Luo Yonghao announced his entry into the Metaverse, and forwarded this big V's opinion of "surpassing Zuckerberg"

On the morning of November 5th, Luo Yonghao forwarded Shaan Puri's views on the metaverse, and said that the views are very profound. "This is much more reliable than Zuckerberg's concept of metaverse... Our next entrepreneurial project turned out to be a so-called "metaverse company", which quickly sparked heated discussions on the Internet.

Luo Yonghao then responded to the blog post and said: "I posted a post in the morning and reposted Shaan Puri's view of the metaverse (original post in English). His ideas are completely different from the common vulgar understanding and hype of the metaverse now, and he has very deep insights. What I want to express this morning is that starting from his definition, most IT companies are actually leading us to the Metaverse..."

In fact, based on Luo Yonghao’s blog post, it is difficult to speculate that his next project will be “Metaverse”, and it is difficult to guess from his blog post which technology field his so-called next entrepreneurial project is.

According to the Twitter blogger reposted by Luo Yonghao, "Most things related to digital life are also related to the metaverse." In other words, as long as Luo Yonghao is engaged in science and technology-related projects, it can be said to be related to the metaverse. In other words, all technology-related projects are related to the Metaverse.

Aside from the purpose of Luo Yonghao, the "industry lamp", who is passionate about the Metaverse, and whether his next entrepreneurial project is a "Metaverse", after all, his ability to repost the relevant blog posts of the Metaverse has fully demonstrated the existence of the concept of the Metaverse. The more edgy start-ups see opportunities aplenty.

The real reason behind using the "Metaverse blog post" to "disturb the metaverse" is that the future of the metaverse is beyond doubt. It is Shaan Puri who Luo Yonghao called "beyond Zuckerberg's understanding of the concept of the metaverse".

So, what is so special about Shaan Puri's understanding of the metaverse? This article will explain in detail how to understand this new "metaverse concept"!

Shaan Puri's Interpretation of the Concept of the Metaverse

First, let’s take a look at the original text (Chinese translation) of Shaan Puri’s understanding of the Metaverse:

Image source: Screenshot of Luo Yonghao Weibo

Shaan Puri's metaverse theory believes that "most people currently have misunderstandings about the metaverse." In fact, many people speculate that this is a refutation of Zuckerberg's metaverse concept.

Not only Shaan Puri objected to Zuckerberg’s metaverse concept, but Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin also refuted it, saying: “The metaverse will be an involution of the entire human civilization.”

At present, most people think that the metaverse is just a virtual world. Shaan Puri's point of view is that the real metaverse is not a certain space, but a certain point in time. "For example, the moment when artificial intelligence is smarter than humans, and the moment when people's digital life is worth more than physical life."

As for the arrival of the metaverse, Shaan Puri believes that turning to the metaverse cannot be completed overnight, and it will take a long time for development, and eventually digitalization will enter people's lives.

Human factories have turned into computers, and human relationships will shift from relatives and neighbors to followers of their respective social accounts. Human identity has shifted from the definition of interpersonal relationships to the multi-beautified photos and profiles on social accounts. Games have changed from basketball and football against reality into an online game.

The above-mentioned views of Shaan Puri can be summarized as his first point of view: the emergence of the Metaverse will be a starting point for a human society to completely turn to digitalization, and human beings will eventually fully enter the era of the Metaverse.

Humanity will finally enter the metaverse era in an all-round way

From the perspective of historical development, the production needs of human beings promote the progress of science and technology, and the progress of science and technology will inevitably lead to the symbolization and digitization of human society.

Although the metaverse has no clear definition and is far away from us now, the pace of human technology will not stagnate, so the day when the concept of the metaverse is truly realized is getting closer and closer to us.

In the novel "Snow Crash" by American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson, which is generally believed to be the source of the word Metaverse, humans in reality can have a virtual identity (Avatar) on the Internet. Avatar refers specifically to the "avatar" on the Internet.

If we bring the Avatar in the Metaverse into the current society, we will find that everyone’s Internet image has completely diverged from the real image to gradually converge, until the metaverse really comes, and the Avatar will be in harmony with the real human beings. completely converging.

For example, in the field of the first generation of the Internet, Avatars are registered accounts one by one. On the forum-based social platform, they express their emotions and tell their own stories in words. In this way, the image gap between Avatar and our reality is quite large. This is also the reason why netizens joked that "everyone on the Internet is 985, 211, earning millions a year".

After the popularization of 4G, the online real-name system made video social platforms and social platforms with distinctive personal characteristics bind real bank cards and ID cards, and virtual images on the Internet tended to be more and more similar to real people. Avatars in the Internet are not just avatars, but a part of people expressing their true feelings.

People always summarize the concept of metaverse as an immersive "game", which is correct, but it is also wrong. Because no one sees the function of WeChat as a game, it becomes a way to connect with other people in reality. The same is true for the metaverse, which will become a reflection of reality in the future, and also a part of our connection to reality.

Farming-industry-intelligence, the development of human productivity and the progress of science and technology are all reducing the proportion of manual labor. The closer the era is to modern times, the higher the proportion of mental labor.

As Shaan Puri puts it: “It used to be that 99 percent of our attention was in the physical world, the TV brought it down to 85 percent, the computer took it down to 70 percent, the smartphone made it down to 50 percent...our attention has always been Being drawn from the physical world to the digital world.”

The greater the proportion of mental work, the greater the importance of the digital world.

We have reason to believe that when the metaverse comes in the future, the virtual governance institutions, banking economy, currency system, and laws and regulations will completely subvert people's living habits. Mankind will eventually enter the era of the metaverse, and will certainly enter the era of the metaverse.

In another point of view, Shaan Puri cited an example of an NFT project and called it "the Rolex of the new era", and claimed that after ten to twenty years of subtle influence on human society from the Internet age, it will "enter Metaverse”, came to the moment when digital life is more important than physical life, and believed that “through encryption, your assets are also digitized.”

At this time, Shaan Puri threw us a second point of view, the encrypted digitization of NFT assets is an important part of the Metaverse.

Asset digitization and NFT

Mankind will eventually enter the era of the metaverse, and will certainly enter the era of the metaverse. Judging from this conclusion, human digital technology will continue to develop, and the digital economy in the digital world will become more and more important.

There is almost no need to give more examples on this point. After all, China has partially entered a cashless society, and the scope of experiments with digital renminbi (DCEP) is also increasing.

The demand for asset digitization is becoming more and more urgent. The current digital assets have expanded from social accounts, game equipment, and commercial coupons. After the emergence of blockchain technology, the importance and value of digital assets have been further affirmed At present, the total digital assets of the global blockchain industry have exceeded 2 trillion US dollars, and its influence on global finance and value exchange methods is also increasing.

So, how to judge whether a virtual number has "asset attributes" in the Metaverse?

The asset attributes in the metaverse must have the three characteristics of value, scarcity and disposability, have the possibility of being exclusive and disposable in jurisprudence, and have independent economic value.

Article 127 of my country's "Civil Code" stipulates: "Where the law has provisions on the protection of data and network virtual property, follow its provisions." This provision clarifies that data and network virtual property are included in the protection objects of civil property rights scope.

To realize that the numbers in the Metaverse concept have asset attributes, NFT technology must be used.

For example, the results of mental labor in the metaverse will eventually be presented in digital form, so if the results of everyone's labor can be copied at will and cannot be distinguished, who is the first to complete the actual work of this work Otherwise, then working in the Metaverse would be meaningless.

However, if it is necessary to confirm the rights and capitalize the fruits of labor, this number must be made scarce (as the only certificate of labor), disposable (people can freely dispose of their own labor fruits), independent economic value (making labor The results are linked to other economic bases such as digital currencies in reality or metaverse).

At present, NFT technology can realize this vision and the technology is becoming more and more mature, which can be used to protect the property rights of objects.

The full name of NFT is Non-Fungible Token, that is, non-homogeneous token. Familiar tokens based on blockchain bookkeeping include BTC and ETH, both of which are homogeneous tokens. Each homogeneous token can be substituted for each other and can be divided. For example, each bitcoin can be divided into 100 Tens of thousands of copies, each of which is the smallest bitcoin unit: Satoshi, and each NFT is unique, irreplaceable, and indivisible.

Finally, Shaan Puri described a scene in the vision of the metaverse, "Today, it takes a little effort to take out a mobile phone from your pocket, and soon, a company will make smart glasses that hang in our eyes all day long. Up front. At that time, our attention on the screen will transition from 50% to more than 90%, and at that point, it will be the beginning of the metaverse. Because at that point, our virtual life will be more important than our real life.”

This involves the ultimate ethical issue of the metaverse. Once the world of the metaverse is too beautiful and addictive to human beings, and human beings are addicted to the metaverse world and do not want to return to the real world, will it really be like what Liu Cixin said: " The Metaverse has become the biggest involution in the human world.”

At this time, Shaan Puri throws us a third point of view: Does the link between metaverse and reality need to be limited? Because Shaan Puri himself did not give an answer to this point of view, we can get a glimpse of the truth from the discussion of philosophical issues between virtuality and reality.

How to Balance Virtual and Reality

Indeed, in the future we can foresee, the metaverse is a digital universe, and everything in the metaverse is a digital world displayed in front of people through calculations. No matter how real, gorgeous, and tempting it is, it is still a virtual world, a world that is opposed to reality.

People need a bridge to connect and communicate from the real universe to the metaverse. In the book "Snow Crash", this bridge is entered through virtual reality headsets and glasses. Shaan Puri's idea is that "a certain company will make Smart glasses hang in front of our eyes all day long." But only visual and auditory stimuli cannot fully form the immersion of the Metaverse for humans .

How to let people experience other perceptions is a problem that needs to be solved technically, such as smell, touch, taste and so on. To deceive these perception systems through physical means to achieve the purpose of illusion, it is necessary to stimulate the relevant neurons, or activate the corresponding perception memory in the hippocampus or cerebral cortex.

Display technology can show us the world of the metaverse, and project the metaverse from the virtual to reality. We can imagine that after the road signs in the meta universe are projected into the real world, whether the real world does not need road signs. What about traffic lights? What about navigation maps? What about scenery and concerts?

When the Metaverse is more and more closely connected with the real world, will there be situational experience, sense of world substitution and pleasure, or some organizations using sensory stimulation to attract users in order to gain more users?

Of course, we don’t need to consider these issues now, but just as the metaverse will eventually come, these seemingly science fiction philosophical issues will also come one day.

summary

So, based on the above explanation, is the metaverse a good thing or a bad thing? I think it would be appropriate to end with the words of Shaan Puri, "Like everything, it's neither good nor bad, it's just one thing, and a very different thing."

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