Monday 8 November 2021

“Pair-of-glasses” is the Next Internet Revolution? Metaverse Combined with Design Thinking Rule the Social Experience in Next 10 Years? Are You Ready to Embrace? Read this Interesting Perspective!!

Dear Friends and Students

Last week Mark Zukerberg announced Meta as their Future Brand (Facebook, Whatsapp, Insta, and other Few Social Tools combined). Immediately, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shares Metaverse plans, talks about users' immersive experience. Few other companies like Unity Software, Nvidia Corp, Epic Games, Payments firm Visa, etc. are betting huge and investing into Metaverse technologies.

Now you might ask what this Metaverse is. Why suddenly all these companies talking about?

Few decades back, desktop was popular. Next, web ruled the world and today the mobile. Similarly, when we were working, few of our IT teams used to have a gadget named “Pager”. Now it is no more. A small text used to popup and they used to attend calls. For some time, text was the king. Later photo sharing became a popular medium. Thanks to YouTube and free video space provisioning, today video content is powerful.

Now the question is what is upgraded in this evolution? – Experience and Social Connection!

The next in the line is all about Metaverse, an evolution of social connection! People are no happier with basic static or video calls!  They want more experience. Here comes Metaverse using Augmented Reality (AR) Or Virtual Reality (VR) or Mixed Reality (MR) technologies.

A day is coming shortly, where you don’t need to build a 5 crores physical mansion to experience the house. You can develop it virtually and immerse yourself! Metaverse makes it happen.

You don’t need to attend a family function happening 100 miles away! Your avatar can participate in that function as if you are physically present! You can participate in your cousin’s Marriage Sangeet Function happening in another country, sitting in your place!

You don’t need to go 1000 miles away to participate in an important customer meeting. Your avatar participates virtually. It allows physical expressions, eye contact, debate and make your presence feel natural and vivid, but you are virtual!

How it is possible? Technology is ramping up. AR/VR/MR are going to change this metaverse experience. Companies like Meta (Facebook) are building new ecosystem and brining standards and norms in this space without compromising privacy and safety. Metaverse brings Presence, Avatars, Home Space, Teleporting (hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them), Interoperability, Virtual Goods, Natural Interfaces, etc.

Virtual Reality (VR) technology means, when you wear VR enabled pair of glasses, you will be taken to virtual environment. Games, Training, Lab demonstration, Live broadcast etc. can be a few examples. Your professor can give a demo sitting in his office and you can attend lab sitting in your home!

Augmented Reality (AR) technology means real environment in addition to digital elements. You might have heard about Pokemon Go right? It is completely AR game. IKEA (Furniture) Mobile App, Disney Coloring Book (3D renderings using a mobile phone or tablet), L’Oréal Makeup App (various types of makeup), Weather Channel Studio Effects are few other examples!

Mixed Reality (MR) technology allows you to interact with and manipulate both physical and virtual items and environments simultaneous, using next-generation sensing and imaging technologies.

All this needed a lot of data and great infrastructure. This is going to be boom for some time!

Design Thinking makes these experiences more humanly! Design Thinking plays crucial role in developing these experiences!! Design Thinking shapes the Metaverse technology and applies to the real and social context.

Are you excited? Now you might ask, what skills you need to develop to participate in this revolution.

Skillset: Design Thinking, Programming (Java, C#, Swift, JavaScript, loops, control-logic, OOP principles like inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, etc at your fingertips), UX Design Knowledge, UI/UX Development based on a given mock, SDKs like ARCore, ARKit, ARFoundation, Machine Learning & Computer Vision, 3D Modelling & Animation, Graphics Rendering, and finally understanding of Social Media!

Few IITs and Deemed Universities started Bachelor of Design Course with few Computer Science additions. Next year IIT Delhi is going to start B.Des. course. This course gets sense of future and structured Career path!

Are you ready to make your self-prepared for Next Metaverse based Internet Revolution?

Metaverse- All happening in a Pair of Glasses! Do You want to Cook in those glasses?

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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