The metaverse at first glance
Summary
With technological innovation creating endless possibilities for people across all sectors, this year’s latest craze is set to bring about ample job opportunities. The metaverse is rapidly taking the world by storm, a concept that amalgamates VR and AR into an immersive online experience in which people will be able to virtually socialise. Leo SaLemi exemplifies this in his own writing as he describes experts’ opinions on the job requirements: “The Blockchain Engineer needs to be comfortable with learning as they go since this is a new and emerging field with very little formal training around; they must have the ability of ‘adopting a new mindset’ which focuses on efficiency, scalability, and distributed computing… A Blockchain Engineer will need to be a hybrid of a junior economist, an API developer, a data geek and an auditor.” Similar specifications can be applied to conversations surrounding the metaverse, a concept that still we know relatively little about. Many already engage with forms of VR for activities such as sports and gaming, but both the potential and desire for social meetups through a headset is veering closer. Unfortunately, it also opens up issues of representation as people battle with the oversexualisation of avatars or the potential for certain physical features to be exaggerated or chosen to mock others.
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