Daniel A Lewis - The NFT and Metaverse Investing Book: Beginners Guide To Making Money In Virtual Real Estate, Digital Art, Video Games and Blockchain: Beginners Guide To Making Money

The Metaverse, a futuristic utopia that seeks to unite the real and virtual worlds, left the pages of science fiction books and ended up on the tables of investors and large companies. The potential surrounding this idea is so great that it even made Facebook change its name to "Meta."

This guide will explain the Metaverse, when it came into being, and why big conglomerates want to ride the wave. It also reveals how to invest in this new market and the relationship between this universe and cryptocurrencies.

People can work, socialize, transact, play, and even create in the Metaverse, which is a persistent, massively evolving network of interconnected virtual worlds focused on real-time interaction. It fully immerses the user in the virtual world using virtualization and advanced technologies (AR, VR, haptic sensors, and so on). This means that the user can interact in real-time with an always-present world that he can access whenever he wants.

Many proponents believe that the perfect futuristic version of the "Metaverse" would consist of a single platform where you would have your personality, your identity, and connected platform services, under which many worlds would be created and which you could access. Like a world with many sub-worlds that you can join, leave or even create. Important factors remain the definition of digital identity, digital ownership, digital currencies, and the universal transferability of digital assets enabling a fully functioning economy in a virtual world.

Thus, the Metaverse could replace several aspects of how tourism works, the meaning of a concert, the discovery of art exhibitions. Still, above all the way people learn, study, interact, and even meet friends.

Another concept that must be clear in order not to fall into confusion is the multiverse. This term refers to the fact that there are universes other than ours, which would mean the existence of realities other than ours.

Therefore, both terms have nothing to do with each other. The Metaverse aspires to be a perfect simulation of our reality or of infinite fiction. Meanwhile, the multiverse is the theory that affirms the existence of universes equal to or different from ours with different characteristics from each other.

However, it should be noted that multiverses can occur within a Metaverse, and therefore, Metaverses within a multiverse. This would mean equating our physical reality with virtual, like different existing universes.

In this aspect, on a cultural level, the multiverse can be referred to in DC and Marvel comics, and in television series such as Rick & Morty, among others.

Although there is no clear consensus on the definitions of Web3 and the difference of the Metaverse, there is a lot of discussions. Many crypto enthusiasts like to believe that crypto is the next stage of the internet. In contrast, others argue that after Web2 based on social interaction, we will see the leap into the immersive internet called "Metaverse." So far, it's unclear where to draw the line and where to make the difference, but the discussion will continue whether Web3 is made up of crypto and blockchain or an immersive internet with virtual worlds.

Web 3.0

Although it has recently gained relevance, the Metaverse can be considered a "natural evolution" of the web. That's because, just like 3G, 4G, and 5G technology, internet browsing has also developed over generations.

In web 1.0, most of what you could access on the internet were chats, forums, static sites, catalogs, and email clients.

At the time, this limitation was linked to the very technological frontiers that presented themselves: even if it were feasible, it made no sense to build sophisticated digital platforms if the connection and the users' devices were not able to access them.

With web 2.0, made possible in large part by the spread of broadband, it has finally become possible to build platforms, social networks, and blogs.

Because of the higher connection speed, video streaming, video calling, and media transfer, in general, became commonplace for most of the public. From a social perspective, the second generation gave the internet user a voice, allowing users to generate content instead of just consuming it.

Semantic internet

With the Metaverse, there are those who say that the world is already preparing for the arrival of web 3.0 or even the "semantic web."

In this generation of the internet, the massive use of resources such as Big Data Analytics and the constant capture of data, added to the greater connectivity capacity and Cloud Computing, would allow all online information to be integrated.

In practice, the contents that make up the world wide web could not only be easily accessed by machines and human beings but understood in an analogous way by both.

In short, it can be said that the internet would be "endowed with meaning," in a way that smart devices would understand the nature of a given content, instead of seeing it only as a set of data or information, as they do today.