Both avatars and houses can be customized.
Theywill impersonate themselves with an avatar and have a house that represents theirsocial profile.
Players willbe able to connect each other, play and socialize into a semi-procedural world. Indeed, Facebook plans to mix it with theirproprietary Oculus VR headsets.Coming back to this work, it investigates the research and the subsequent creationof an MMORPG game prototype that has the purpose to replicate the most famoussocial media platforms but converted in a 3D and playful counterpart. Big social-platform companiesas Facebook saw its potential too. Peoplebegan to use it, not anymore only for gaming and networking, but also for co-working.A few years later this idea continues to move forward. But during the lockdown something interesting happens. These games let players also create new worlds and experiences to sharewith their friends. Many video games based onthat concept already existed before and were strongly populated by the youngestgenerations. But this kind of applications is not new. So, different companiesstarted to exploit the idea of the metaverse to create digital worlds that evoked thosesensations. Furthermore, the necessary long lastingvideo calls for school lessons or for work meetings were digitally exhausting and itdid not recreate the same feelings of real life interactions. During the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, many people started tosuffer the forced isolation into their homes. Nowadays itbecame again famous thanks to the movie “Ready Player One”, directed by StevenSpielberg. The metaverse origins are a stuff of science-fiction: the termwas coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel “Snow Crash”, in which people usevirtual reality headsets to interact inside a virtual world.
Imagine if you were in a world where you could sit on the same couch with a friendwho lives miles and miles away, or set up a virtual version of your workplace whilelaying on the beach.
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