Talk about Metaverse & VTuber/Virtual Idol
One of the hottest topics this year must be the Metaverse. Microsoft spent nearly 70 billion dollars to buy Activision Blizzardaiming to expand the Metaverse ecology. Facebook also changed its name to Meta, betting on the Metaverse, and a series of well-known companies have started to get involved in the metaverse realm, so what is the metaverse? Is the metaverse virtual idol a core development direction?
2021 Shanghai Metaverse Week
The first Shanghai Metaverse Week was a large-scale offline Salon initiated by @NFT4Metaverse (Twitter Acount). It invited a number of industry leaders to exchange and share their experience and insights. Together explore the Virtual World.
Why is the "Metaverse" so popular?
Literally, "Metaverse" is combined from "meta" and "verse". The concept is derived from Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash. Meta means "meta" and "transcendence"; Verse refers to "universe", and the combination "Metaverse" refers to "a virtual world parallel to the real world" which is supported by AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality) technologies.