNA, pointed out in a recent speech that experience, discovery, creator economy, spatial computing, decentralization, human-computer interaction, and infrastructure are the seven elements that make up the metaverse.

It is not difficult to find that the experience and discovery in the "outer layer" is the part that is easiest for users to perceive, but it is also the part that is the most difficult to enter the homes of ordinary people. It is the vision of the metaverse. The middle layer "creator economy" and "spatial computing" are the bridges connecting technology and applications, and they are also the parts that can quickly empower the Metaverse. machine.

If the metaverse is an entirely new "media type," then the long-term trend of growing the creative crowd with the arrival of new media types is unstoppable. In addition, the birth of popular new device platforms and huge advances in computing power will drive the rapid growth of creative software companies in the metaverse era.

This article was originally published on the "" public platform, so stay tuned for more in-depth interpretations of the Metaverse.