Technologies for Metaverse Featured at CES

It would not be wrong to say that Metaverse is the most popular topic of recent times. Many technology giants have announced that they will invest billions of dollars in this issue. Facebook, one of the largest companies in the world, also changed its name.Meta‘ and announced that it would increase metaverse projects.

As can be expected, this also affected the world’s largest technology fair, CES (Consumer Electronics Expo). In the past days, after a two-year break, the physical at CES 2022 Many companies introduced their new products in different sectors. Metaverse was also among the highlights of this fair.

“What is the metaverse if we can’t feel what we’re going through?”

Many products for the Metaverse were showcased at CES 2022. Spain-based company Owo also introduced its jacket equipped with sensors, which will provide an even more ‘realistic’ experience to virtual reality. The founder of the company, Jose Fuartes, said, “If we can’t feel what we’ve been through, the metaverse what is?” used the expressions and the experiences we live in a virtual universe; He stated that they designed a jacket that we can really feel, like hugs, being shot at games or the wind.

Regarding their jackets equipped with sensors, Fuertes said, “Our aim is to create worlds that are virtuala second body‘ to make it more realistic by using used the phrases. We can say that this $450 jacket, which will be released later this year, brings to mind ‘Ready Player One’, a dystopian novel and movie that perhaps best illustrates how the metaverse can be.

How long will it take for the Metaverse to reach the desired level?

Virtual reality technologies (VR) are now generally used in games. However, many tech giants want to change this situation and allow any person sitting at home to do different things through virtual or augmented reality. Of course, although companies such as Meta and HTC have a large investment in these technologies, VR sets are still enough to be worn for a long time. comfortable and light not.

Paddy Cosgrave, who is at the head of the European Web Summit, is also very excited about virtual and augmented reality; however, he states that it may take more than ten years for the Metaverse to reach the desired level, and it is too early to get excited right now.

Still, Touchcast, a metaverse company, made an interesting introduction on the subject. Touchcast, like ‘.com’, which will take place in the blockchain database, which will enable cooperation between companies. ‘.metaverse’ introduced a platform with Edo Segal, the founder of the company, also said about the metaverse, “Nothing can stop the Metaverse. In 1999 we wouldn’t have believed we could shop online. And look now. Humanity is moving towards digital worlds.”

“Realistic virtual experiences with a single costume”

a subsidiary of Panasonic shiftall also introduced a product developed for the metaverse at CES 2022. Company CEO Takuma Iwasa, who plans to make virtual world visits more realistic through people’s avatars, introduced light, comfortable and high-resolution VR sets at the fair.

This set, which has an interesting design, was met with great interest at the fair. Iwasa also said in his statements, “In the future, as we saw in Ready Player One custom costumes and there will be realistic metaverse experiences. However, current metaverse users will realize these with different products. Just like ‘cyborgs’” He thought that in the future, people could visit virtual worlds in a real life-like way through a single costume.

From such explanations and introduced products, we can say that the metaverse is developing rapidly. Still, many experts have come into our lives through the metaverse, just as they did when the internet developed. many dangers He thinks he can enter and warns. Dan Günther, an augmented reality (XR) expert, said:Fake content and identities will be in the metaverse. The things we’ve seen and disturbed throughout the evolution of the Internet will be here as well.” used the phrases.