Talking about NFT and the Metaverse

With the continuous development and improvement of the digital industry, as well as its more extensive and in-depth application in real life, some people believe that in the near future, human beings may fully enter the digital age. In today’s world, the digital industry has penetrated into many aspects of life. This article mainly talks about my understanding of NFT, a technology that many people don’t know much about, and the concept of the current metaverse.

NFT, the full name is a non-fungible token or a non-fungible confirmation certificate. It is the only cryptocurrency token used to represent digital assets, including in the form of pictures and video clips, that can be bought and sold. This concept may be a bit abstract. Here is a common example: the artist draws an electronic portrait, the ownership of the painting belongs to the artist, he is the sole owner of the portrait, and the portrait is unique, no one else cares. Whether it is downloaded or reprinted, the painting cannot be used for profit, because the painter has the certificate of the confirmation certificate of the electronic portrait. If he transfers the portrait to others, the person after the transfer becomes the electronic portrait. The owner of the sole and definitive ownership of the data package behind it.

Taobao’s explanation of NFT: NFT is a blockchain technology, and each digital commodity issued by relying on NFT Development Company blockchain technology is mapped with a serial number on a specific blockchain. They are immutable, indivisible, and irreplaceable. It is these qualities that make NFT digital goods an excellent carrier of digital artwork. Each NFT digital good represents a specific digital artwork or its limited-edition single replica, recording its immutable on-chain power. Judging from the characteristics of NFT digital goods, it is not difficult for us to understand that NBA star Curry spent $180,000 to buy a monkey avatar, Tron founder Justin Sun bought his first avatar for $10.5 million, NetEase’s game “Eternal Jie” The occurrence of several things that happened when IP authorized the issuance of NFT.

As a currency token for digital assets, NFT is only an electronic data package transaction, and the actual item is still in the hands of the seller, which has a great advantage in the field of art — risk avoidance: Baidu has The complete data form of the internal structure of Notre Dame de Paris, people can visit Notre Dame de Paris in a complete three-dimensional form wearing VR glasses. After a fire broke out in Notre Dame, after many things were destroyed, we can still use VR glasses in Baidu. Seeing the original intact Notre Dame Cathedral on the Internet, this is in a sense an out-of-print digital asset.

Although the total market capitalization of NFT tokens is insignificant compared to the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies of $2 trillion, with the continuous introduction of new projects, the demand in the NFT field has increased significantly with the increase in supply, and the entire NFT space will continue to expand. , the large-scale encrypted users have not yet entered this field, which also means that NFT has more possibilities.

NFT is just one application in the digital industry. Tencent Research Institute shows that human beings have become a digital species, and real individuals and virtual individuals coexist.

Based on the current development trend of human digital industry and network technology, as well as the imagination of the future, people put forward a concept-metaverse. With different thoughts, the metaverse in different people’s minds is also different. We can simply think of it as a relatively virtual world, in which people can consume, play, conduct decentralized transactions and even create.

Some people think that the metaverse is to reproduce the material of the physical world into the data world to restore the human body’s five senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste; others think that since it is a virtual world, it is necessary to use its own Imagination and creativity, creating a whole new world, a parallel universe, creating a world like Peach Blossom Land or Utopia; but some people think that the metaverse is just a time node, when we use the data world for more time than we spend in the physical world (A simple way to judge: in terms of mobile phone usage time, if the average human usage time exceeds 12 hours, it means that we have lived in the data world for longer than the physical world.) This is called the time base point of the original universe .

No matter how you explain it, at the end of the day, the Metaverse for humans puts us in a virtual rather than a reality. For a while on Douyin, there was a wave of college students’ graduation scene conversion and editing. In recent years, due to the epidemic, many college students have not been able to attend graduation ceremonies. Cloud graduation has become the mainstream, so Metaverse can combine the two. College students do not need to edit in the virtual world. They can quickly change their clothes on the scene by imagination, and even change the special effects they want. Schools no longer have to worry about the financial problems such as fireworks and the ecological problems caused by them. Graduation is really unforgettable in a lifetime. experience.

It is true that we can achieve utopian life in the metaverse, but the current metaverse technology is still not perfect. Nft Genrator When a woman experiences the metaverse in the game, her avatar is violated another male avatar, and when the opponent touches the body in the game, the handle will give vibration feedback. The controller her hand also vibrates, which increases the woman’s psychological discomfort and makes her more nervous. In response to this incident, Kathryn, researcher at the University of Washington who studies online harassment, said: There is not much difference between the violations in the virtual world and the real world, and people will have the same psychological and neurological reactions.