Metaverse Games and World Platforms — Transcript
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- 0:02okay so I wanted to go a little deeper
- 0:04into
- 0:05metaverse and how games in play uh is uh
- 0:09being affected by it
- 0:12we'll talk a little bit about you know
- 0:15companies video game companies that are
- 0:17out there right now that who've gone and
- 0:20um
- 0:21uh we've been around as a game company
- 0:25for many years and then evolving into
- 0:28you know a metaverse company uh it's uh
- 0:32just this
- 0:33uh crazy notion that maybe the metaverse
- 0:36isn't real you know you look at
- 0:38companies like facebook slash meta who's
- 0:41stock is plummeting like crazy because
- 0:44they basically over invested in the
- 0:47technology little too soon uh but
- 0:51I mean it's all relative you know when
- 0:54we were asked to Define what multimedia
- 0:57is for
- 0:58um a workstation company I was working
- 1:00for you know we couldn't really Define
- 1:02what multimedia is all about but just
- 1:05like the metaverse you know what do you
- 1:06what what is the metaverse who's who you
- 1:09know what what it it keeps changing in
- 1:12terms of
- 1:14you know commercial companies creating
- 1:17technologies that are gonna you know
- 1:19change what the internet is going to be
- 1:22to you know just doing the easy thing
- 1:25and and uh looking at what the metaverse
- 1:28should be which is you know what does
- 1:30the consumer need what do what what what
- 1:32do you or I need to make our lives uh
- 1:36with a better experience and really
- 1:39that's all what it's all about
- 1:42um you know the technology is changing
- 1:45obviously
- 1:46um but we'll we'll delve into it a
- 1:48little a little deeper in terms of how
- 1:50these uh you know our world of you know
- 1:53the way we we experience or play uh in
- 1:56uh today and as well as maybe in the
- 1:58future
- 2:05okay so I got this
- 2:08image from augray.com and you know what
- 2:12is the evolution of game you know we
- 2:14talked about knuckle bones and using
- 2:17Stones as as implements to our games to
- 2:20playing some simple games like Checkers
- 2:23or even before that you could play
- 2:24moncolo or uh you know or or we we
- 2:28talked about the games that uh you know
- 2:30Egyptians played and so forth right
- 2:33we have you know board games which I
- 2:36hope you folks are still playing uh
- 2:39having a physical object in your hands
- 2:40as well as moving pieces with your hands
- 2:43it's it's you know there's something
- 2:45tacti physical that that that that makes
- 2:47the game
- 2:49um fun but you know nowadays we have
- 2:51video games and our tactile is is either
- 2:54the keyboard mouse or a a game
- 2:57controller right
- 3:00um you know so so these are you know
- 3:03this Evolution uh you know going to uh
- 3:07desktop PCS to game consoles to mobile
- 3:11devices to tablets I'm constantly
- 3:14playing Clash of Clans on my on my
- 3:17tablet every day uh being in Legends
- 3:20league so I have to attack eight times a
- 3:22day
- 3:24um three minutes each attack kind of
- 3:26thing right
- 3:27um
- 3:29to virtual reality and augmented reality
- 3:33type games uh you know uh I've got I've
- 3:38got a
- 3:39a meta quest uh VR headset and uh as
- 3:45well as a Microsoft hololens
- 3:48and you know the the way you play these
- 3:51games is changing drastically and I and
- 3:53how the uh these Technologies are are
- 3:58evolving our game you know we're we're
- 4:00looking at it uh even deeper in the
- 4:03sense that the metaverse
- 4:05um with the uh I guess a way to look at
- 4:08it is the next generation of the
- 4:10internet is going to evolve our games
- 4:15so the metaverse was first defined by
- 4:18this book called snow crash written by
- 4:20Neil Stevens and we talked about this uh
- 4:22previously
- 4:23um and it's basically you know the
- 4:25metaverse is where humans interact with
- 4:27each other as avatars in Virtual space
- 4:29and in this book you uh either show up
- 4:33at a at a internet cafe in a terminal or
- 4:37you own a virtual reality headset
- 4:40and uh you know how the the world plays
- 4:45out it's it's actually this is a really
- 4:46good book I would suggest you reading it
- 4:49um and then you know this this book was
- 4:51written in 1992 and he called it a
- 4:54metaverse and that's how we got the term
- 4:56metaverse
- 4:58um but this human interaction and
- 5:00experience is exactly what we Define
- 5:02today in terms of uh what companies like
- 5:06Microsoft and Nvidia and and uh meta are
- 5:10are we you know
- 5:13defining their companies to to work in
- 5:16this world
- 5:18already player one is an excellent movie
- 5:21to watch I think it's uh produced by you
- 5:24know it's Steven Spielberg's uh and so
- 5:28you know the the virtual world in here
- 5:31is called The Oasis and
- 5:34um not to give away too much but uh a
- 5:37person is going to uh basically own the
- 5:40Oasis if they can figure out uh
- 5:43something
- 5:44and the whole premise is how these
- 5:48people are going to try to figure out
- 5:50what this is
- 5:52um but essentially it's the same thing
- 5:54it's it's this virtual space or virtual
- 5:57world that you know here I guess in this
- 5:59picture of this person or protagonist
- 6:02putting having uh the VR glasses that he
- 6:05puts on on so forth right
- 6:08and again this came out in 2018
- 6:12um but you know
- 6:142020 is when this metaverse uh I you
- 6:18know sort of changed during the pandemic
- 6:21happened uh you know for for it to be
- 6:25you know uh changing the world that the
- 6:28real world and economy
- 6:31[Music]
- 6:31um
- 6:32so our games that we have today that
- 6:35we've talked about in the past are like
- 6:36fortnite and Minecraft
- 6:38um where you can create a virtual world
- 6:41yourself you know you can pick up
- 6:43fortnite and go uh to fortnite creative
- 6:46and in on your own Island you can you
- 6:49can create your own
- 6:51uh game that people can join in and play
- 6:55um
- 6:55they're fortnite creative Minecraft's
- 6:58the same sort of thing where you you
- 7:00create these experiences and uh you know
- 7:03have others come to play
- 7:06I I I'll go into more details a little
- 7:09bit more with this Roblox VR chat same
- 7:12thing where you know you you put on your
- 7:14your VR headset and actually you don't
- 7:16need to you can actually go
- 7:18um use use the app and
- 7:19[Music]
- 7:20um
- 7:21I forget which one steam maybe and and
- 7:24and log in without having to use a VR
- 7:26headset uh but uh you know it the
- 7:31experience is way different when you
- 7:32have the VR headset and and of course
- 7:34there's there's Grand Theft Auto where
- 7:36it's the same sort of thing where you
- 7:38can join the Grand Theft Auto World and
- 7:42drive around and interact with other
- 7:44people
- 7:45um you know in in in this virtual space
- 7:52so fortnite came in 2017 by epic games
- 7:57and it's interesting that epic games has
- 7:59uh Unreal Engine and is known for the
- 8:01AAA titles where their number one game
- 8:04is this cartoony foot
- 8:07um Battle Royale game that's made
- 8:10the company billions of dollars uh but
- 8:13the the premise of course is you select
- 8:16an avatar
- 8:17meet others on on an island and of
- 8:19course be the last person standing by
- 8:21defeating everybody all 99 other people
- 8:24but they've opened it up where we can
- 8:27have virtual concerts as well as uh
- 8:30in-game currency and purchases to to
- 8:32purchase skins and that's where they
- 8:34make the most money
- 8:36um
- 8:36so uh in 2021 uh they they got a billion
- 8:42dollars in fun funding just to support
- 8:44their their vision of what the metaverse
- 8:46is and then this past year 2022 they
- 8:50actually raised another two billion
- 8:51dollars again for for this concept of
- 8:54what the metaverse is going to be
- 8:57um you know so that's how big this is
- 8:59becoming where these companies are
- 9:01realizing that these game companies are
- 9:05uh the in the Forefront of what the
- 9:07internet is going to be
- 9:09of one of the most important things that
- 9:13you need to do in a metaverse is create
- 9:14your own avatar because that's who your
- 9:17persona is in uh in in a virtual space
- 9:21world uh and this is Kakashi Hatake from
- 9:26Naruto where I purchased I probably
- 9:28bought this a year ago or maybe actually
- 9:30a couple years ago maybe when it when it
- 9:32came out on on fortnite
- 9:34and he's got you know special abilities
- 9:37that he could have he uh he plays in in
- 9:40the anime but you don't you don't use
- 9:42any of those in in um you know the
- 9:45fortnite uh otherwise that would
- 9:47probably change the meta
- 9:49for it uh but Avatar is the first
- 9:52important thing that you need to have
- 9:55uh
- 9:56and with that Avatar you can go into a
- 10:00virtual concert here's one in February
- 10:022019 where marshmallow this is one of
- 10:04the earliest ones 10.7 million
- 10:06participants
- 10:08um I ran up on stage here with my with
- 10:10my avatar you know you know jumping
- 10:13around with the Avatar of marshmallow
- 10:15who is you know live performing which is
- 10:18it was really pretty incredible if I
- 10:19remember it was like about 10 10 15
- 10:21minutes long it was not that long but I
- 10:24was just blown away by this
- 10:26um I forget Pleasant Pleasant Valley I
- 10:28think is this where you where you had to
- 10:30go to
- 10:31um and then in 2020 uh Travis Scott had
- 10:34his virtual rap concert eclipsing the
- 10:3610.7 million to 12.3 million concurrent
- 10:39players so that's an amazing number of
- 10:41players playing one game in one virtual
- 10:45space or virtual world
- 10:49Ariana Grande same thing this is all
- 10:52around you know the 20 2019 time frame
- 10:55um you know where she had her Rift tour
- 10:57and uh but uh what I want to uh
- 11:01emphasize here is the ideas that uh what
- 11:05makes money for fortnite as well as
- 11:07Ariana Grande is these in-game purchases
- 11:09right using virtual bucks or V bucks and
- 11:13the the metaverse as well as any other
- 11:16type currency that people are going to
- 11:20use to purchase things
- 11:22um has to be defined and uh converted so
- 11:26basically there's X number of of V bucks
- 11:29is worth one dollar or a penny or
- 11:31however you know monetary uh ratio you
- 11:35want to use for this um I want to say a
- 11:37thousand V bucks is 10 bucks maybe no
- 11:40that sounds kind of high I forget what
- 11:42it is I've played fortnite and over a
- 11:45while now since I probably did this so
- 11:47probably a couple years now
- 11:50um but here with with your with your
- 11:52in-game purchasing the money that you
- 11:54choose to use your V bucks you can
- 11:55you'll get uh for 2800 V bucks you'll
- 11:58get the Avatar of Ariana Grande outfit
- 12:00and um I think at the same time there
- 12:03was a space one too that you could
- 12:05purchase and and uh even space.com you
- 12:09know was was advertising the you know
- 12:11the Ariana Grande space
- 12:14uh skin
- 12:15you can get a back back bling which is a
- 12:18backpack
- 12:20um and an emote that you can you can use
- 12:22to to taunt other players and so forth
- 12:25as well as this glider uh that you can
- 12:28you can carry correct that might be the
- 12:30glider right there
- 12:33um I don't I don't know but in any of
- 12:35that uh
- 12:37those are the different items that you
- 12:39purchase with your v-bucks that you can
- 12:41now use in game
- 12:43um not everybody has played fortnite
- 12:47um but if you if you've got uh you know
- 12:50kids even even today uh I had stopped
- 12:54playing and and I would talk to uh other
- 12:57parents who who has kids and and they're
- 12:59eight year olds and nine-year-olds are
- 13:01playing fortnite so they're getting you
- 13:03know brought into this this world
- 13:08um
- 13:09another example is Minecraft so fortnite
- 13:11Minecraft is this the metaverse same
- 13:15thing you can create a Minecraft world
- 13:17and invite friends to join in
- 13:19okay so uh again you need a avatar you
- 13:24create a world you can rent a server
- 13:26where uh you know players from around
- 13:29the world can either play on your
- 13:30private one where you set up only
- 13:33players you uh you you you allowed to
- 13:36join can play or open it up as a public
- 13:39one
- 13:40um
- 13:41so basically a Minecraft server is a
- 13:44metaverse
- 13:45as defined so you have an avatar you
- 13:49have
- 13:50um you have a world that you can go into
- 13:52now later on we'll talk about economy
- 13:55and currencies which you you go in to
- 13:58use to purchase things
- 14:00[Music]
- 14:00um
- 14:01so but in general this is sort of the
- 14:04the you know the the basis of what
- 14:06Minecraft
- 14:07server should have as as a metaverse
- 14:13VR chat is yet another one
- 14:16um you create an avatar again a VR chat
- 14:19world that people can go into and and
- 14:21and chat
- 14:23um and and congregate and uh you know I
- 14:26actually tried it and it was not very
- 14:31um I got kind of triggered by it because
- 14:33people in there were were you know toxic
- 14:36they were you know rude and and not nice
- 14:39and I would not have uh kids go into you
- 14:43know VR chat there's just it was it was
- 14:47really
- 14:48um eye-opening in terms of how how uh
- 14:52people change now you know uh and V you
- 14:56could by creating your custom avatar you
- 14:58can be anybody you know you can be the
- 15:00the you can be the Energizer Bunny
- 15:02inside uh you know VR chat or even in in
- 15:05any of the other you know um
- 15:09metaverse worlds okay so so you know
- 15:13male female you know uh gender doesn't
- 15:17really matter in in in this world uh
- 15:20just like even in Grand Theft Auto
- 15:23um same thing
- 15:26um you know but uh basically still you
- 15:28can you can you can have your you can
- 15:30create your VR chat world and and your
- 15:32avatar and then have other people come
- 15:35in and use it right 25 000 Community
- 15:37created worlds and growing so there's 25
- 15:40000 worlds that that you can join
- 15:44um at least the public ones
- 15:47I don't know if you you can actually
- 15:48create private VR chat rooms uh but uh
- 15:52hopefully there are some good ones out
- 15:54there I would suspect there's some good
- 15:55ones out there I thought this was
- 15:56interesting that this this DJ uh had her
- 16:00own
- 16:01um Underground
- 16:03uh chat room that basically playing her
- 16:06DJ music in it and if you like that
- 16:07music that you know uh emo type music
- 16:13um
- 16:14roadblocks so same thing you can go off
- 16:18and create your your avatar in here but
- 16:20more importantly you can create a Roblox
- 16:22place or a world and in fact
- 16:26um we played uh games with a bunch of my
- 16:28students uh playing two of them um
- 16:31Arsenal and uh what was the other one
- 16:35called
- 16:36um
- 16:36evade
- 16:39and uh yeah right here arsenaline evade
- 16:41so Arsenal is a game that somebody made
- 16:44or a group created uh as a first person
- 16:48shooter type type type world within
- 16:51Roblox okay so Roblox is is a Creator
- 16:54tool right that allows you to create any
- 16:57game that you might can possibly
- 16:59conceive and in this case Arsenal it was
- 17:01a lot of fun actually I liked I actually
- 17:03like playing Arsenal as a first person
- 17:05game because you can just go in and and
- 17:07you know
- 17:09um uh
- 17:11have conflict I'll call it that way and
- 17:15then if you uh get eliminated you can
- 17:19just go right back in you know there's
- 17:20no there's there's no consequences no
- 17:22waiting
- 17:24um you know if you play fortnite if you
- 17:27know you you you could you could hide
- 17:29for 20 minutes and then finally die at
- 17:32the end or or you can you can die almost
- 17:34immediately you still have to rejoin
- 17:36another game kind of thing and it takes
- 17:38takes are used to take a long while just
- 17:41to get back in that kind of thing
- 17:43um but as a first person game that was
- 17:45just fun to play with a bunch you know
- 17:48there was about a dozen of us playing
- 17:51um I created my own private server
- 17:53and this is it right here hopefully you
- 17:55folks can see it you know I I guess I
- 17:58still own it um
- 18:00and uh created my own private server and
- 18:03I paid I think five dollars a month or
- 18:05whatever it is to uh
- 18:09Robux or whatever so 100 Robux per month
- 18:14um that I can have you folks play if you
- 18:17wanted to so that's one in Arsenal as
- 18:20well as this other one evade and evade
- 18:24as a game where uh it's sort of like a I
- 18:27call it a horror type game where you you
- 18:30get uh uh basically jpegs chasing after
- 18:34you and you have to you have to avoid or
- 18:37evade
- 18:39um while I actually doing some other
- 18:40type tasks uh and and not get caught so
- 18:44it's it's really it was a lot of fun to
- 18:46play
- 18:47um but somebody created this and
- 18:50obviously this game is way different
- 18:52than this Arsenal game
- 18:55um
- 18:55but these are just worlds people
- 18:57conceive you know they create their own
- 18:59assets that that are going to be in this
- 19:02world and then publish it so that people
- 19:04can join or in this case they're
- 19:06actually making money because roadblocks
- 19:09is is uh is uh allowing them to make to
- 19:13make money
- 19:14um
- 19:15I thought this was actually interesting
- 19:17uh that that uh we talked about Chipotle
- 19:22before uh where now Chipotle uh wants to
- 19:26drive consumers to Chipotle
- 19:29um and they're creating this uh Roblox
- 19:32world or their Chipotle world within
- 19:36Roblox where you can earn uh money or
- 19:41Robux for for free Chipotle
- 19:45okay
- 19:46so uh this is what is happening you know
- 19:50you've got this uh we'll we'll let
- 19:53consumers use their virtual burrito
- 19:55building skills to earn coupons for free
- 19:57Chipotle food in real life
- 20:00it's just yet another way of having
- 20:03customer engagement
- 20:06okay and using uh I'll use it kind of
- 20:09loosely metaverse technology
- 20:12to drive more customers to their place
- 20:18in this case the brick and mortar where
- 20:20they can buy the burrito or in this case
- 20:21get a free burrito right
- 20:24on the first hundred thousand players to
- 20:27successfully roll a burrito will be able
- 20:29to earn a free Entree okay so this is uh
- 20:32this is was done you know in April
- 20:35um but it there's just a lot of this
- 20:38that that is happening
- 20:41um
- 20:42when it comes to using a game
- 20:45like Roblox and having consumers use it
- 20:49to uh you know in the corporate world
- 20:52so
- 20:54uh Roblox metaverse uh okay and now
- 20:58let's just talk about the worlds
- 21:00themselves so uh we that was that was uh
- 21:03you know basically a few different video
- 21:07games we'll just you know from from the
- 21:09original video game
- 21:12um definition to this metavis metaverse
- 21:16world uh where they are not necessarily
- 21:19thought of as a video game like
- 21:21decentral land or the sandbox or
- 21:24insomnium space uh but these are places
- 21:28where folks can actually
- 21:31um you know have a real world like
- 21:35experiences in the virtual world uh
- 21:38everything from
- 21:40you know visiting a bar say or
- 21:43purchasing shoes you know they can do
- 21:46all of this in these metaverse worlds
- 21:55so uh decentraland uh came available
- 22:00February 2020 somnium space 2021
- 22:04um the sandbox was here in 2012 so it's
- 22:06been around a long time and uh the
- 22:09original metaverse platform I'll call it
- 22:11maybe I should list it here is a second
- 22:13life and that was in 2003.
- 22:17um you know so basically these are just
- 22:19World experiences that people can go
- 22:21into and live a life in this virtual
- 22:25world and when I say live a life it does
- 22:27everything that you might uh want to do
- 22:29you know uh create uh you know bought
- 22:32purchase a house living and live live in
- 22:36a
- 22:38a uh a building that you that you can
- 22:42you know you you can uh uh grow uh
- 22:46within the term grow uh within this uh
- 22:51metabus metaverse world
- 22:54and one thing that is available is that
- 22:56that these are these
- 22:58uh metaverse platforms are free to use
- 23:02so you can go in there and and uh create
- 23:05things in in these metaverse platforms
- 23:08uh and do it for free
- 23:11um but once you you you start building
- 23:14things and and uh having other folks use
- 23:18your your uh your world it could be
- 23:21whatever uh say for instance you are an
- 23:24artist and you wanted to create a bunch
- 23:28of of uh digital art that you want to
- 23:31display in your art your Your decentral
- 23:34Land Art Gallery well you can go ahead
- 23:36and do that and then charge people to
- 23:39buy your art within this uh the central
- 23:42land space
- 23:44um
- 23:45and of course what happens is the
- 23:47central end will get their cut from the
- 23:50amount of money that you get and I've
- 23:52actually got uh some interesting
- 23:56um decentral land type type worlds that
- 23:59I'll be showing you
- 24:01uh and uh how this works is that there's
- 24:05uh it uses the technology of called a
- 24:08blockchain to ensure security of data so
- 24:10everything that goes into these these
- 24:13metaverse types platforms like the
- 24:16central insomnium space and sandbox is
- 24:19way different from fortnite uh Minecraft
- 24:23and Roblox in the sense that they're
- 24:26they use uh blockchain to make it so
- 24:29that they can guarantee anything that
- 24:31you purchase can be um
- 24:34uh is is yours to keep unlike Kakashi's
- 24:39uh a skin that I purchased in fortnite I
- 24:43can't I can't sell it to anybody
- 24:47um at least not legally I guess uh but
- 24:49uh you know within these worlds if you
- 24:52purchase something in the central land
- 24:54you can actually go back out to the
- 24:55marketplace and and sell that piece of
- 24:58art you purchased for a a profit
- 25:02um within the game
- 25:03so uh blockchain ensures the security of
- 25:06all of this now nfts guarantee the
- 25:09uniqueness so it may the nfts are
- 25:13non-fungible tokens and that allows you
- 25:15to go off and uh build uh a a portfolio
- 25:20of of digital art say that you that you
- 25:24own somebody could screenshot what you
- 25:26have but if somebody does that
- 25:27you can sue them
- 25:29um because you you you've owned uh the
- 25:32uh the the the the digital art you as
- 25:36guaranteed by the nft and put on the
- 25:39blockchain to ensure the security of it
- 25:42so uh you can move your nft to other
- 25:45places
- 25:46and it'll be the same
- 25:49um
- 25:49and you still own it
- 25:51cryptocurrency for economy transactions
- 25:54specifically uh uh ethereum uh and you
- 25:59can you can go on you know in in the
- 26:02stock market and buy ethereum for some
- 26:04price I can't remember it's kind of high
- 26:06thousands thousands of dollars uh for
- 26:09for one ethereum
- 26:11um
- 26:12but that gives you this is It's the
- 26:15currency that is used within these uh
- 26:18these metaverse platforms okay
- 26:21um it's nice thing is that it's trade up
- 26:23a decentralized Marketplace so you know
- 26:26decentralized meaning that you know you
- 26:28can use it anywhere within this world
- 26:30and it's still guaranteed that if you
- 26:33buy it you get to keep it and if you
- 26:36sell it then you make that purchase you
- 26:38you get the money for that
- 26:40um and it's guaranteed
- 26:42put down your cross platform VR capable
- 26:45but it doesn't necessarily have to be VR
- 26:47it could be a you know a web 3 based
- 26:50website that that um uses this but if
- 26:54you have VR uh or ar it just makes it
- 26:57that much more immersive with those
- 26:59Technologies
- 27:04so let's talk a little bit about
- 27:06decentraland.org okay so this is a uh
- 27:10a a place that you can you can go to
- 27:14um that
- 27:16uh
- 27:17it's it's free to to go to it let's see
- 27:20right here right create explore and
- 27:22trade in the first Earth ever virtual
- 27:24world owned by its users so everything
- 27:27in there is owned by whoever bought buys
- 27:31a piece of land in this world so welcome
- 27:34to decentraland
- 27:36um lose yourself in an amazing evolving
- 27:38world so explore lands owned by the
- 27:41users to experience incredible scenes
- 27:44and structures so this is what makes it
- 27:46uh very different than
- 27:49um fortnite say you know or playing
- 27:51Grand Theft Auto you can actually go in
- 27:54there and I want to say that decentral
- 27:56land you can buy a piece of parcel land
- 27:59for uh 20 256 meters by 256 meters
- 28:04square parcel land and then build
- 28:06something on it and then once you build
- 28:09something on that land you can sell it
- 28:11and people buy this land it's crazy what
- 28:14what people are buying and selling in
- 28:16the central land
- 28:19um so this three this is from their uh
- 28:22description here is a digital game that
- 28:24mimics reality in three-dimensional
- 28:26format it's user-owned ethereum based
- 28:30virtual reality World platform so
- 28:32ethereum is the uh is the crypto
- 28:34currency that that uses uh uh and it's
- 28:38open world meta versus combination of
- 28:40virtual reality augmented reality and
- 28:42the internet
- 28:43it allows users to be part of a shared
- 28:45digital experience in which they play
- 28:47games exchange Collectibles buy and sell
- 28:51digital real estate or wearables for
- 28:54Avatar socialize and interact with each
- 28:56other so
- 28:58um they were saying that there's uh you
- 29:01know they were claiming a lot more but
- 29:02what I can only find is that right now
- 29:04there's 8 000 active daily users
- 29:08um and you compare this with Left 4 Dead
- 29:102 which I actually just purchased and
- 29:12they have about 10 000
- 29:14um average daily users of this metaverse
- 29:18platform in this case the central land
- 29:21uh so but the difference here is that in
- 29:23Left 4 Dead you could just play the game
- 29:25and and leave it here if you're playing
- 29:28in the central land there's 8 000 of you
- 29:30that you can actually share with this
- 29:32digital experience
- 29:34um and sell sell where is there if you
- 29:36wanted to or buy land uh if you wanted
- 29:39to
- 29:44so again Minecraft Roblox fortnite you
- 29:48know very non-centralized that I guess
- 29:51the you know decentralized uh is the
- 29:54term so here you it's still a metaverse
- 29:57like
- 29:58environment where you create an avatar
- 30:00you can plan congregate in the virtual
- 30:02world you can build new worlds and you
- 30:04can purchase items right so I mentioned
- 30:06this Kakashi skin that I purchased you
- 30:09know but I can't sell it to anybody once
- 30:12I buy it
- 30:13uh fortnite Slash epic games own my
- 30:16money okay it's a one-way deal
- 30:20[Music]
- 30:20um
- 30:21which is way different than say uh the
- 30:24metaverse economy and transactions here
- 30:25where cryptocurrency and digital
- 30:28currency uh is used in this case
- 30:31ethereum which uh decentral land uses
- 30:34that guarantees that I can now uh if I
- 30:39buy a piece of land in decentral land uh
- 30:42I can sell it and get real money back
- 30:45okay so uh and ether ether is what it's
- 30:48called I think whatever let's let's
- 30:50let's say I get back one ether I can
- 30:53actually go into the marketplace
- 30:57and um and and uh I trade my ether for a
- 31:03dollar for for dollar bills or I I want
- 31:05to say it's like three thousand dollars
- 31:07or something uh maybe I can I can uh
- 31:10look it up here uh but but yeah so
- 31:13that's what this cryptocurrency is all
- 31:16about in digital currency it's it's you
- 31:18know you could you can use it elsewhere
- 31:20right if if maybe one day fortnite
- 31:23starts using
- 31:25um uh you know
- 31:27ethereum cryptocurrency or or Bitcoin
- 31:30with within fortnite then we can maybe
- 31:34trade my Kakashi uh
- 31:38um skin for something else
- 31:39uh yeah so but obviously
- 31:43um you know you could just go and buy it
- 31:45yourself if you want to
- 31:47um but it's not unique uh where if it
- 31:50was made unique then it would have to be
- 31:52stuck uh an nft has to be attached to it
- 31:55so that I can only there's only one
- 31:58kakeshi Sensei that that I owe
- 32:06uh so we talked about uh
- 32:09the cryptocurrency and the economy to uh
- 32:14making digital objects unique okay so
- 32:18that basically there's only one like it
- 32:20in the virtual world in any world okay
- 32:23so if you if you purchase this in in
- 32:27um
- 32:27on open C say or or someplace like that
- 32:31some one of these you know nft
- 32:33marketplaces you are the only one that
- 32:35owns this particular piece of art
- 32:38um some people have been making millions
- 32:40of dollars just creating art like this
- 32:43pixel art right here I forgot where I
- 32:45got I think I probably got it on
- 32:46Wikipedia
- 32:48um but there's basically even though I
- 32:50made a copy of this somebody owns the
- 32:52original copy of of this pixel art okay
- 32:55right down here
- 32:57nfps came out in the world as in 2012
- 33:02um anything non-fungible means that it
- 33:05is unique and cannot be replaced so by
- 33:07the original Mona Lisa painting no one
- 33:08else has that original
- 33:10okay so yeah you can take a picture of
- 33:12Mona Lisa
- 33:13um but the original is owned by you know
- 33:16I don't know it's in Louvre or something
- 33:18like that
- 33:20um but that's the sort of the example
- 33:22here right only one uh say one Picasso
- 33:27we bought an original Picasso you own
- 33:29that right now same thing with this
- 33:32pixel art you own this pixel art
- 33:35um and uh because the nft guarantees it
- 33:39and then what happens is you you put
- 33:41that nft on the blockchain and that that
- 33:44guarantees that it it it's secure
- 33:47so um wherever it goes within within the
- 33:51blockchain within the the the metaverse
- 33:54so
- 33:58um again so blockchain here is the
- 34:00system that securely records and stores
- 34:01the information and transactions right
- 34:04so uh from this pixel art to buying
- 34:09virtual shoes to
- 34:12uh buying uh land on the central land
- 34:15these uh nfts are are each each one of
- 34:19these uh digital objects has an nft
- 34:22associated with it and the blockchain is
- 34:25The Ledger that securely records and
- 34:28stores the information of these
- 34:29transactions okay so there's there's
- 34:32basically the paper trail for where
- 34:34these things came from and where they
- 34:36belong
- 34:37um
- 34:38so here the nft and ethereum is the
- 34:42cryptocurrency
- 34:43uh so very important in terms of the
- 34:47economy for the metaverse
- 34:50here's virtual art
- 34:52so virtual art what is it where you at
- 34:55some Marketplace like in the virtual
- 34:57Mall you go to a virtual auction in this
- 35:00case South B's digital art fair
- 35:02September 30th 2021 and you can buy this
- 35:05machine hallucinate hallucinations that
- 35:08was created by an artist and uh bought
- 35:11it for 3.1 million Asian
- 35:15um at the time for this piece of digital
- 35:18art
- 35:19okay uh just just crazy somebody bought
- 35:23some uh some art for 64 million dollars
- 35:28um
- 35:28but that's what you can do and and you
- 35:31can go on uh
- 35:33you know these auctions and buy the the
- 35:36this art and be able to play it and
- 35:39stand in it kind of thing
- 35:42um
- 35:43so
- 35:44uh here's virtual real estate and that's
- 35:47what we're talking about with decentral
- 35:49land and I think this was somnamium
- 35:51actually when I pulled this so you know
- 35:54here here's this land area that you can
- 35:57you if you have have your avatar that
- 35:59could look be like your likeness or
- 36:02somebody else that you want to be heck
- 36:04you might
- 36:05um if I wanted to I could look like Brad
- 36:06Pitt in in this world
- 36:09um so uh but uh you know in this virtual
- 36:13world you can go in here and create real
- 36:15estate online and then sell it
- 36:18as you create this land
- 36:21um so it's kind of kind of a cool
- 36:23concept
- 36:25um but uh is it real right now you know
- 36:28is it are we still in the adoptive and
- 36:31adoption phase I don't know you know but
- 36:34it certainly has gone crazy in terms of
- 36:36their uh importance and and money that
- 36:39they that that these you know companies
- 36:42are making with these virtual land and
- 36:44virtual real estate
- 36:46okay so uh in early 2022
- 36:51um
- 36:52104 million 105 million dollars for just
- 36:56four metaverse projects okay that's just
- 36:59for four that somebody purchased
- 37:02um sandbox
- 37:04um originally was dominating when I did
- 37:06this and this was like you know earlier
- 37:08this this year
- 37:10um I probably should update this but 86
- 37:12billion dollars in nft sales
- 37:15the central land is in second place okay
- 37:19um but it's it's it's making a
- 37:21difference people are buying luxury
- 37:23Yachts on sale I thought I saw one
- 37:27just the other day I think it was three
- 37:30million dollars somebody bought a yacht
- 37:31in
- 37:33um and uh
- 37:35decentral land I think it was
- 37:38three million dollars for digital art
- 37:40dig a digital yacht
- 37:45so here it is you know here's salmonium
- 37:47as an example you can go into the VR
- 37:49Mode live using
- 37:51um the the uh
- 37:53Oculus Quest
- 37:56um or a United called meta Quest I guess
- 37:59it is right uh so here it's open social
- 38:02virtual world and so forth uh it's on
- 38:05blockchain so everything is
- 38:09um you know uh guaranteed and and uh in
- 38:14The Ledger
- 38:15so and you can create your own world if
- 38:18you wanted to all this and insomnium
- 38:20space but basically it's what you can
- 38:23still look at it as a video game but
- 38:24it's beyond that you know they don't
- 38:26they don't say you know it's a video
- 38:28game because it sounds cheapening right
- 38:31that uh uh somebody's buying you know
- 38:35tens of millions of dollars in Virtual
- 38:38land in a video game doesn't sound too
- 38:41good but if you say if you call it
- 38:43virtual space
- 38:45um or virtual platform then you're
- 38:47buying it in uh you know that sounds a
- 38:51little bit better
- 38:53uh
- 38:54so your sandbox
- 38:5786 million in nft sales but obviously
- 38:59this has probably gone up since I wrote
- 39:01this probably should put a date in it
- 39:06[Music]
- 39:08so that's
- 39:09uh the platforms and then here are
- 39:12commercial companies here's Nike that
- 39:15came out uh with crypto kicks so this
- 39:19piece of generic Nike Dunk Genesis
- 39:22there's different versions of these that
- 39:25you that are unique just by a tiny bit
- 39:28that you can own and an nft guarantees
- 39:31that you are the only one and only
- 39:33digital art owner of this shoe
- 39:37okay so there were uh the equivalent of
- 39:41buying one of these shoes between four
- 39:44and ninety five hundred dollars per pair
- 39:46and the uh Marketplace was called open C
- 39:49is called open C uh and you can you can
- 39:53buy all kinds of things in there that
- 39:55you know the big one was that that
- 39:56monkey art
- 39:58um that uh
- 40:01let's see something's wrong with my
- 40:05look let's see I know
- 40:10um and uh you know there were nine
- 40:14thousand night Nike Dunk Genesis and
- 40:17she's had been sold at this time
- 40:20um you know I don't remember again I
- 40:22don't know exactly remember when uh what
- 40:25those were
- 40:26uh but uh you can go to openc right here
- 40:30open C and then come over here and and
- 40:33buy this land
- 40:35right here so this land is on um
- 40:39decentralized the decentral land
- 40:42and you can buy one world for 0.8999 I
- 40:47will not add to my cart
- 40:49because I that could be two thousand
- 40:51dollars
- 40:53um I don't you got I'm gonna have to
- 40:55look up what the exchange rate is for
- 40:57this ether ethereum
- 41:00um
- 41:01uh but uh you know
- 41:05let's see uh if I can search for a Nike
- 41:10uh Nike shoe on open c
- 41:13and uh
- 41:16here's Nike apparel
- 41:19uh Nike
- 41:22shoes
- 41:25Genesis I guess I should look for let's
- 41:28go
- 41:29dumped Genesis
- 41:35okay and then it's literally here they
- 41:37are so this uh this one sold for 21
- 41:40ethereum
- 41:42okay 1845 ethereum
- 41:45wow this is 45 ethereum so this is the
- 41:49number one
- 41:51um
- 41:52so 1.5
- 41:54000 one and a half that one one one
- 41:56thousand five hundred dollars
- 41:58um 1.25 so it's about a hundred dollars
- 42:01or I'm sorry a thousand dollars per
- 42:04ethereum
- 42:05so you can buy this if you like
- 42:10um and that's up to you
- 42:13uh but uh you can go go grab it so
- 42:16somebody owned it
- 42:18um you could probably find this
- 42:19particular version of it somewhere in uh
- 42:22open c
- 42:24foreign
- 42:25but nuts
- 42:30uh and nice thing is that you can at
- 42:33least what what it should come down to
- 42:35is just like you buy your you wear your
- 42:38Nikes in the real world
- 42:40you should be able to write Warrior and
- 42:42Nikes in the central land and uh so
- 42:46hopefully that's what it's going to come
- 42:47to but companies like like Nvidia are
- 42:51creating tools that allows you to be
- 42:53able to you know collaborate on using
- 42:56different types of
- 42:58um modeling tools hopefully it'll it'll
- 43:00do the same for you know I should be
- 43:03able to use this Nike shoe into Central
- 43:05land as easily as in
- 43:09on the insomnium say for instance uh but
- 43:13uh this is
- 43:15worth 130 000 right here I'm not you
- 43:19know this looks so similar to this one
- 43:21actually uh but who knows what the
- 43:24difference is this could have been the
- 43:26original right here
- 43:28um and you can but you can buy this Nike
- 43:31shoe instead of you know buying Nikes
- 43:33for 60 bucks
- 43:35one thousand five hundred ninety two
- 43:37dollars and 27 cents
- 43:45oh that's the metaverse uh in terms of
- 43:48consumers and how it's playing around in
- 43:50our in our world of of uh of games and
- 43:55and how we're how we're learning to play
- 43:57in in different ways now
- 44:00um
- 44:01so
- 44:03all right
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