Metaverse is a virtual world parallel to the real world, a virtual world that allows you to truly experience perception and feedback from the real world. Functionally, Metaverse is a platform carrying virtual activities, where users can conduct social and spiritual activities such as social interaction, entertainment, creation, education and trading. Metaverse need have at least eight elements: identity, friendship, immersion, low latency, diversification, anywhere, economic system, and civilization. The content was learned by AEX from GoodData.
In face of the construction difficulties of Metaverse such as virtuality-reality separation, identity and rights authentication difficulty, data security and ultimate experience, GoodData starts with idle data to take users into Metaverse. NFT is used to confirm the rights, and Play To Earn used to realize self-reproduction and self-growth of every digital life. In the GoodData parallel universe, everyone is a data center node to maintain the steady operation of the social system. They have strong physique and are able to accomplish wealth accumulation and mind evolution, and realize value exchange between the virtual world and the real world.
What are the barriers of constructing Metaverse?
So far, AR/VR, wearables, 5G, and cloud technology have indeed brought humans closer to some of their imaginations. But Metaverse is a "universe" of humans, so it requires the ability to create the universe, such as good stories, extreme experience, and spatial persistence.
GoodData Foundation has found, by further decomposing the core elements of Metaverse, that this virtual digital parallel universe requires: synchronized ER, open-source creation, sustainable closed-loop, and data support. Therefore, Metaverse is facing the following core problems:
Servers cannot meet the needs of Metaverse construction. The "immersion", "low latency", and "anywhere" mentioned in the "Metaverse" concept actually mean “real enough”, “lag-free”, and “portable”. Metaverse requires massive real-time communication. The current servers and bandwidth are completely incapable in terms of their capacity. How to achieve intensive interaction among a large number of players in the same scenario without lag or delay?
The interactive immersion of the virtual world is poor. Whole-body VR auxiliary equipment is only used in minimal space; tactile vibration feedback is supported by external equipment, while software and content support is absent. Without gravity balance, the immersion in "the virtual world" will be greatly weakened.
The establishment of social system in the virtual world is difficult. A sound social system comprises establishment of identity, economic and monetary system, and recognized community norms. No game platform is a real "open world" at present-- most are "pseudo-open" on limited contents. The "diversification”, “economic system”, “civilization” and “identity" in the concept of Metaverse all need be undertaken by specific carriers.
Professional identity is limited and divorced from the real world as the monetary system. The elites in the virtual world may be poor in reality. So Metaverse is more an all-inclusive ecology than a game. Only by recording all the data, transactions, and performances in the virtual world on distributed ledgers can the property rights and interests of everyone be protected.
Moreover, GoodData argues that "further explorations are necessary on the fairness and degree of freedom of Metaverse". If the situation of “the strong are constantly strong” exists at the very beginning, it will be difficult or less motivated for the latecomers to participate, thus leading to poor vitality and persistence of the space. . .
A path linking the real world and Metaverse-- data
The American science fiction novelist Neal Stephenson describes the prototype of Metaverse in his Snow Crash published in 1992: a virtual new world that is derived from and runs parallel to the real world. All the core elements of real life, including social interaction, entertainment, consumption, and even sex, will be realized in this world.
It is clear that human-centered Metaverse is not a completely new world, but a derivative of the real world. In other words, Metaverse must be strongly associated with reality.
To build a parallel universe that everyone can get engaged in, it is necessary to find the resources that are held by all market subjects. Exactly, that is data. GoodData believes that association with real data will be a reliable path to connect virtuality and reality.
At present, the global data volume is growing at an average annual rate of 50%, but it also faces challenges such as data leakage, the disability of market subjects to protect data privacy, and serious data island problem. Blockchain, applied cryptography and other technology can realize encryption computing and compliant sharing of data in Metaverse, to achieve "usability and invisibility" of data and safeguard ecological data and privacy security.
Obviously, it will be extremely easy for people to enter Metaverse through data, which will in turn help release the value of massive real data in Metaverse. GoodData is injecting new blood for the mining of massive data value (eg. sleep data, exercise data, and health data) in Metaverse through systematic research, grassroots activism, open source of infrastructure architecture, project incubation fund and other means.
GoodData completed the underlying evolution of Metaverse with NFT
NFT (non-fungible token) has uniqueness, inseparability and distinguishing characteristics. NFT can turn virtual objects into transaction substances for value circulation in Metaverse. Meanwhile, identifying NFT can confirm a user's authority, so NFT can serve as a token (certificate) for rights confirmation of Metaverse. This will realize the decentralized transfer of power in the virtual world.
A third party is unnecessary in a transaction. NFT is essentially a digital key to facilitate the transfer and exercise of data assets. Any right in Metaverse can be easily financialized, including access right, view right, approval right and construction right, thus facilitating the transfer, rent and transaction of these rights.
Simply put, NFT can give any item in the virtual world value as well as property rights and ownership. Everything in the real world can be mapped to the blockchain world through NFT, ranging from physical assets, commercial creativity, intellectual property rights to personal real estates, cars, toys, pets, photos, and even a Tweet. At the same time, NFT is separable from Metaverse, so that users can undertake wealth in the real world.
GoodData uses NFT to carry Metaverse rights, so that the virtual world will reach out of entertainment domain. The assets of the virtual world can circulate smoothly in reality. Then, you will be more motivated to spare no effort to become an elite of the virtual world. Distributed storage supports NFT deposit. So your fate is in your own hands-- you will never suffer loss from operator shutdown or node failure.
GoodData upgrades assets and cryptographic services in the parallel world, completing the underlying evolution of Metaverse. In Metaverse, you can build your social network, conduct asset accumulation, and do everything you can accomplish in reality. The only difference from the real world is that you will be the master of the new world and no longer submit to anybody else.
Open the gate of Metaverse by starting with earning NFTs
Nowadays, many people have no access to Metaverse for on-chain operation threshold, asset threshold, relevancy with reality or other reasons. GoodData combines games with finance to design the financial model of “play to earn”, so that people can easily earn in Metaverse.
"NFT, if combined with idle assets (eg. sleep hours data), can increase personal additional income and realize the potential economic benefits. " Young people are eager to “lie flat”, which actually means earning money as lying flat.
In Metaverse, everything is valuable. The process of making profits becomes an engaging and interesting experience. Sleep data can be a good start. Other “profitable data” include the exercise data of exercise and fitness industry, the calorie intake data of health care industry, the daily bookkeeping of consumer finance industry, and the diet adjustment data of massive health industry. All these data can be uploaded automatically by a paired individual wristband.
Sleep monitoring sounds the bulge of massive health deployment in Metaverse
Sleep data is closely related to the causes of various diseases, so it is the core big data in the AI era of massive health. In the United States, the incidence of insomnia is as high as 32%-50%. That figure is 76% among Chinese young people. However, due to the lack of physical signs data at night, the root causes of many diseases (such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases) cannot be quantitatively traced back, so that it is impossible to suit the remedy to the case.
GoodData takes sleep data as the front-end access to Metaversal massive health sector to detect users' continuous breathing, sleep degree, arterial oxygen saturation, EEG, ECG and heart rate at night. The collection and tracking of a large number of vital signs during the sleep hours (1/3 of a day) in Metaverse will offer extremely important value support for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases.
The massive health sector of Metaverse will benefit users in the real world. GoodData connects sleep data with all other personal data like diets, mood, environmental temperature and exercise intensity, realizing a crypto closed loop of personal data in Metaverse. Combined with the diet data, lighting data, air conditioning temperature data, temperature and humidity data, exercise data and so on randomly uploaded by users, the most efficient customized solutions can be obtained for emotional health, figure management, and sleep improvement, for example.
The value empowering of GoodData analyzed from the perspective of grassroots
GoodData is a secure, Metaverse-supporting decentralized platform. On the platform, people can convert personal digital assets into NFTs through Cyborg-Goody so as to freely travel in Metaverse. Since everyone can upload random data, will NFTs or the ecological token GOOD become meaningless Airdrop?
Since the subject of Metaverse is people, the community will be important driving forces and cultural genes of Metaverse. Under a decentralized framework, GoodData provides a fair opportunity for all, which is very valuable for disadvantaged grassroots. All groups of people can upload data, which breaks the existing crypto population limit. This, to some extent, means weakening of the concept of class. A token-driven economic model will bring a more fair and just social order maintenance way. That is why our bold attempt will be greatly supported by the grassroots.
Through our self-created multi-role NFT, namely Cyborg-Goody, you can get an identity symbol with authentic rights on the chain. Then, you can obtain unique appearance design, permanent memory, free conversion of digital assets, social network, revenue from crypto sharing, daily Good gifts, etc. In the GoodData virtual world, an individual has complete identity, social relations and resources to carry out the same social activities as in the real world, thus broadening the dimension of life.
As everyone holds data assets in GoodData Metaverse, posters about GoodData will be everywhere. Then, NFTs or GOOD will be perfect for interactions in the virtual world (such as giving rewards or red envelopes). The rapid spread of data and its "engulfing" of real-world companies may soon lead to the emergence of a whole "virtual" parallel world, where everyone has a digital himself/herself.
The diversity of data sources endows GoodData Metaverse with rich consumption content, fair creation platforms, reliable economic system and immersive interactive experience, making it possible for people to repose emotion and have a sense of belonging.
Technically, GoodData is using self-developed underlying techniques (eg. Distributed storage, AI machine learning, differential privacy, and Secure Multi-party Computation are combined with blockchain technology) to give NFT full-cycle protection and extended applications, explore the real value association of NFTs between the two worlds, and realize the value transfer of various human assets.
The binding of GoodData to unique valuable real-world data assets will constantly attract more people to Metaverse. In the parallel world, all players enjoy free access and earn benefits through in-game activities, creating a hotbed for an autonomous world. Individualized nodes will jointly witness the explosive growth of Metaverse.