Is #metaverse just a hype in Bangalore, India’s own Silicon Valley?

Since #covid no one really cared about Mark Zuckerberg until he deliver an hour-long presentation on Facebook’s rebrand—it is now called Meta—and its newfound focus on building the “metaverse”: a vast and integrated virtual world. Suddenly, no evening in Bangalore pub is complete without a reference to #metaverse. Is India’s silicon valley poised for the slow but inevitable change in tech landscape.

So what is Metaverse?

The term was first coined by Author Neal Stephenson in 1992 in his sci-fi novel “Snow Crash”. The book featured avatars almost identical to living beings who met in virtual 3D buildings and other simulated virtual environment.

The modern day Metaverse, the one that Zuckerberg and Nadela want to pioneer, is a lot like the representation in the book. How we use internet today is under a massive transformation. In the coming years, the world will be surfing internet build up of augmented and virtual reality with 3D holographic avatars, completely changing the way we communicate on texts, calls and video calls in the present.

Microsoft coming up next

If you haven’t heard about Microsoft Mesh platform, you are living under a rock. The company through its Mesh vertical is already creating holograms and building extended reality (XR) applications that bring the real and augmented world together. The company has already revealed its plan to introduce its mixed-reality elements like holograms and virtual avatars to Microsoft Teams.

Impressively, Microsoft is working with U.S. Army to build augmented reality Hololens 2 headsets for training and rehearing the soldiers in fight.

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