Live [warning] crazy yuan the universe | yuan is really the next generation of the Internet?

In contrast to the already lackluster Tech Gala, apple's recent focus in the tech world has certainly come not from the iPhone 13, but from its dispute with Epic, the top gaming and unreal engine maker.

As the most valuable tech giant on the planet, Apple has a huge say in its ecosystem. All apps placed on the App Store pay a 30 percent Apple tax, which is the "in-app payment" revenue, and Apple takes a 30 percent "toll." This is where the dispute comes from. Epic is challenging the 30 percent apple tax.

Interestingly, the word "Metaverse" appeared 23 times as both sides argued for themselves, arguing whether Epic's classic Fortnite was a game or a "Metaverse."

Metaverse, a 29-year-old concept from a novel called Avalanche, took the world by storm in 2021.

The first year of the meta-universe

This is a story about Second Life. In most views, the metasomes are virtual worlds in which people live socially through another digital identity, and where it may be easy to do things they can't do in real life.

The story of the virtual world seems to be in the right place at the right time, with the improvement of 5G and semiconductor facilities, the popularity of e-commerce and gaming, the emergence of the global epidemic, the accelerating demand for online life, the rise of YOLO culture in the age of Z, and so on. Imagine a virtual world in which you, the core member of your team, have just attended a football game. You see a restaurant on the street that you like. You order your food and the delivery man knocks on your door for half an hour.

In Second Life, the capital markets got their senses first.

After Tencent and Facebook, two of the world's largest social giants, began to pay attention to VR, "meta-universe" has become the hottest investment direction in the primary market at the beginning of this year, those top capital, including Sequoia Capital, Hillhouse Capital, basically entered the game.

Roblox, which is said to be played by 75 percent of elementary school students in the U.S., rose 54 percent on its first day on nasdaq, heralding the introduction of the concept of the metasomes. In April, MetaApp completed the C round financing of usd 100 million, ranking the first in domestic metacosmic track financing amount.

More recently, Bytedance has boosted sentiment. A few days ago, the market was abuzz with news that the giant, valued at hundreds of billions of dollars, would acquire VR, signaling bytedance's entry into the metaverse.

New giant approach directly guided the capital sentiment of the secondary market. In recent days, the concept of "meta-universe" shares in the A-share heat unprecedented, announced the launch of the first domestic meta-universe listed company to become the plate leading rise and fall news, in the financial media full screen push.

The blockchain industry is also taking advantage of the metasomes momentum to find new funding directions. Virtual assets are a necessary element of the metasemes, and the concept of NFT has completely spread. From IP assets to crypto art, emotions erupt in NFT avatars. NBA superstar Stephen Curry, who is almost a household name, bought a monkey for $180,000 to make his head. Because NFT has the concept of "ownership", even if the image is replicable, ideally only one person in the library has the right to use the image of the monkey. In the metasverse, seeing the image of the monkey is known as the asset of the library.

The question of the meta-universe

Of course, it can't all be rosy, and there will be doubts in any hot air.

"As the Internet falters at a new crossroads, people turn to a 29-year-old science fiction book, point to a word called the metasomes and say, this is the next generation of the Internet." "Wrote a partner at a top fund.

The metasomes are so big that the book Metasomes Tokens describes six technologies that underlie the metasomes: interaction, video games, AI, network computing, the Internet of Things, and blockchain. None of these technologies seems to fit perfectly into the metasomes.  

In order to give you a more comprehensive and objective understanding of the meta-universe and the imaginative space of this latest trend, Tencent Technology and BlockBeats jointly launched the "Crazy Meta-universe" column. In this column, you can understand the interpretation and thinking of professionals on the concept of the metasomes, the companies of the metasomes, and the development and obstacles of the metasomes.

From 19:00 to 20:00 on September 17, "Crazy Meta-universe" will officially launch the first column, the theme is "meta-universe erupts again, concept plate of secondary market is hot, why do we need meta-universe? , invited Yi Huanhuan, chairman of The World Trading Company and author of the meta-universe series, and Qin Jianxin, co-founder of Cryptoart. Ai, as guests, hosted by Zhang Shuhao, executive editor of BlockBeats.

"Why is the meta-universe tied to a game?" "And" Is the meta-universe the next generation of the Internet?" "And" What kind of companies will be born in the metasverse?" And so on everyone's concerns, in the "crazy meta-universe" in the first column will be answered.

The "Crazy Meta Universe" jointly held by Tencent Technology and BlockBeats is not a summary of the meta universe, but the beginning of the meta universe. This may be a market with a scale of thousands of trillion DOLLARS. Maybe the scene of Ready Player One will be seen in a few years.

Well, September 17th is your first day of learning about the metasverse.

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