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What is the Metaverse?
The metaverse is a 3D virtual world accessed using virtual and augmented reality headsets, but it's also accessible from ordinary computers and mobile devices, which will give you access to the metaverse, but in 2D. The metaverse is the next logical step in your social media experience. It integrates many aspects of social media into a three-dimensional world where the user is represented by an avatar.
Encounters aren't the only way in which the metaverse will change our world. It will also have a direct impact on your workplace.
Here are a few examples:
1. Meetings and conferences
Avatars and holograms will dramatically reduce meeting and conference costs for businesses. Why Elon Musk Would he take his private jet to Shanghai to check on the Gigafactory's production efficiency when he could simply teleport himself and walk around with his engineers?
2. New jobs
The metaverse will radically change existing jobs and create new ones. Jobs that previously required face-to-face interaction will suddenly have virtual options, meaning that freelancing and remote working opportunities will grow exponentially.
3. Job interviews could change dramatically
Every now and then, a blog comes out boldly proclaiming the end of the CV, cover letter and résumé. Usually, these predictions turn out to be a little too inaccurate.
The metaverse may not lead to the extinction of the CV as an application document, but it could fundamentally change the format of job applications and the job search process.
4. Remote working could become more human
The rise of remote working has helped redefine the way we work. design of work and our jobs in the 21st century. It has prompted us to reflect on issues such as work-life balance, the nature of the management and trust between managers and employees.
A key unanswered question when it comes to remote working is: how can we make it seem more "real"? In other words, how can we make it seem less cold and isolated, and more human?
5. Soldier training
The U.S. Army is already training its soldiers in metavers, in partnership with Microsoft. Instead of planning missions using mock-up terrain models, Microsoft is building helmets that will enable soldiers to see where they are and what's around them by projecting holographic images, three-dimensional terrain maps and a compass into their field of vision.
6. Medical surgery
One day, a cardiologist in Paris will perform open-heart surgery on a patient in Chicago using precision robots. This will be based on 5G reliable in both locations and on a precision robot in the Chicago hospital, which the Paris doctor will operate using a VR device.
7. Salaries will be paid in crypto-currencies
A metaverse is a strange place. Many old-world rules and norms simply won't apply, and one of them is fiat currency. Crypto-currencies are already the preferred method for buying and selling virtual objects in the metaverse, rather than dollars and euros.
Governments play virtually no role in the metaverse, so this trend is irreversible. Therefore, in the future, it will make sense for employees to be paid in crypto-currencies.
How will the Metaverse evolve?
The workplace of the 2020s is already very different from what we might have imagined just a few years ago: the rise of remote and hybrid working has truly altered expectations about why, where and how work should be done. But the history of transformation of the workplace doesn't stop there.
Nobody really knows what it will look like, but everyone agrees that it's coming soon, and that it will fundamentally affect the way we work. Exactly what form it will take, and how we'll interact with it, is still up for debate.
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