1. Game is always the shortest path to Metaverse
Metaverse, first proposed by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his work Snow Crash in 1992, refers to a virtual parallel world which is born out of and interacts with the real world. Metaverse was just in the conceptual phase for a long time. But this concept with a sense of science and future has inspired countless people to explore.
Liu Cixin, a famous science fiction writer, has a famous conclusion: there are two roads in front of human beings: one is outward, leading to the sea of stars, the other is inward, leading to virtual reality. He believes that the future of mankind lies in the first way, and the second way will make mankind indulge in the virtual world, which will affect the normal operation of the real world, and eventually lead to the destruction of mankind.
But in fact, Metaverse will not be a substitute for the real world, but an extension and supplement. An unlimited number of people can participate in it at the same time. It will have a fully functioning economy that spans both the physical and digital worlds. Data, content and IP can work in Metaverse. Users and even companies will create content or provide services in Metaverse to make it more prosperous.
If Metaverse is the new continent, the first ship sailing to is game. The OASIS，Metaverse in film Ready Player One, may be too far away from realization, but the sandbox virtual simulation game represented by Roblox has attracted more than 100 million active players monthly.
The mature technical reserves of the game industry, as well as the user habits and cognition of game players, greatly increase the possibility of the birth of Metaverse in the game industry. In addition, as a media form, except the integration of text, image, audio, video and other mainstream information elements, game also provides people with a real-time interactive experience. Moreover, the game itself has specific scenes, and the participants of the game have similar and equal rights. Everyone can communicate, cooperate, fight and trade through various game playing methods under the established game mechanism. In fact, this has given birth to the rudiment of Metaverse.
In recent years, Epic Games and other game developers have invested a lot of resources in the exploration of Metaverse, which will accelerate the development of Metaverse in the game. Overall, game is indeed the shortest path to Metaverse.
2. Simulation world is not the ultimate form of Metaverse
In most people’s inherent impression, Metaverse should be a 3D game like GTA5 or an open world like Minecraft. However, if it is still limited by these so-called game types, game mechanisms or other rules, Metaverse will lose its core value different from the real world. 3D open world and VR may be an option for Metaverse, but they are not necessary.
Metaverse will not be limited to a specific game or scene. In the future, there will be multiple Metaverse with different styles and types. Whether to enter one or several Metaverse, such as two dimensions Metaverse, medieval Metaverse, cyberpunk Metaverse and so on, depends on the player’s own choice.
Therefore, to bulid a fully simulated virtual world should not be the goal of Metaverse. The core of Metaverse is freedom. The final form of Metaverse is a free and open world.
A free and open world needs a stable economic foundation and governance system. At present, the decentralized economic system and DAO governance mode supported by blockchain technology may be the best choice to realize Metaverse.
Construct a Metaverse economic system based on blockchain technology to realize the decentralization of production relations in the virtual world, so that everyone can freely create their own value. The management rules of the world are encoded on the blockchain in the form of smart contracts, and each user node has the right to participate in the management of the world in which they live. NFTs maintain the value interaction between the virtual world and the real world, so it finally becomes a free virtual Utopia.
3. NEXTYPE takes the first step towards Metaverse
As mentioned above, game is the shortest path to realize Metaverse, and blockchain is likely to become the underlying technology foundation of Metaverse. Therefore, the blockchain game should be the pioneer. In fact, this is what NEXTYPE wants to do. By introducing the mature production concepts and methods of the traditional game industry, blockchain game will continue to evolve towards Metaverse.
The core value of Metaverse is freedom. One of the manifestations mapped to the economic system is the absolute freedom of the assets and values created by the players in the game.
In order to achieve this goal, NEXTYPE has been studying the possibility of technology realization to ensure the cross-chain circulation and storage of NFT and other assets. At present, it has determined the multi-chain exchange scheme of Erc20 token, which is implemented and deployed by the GOLANG development team of NEXTYPE. At the same time, NEXTYPE will also increase the research and development of the underlying cross chain technology to realize the cross-chain transfer of multi-chain assets directly to different blockchain addresses, including Ecr20 and NFT assets. The public blockchain planned to realize cross-chain support include Ethereum, BSC, HECO, OKexChain, etc.
As for the right of users to participate in governance, in the NTbox, integrated blockchain game platform, users can rely on the ecological token NT to participate in the daily operation and decision-making of NEXTYPE ecology, such as game ranking, community voting, etc. It will finally evolve into the DAO governance mode.
To Metaverse, NEXTYPE has taken the first step.
