Metaverse Global Trend

Metaverse combined with games, SNS and other service platforms, is rapidly spreading, Metaverses production, embodiment of the platform of the application field has gone beyond the game field, is expanding to the entire industry, and the evolution platform is also emerging. The ecosystem of developers using Metaverse production platforms is expanding, new platforms supporting Metavalse implementations are emerging, and the pace of market evolution is expected to accelerate.

In particular, global IT companies have announced various technological innovation projects in the field of Metaverse, which foresees the coming of an innovation competition.

First, Facebook shared its new Metavalse vision of innovation, such as AR Glass and cooperation platforms, through its annual event "Facebook Connect." For example, change the name of the existing annual event from Oculus Connect to "Facebook Connect", and change Facebook's AR · VR research team to "Facebook Reality Labs," and the entire company worked on it. Platform innovations such as Infinite Office, a collaboration platform that wears only the Oculus Quest2 and can work in the office without a computer, a virtual life platform Horizon, and an AR filter making platform best suited for mobile devices Spark AR, are accelerating.

In addition, Apple, the strongest IT company, has made continuous investment and prospects in the Metaverse sector, preparing for innovation. From the official investment in Metaverse business in 2017 and the preparation of the launch of AR Glass, CEO Tim Cook has publicly stated: "Metaverse technology will become the Next Big Thing and dominate people's entire lives, and the use of AR technology by businesses and consumers will be routine."

Microsoft also unveiled Mesh, a collaboration platform leading the Metaverse era, in March 2021. Mesh, built on Azure, is a mixed reality (MR) platform where users can feel like they're in the same room, even if they're in different areas. The platform can be used to realize cooperation beyond time and space in fields such as education, design and medical treatment.

The integration development of existing 2D-based MS collaboration platforms and 3D-based Mesh allows us to look forward to the convergence of various industries. The Mesh program, integrated with the likes of MS Teams and MS Dynamics 365, opens up endless possibilities, supports partners' various attempts, and provides a platform for new ecosystems.

At the same time, NVIDIA in hardware released Omniverse, which easily and quickly implements the same virtual world as reality through collaboration, heralding the possibility of using MetaVerse across the industry.

In Omniverse, everyone works together in different venues. That is, someone makes a model, someone paints, someone installs lighting, someone shoots with a camera, and the director watches the process. Now it's a straight line structure where a person finishes his work and moves on to the next job. Omniverse will implement a system where many people are involved in the work at the same time and immediately confirmed.