Metaverse

Metaverse is a vast and complex ecosystem that can introduce people to the virtual world.
It contains several layers that are crucial for its functionality. This chapter will help us to
understand the utility and functionality of 7 layers of the metaverse.

What is 7 Layer Model?

The 7-layer model is a framework that provides a seamless view of the functionality and
working of the metaverse. This model allows us to understand the components and
technologies that make the metaverse. Each layer of this model has its own specific
functionality and plays a crucial role in creating an effective visual experience.

7 Layers of The Metaverse

Experience Layer

Discovery Layer
Creator Economy Layer

Spatial Computing Layer

Decentralization Layer

Human Interface Layer

Infrastructure Layer
Experience Layer
It is one of the crucial layers of the Metaverse 7-Layer model that allows users to have
immersive interaction within virtual environments. It includes various activities such as
gaming, socialising, shopping, and many more by using technologies like virtual reality
(VR) and augmented reality (AR).

Key Functionalities of Experience Layer

Immersive Environments: It creates three-dimensional environments where users

can interact, connect, and explore things.

Interactivity: Allows users to interact with digital objects and things through
gestures and voice commands.

Social Interaction: Facilitates communication and collaboration through avatars and

chat features, fostering community.

Multi-Platform Integration: Provides seamless access across different devices and

platforms.

Discovery Layer
This layer of metaverse allows users to navigate and find the relevant content in the
virtual environment. It has functions like 'map' and 'directory' for exploring different
virtual spaces, events, and social interactions.

Key Functionalities of Discovery Layer

Search Engines: It has specialized functionality for finding specific content,

experiences, or users.

Spatial Navigation: It allows users to navigate around the virtual environment and
discover interesting things.
Recommendation Systems: These systems suggest content that users might like
based on their interests.
Social Networks: These systems allow users to connect with friends, family, and
other users.

Creator Economy Layer

The metaverse creator economy layer is a system that helps creators make, share, and earn
money from their work in the metaverse.
Key Functionalities of Creator Economy Layer

Content Creation Tools: These platforms helps creators make and build virtual
experiences, items, and places.
Monetization Options: These platforms give creators different ways to make
money, like selling digital items, charging for experiences, or getting tips and
donations.

Marketplace: A platform where creators can display and sell their work, enabling
users to buy or trade digital items.

Collaboration Opportunities: Tools that let creators work together on projects,

share resources, and create content as a team.

Spatial Computing Layer

This layer of the metaverse enables the merging of digital data with the real world by
utilizing technologies like virtual and augmented reality. It allows users to interact with
three-dimensional real-time objects and creates an immersive experience.

Key Functionalities of Spatial Computing Layer

3D Interaction: This layer allows seamless 3D interaction between digital objects in
real-time, enabling a more immersive experience.
Environment Mapping: This layer enables the merging of digital data with the real
world, enhancing the user's ability to navigate and interact seamlessly within both
environments.

Real-Time Data Processing: This layer supports real-time data processing,

allowing immediate feedback and interaction. This is essential for applications such
as gaming, virtual conferences, and collaborative environments.
Augmented and Virtual Reality Integration: This layer combines AR and VR
technologies to create engaging experiences. Users can explore virtual worlds that
react to their movements and actions.

Decentralization Layer
The decentralization layer in the metaverse ensures that control and ownership are being
distributed among the users rather than focusing on a single entity. This allows users to
own virtual items and take part in decision-making.

Key Functionalities of Decentralization Layer

Ownership and Control: This layer allows users to take control and ownership of
their digital assets, such as virtual land and items, without dependence on
centralized authorities.
 Transparent Transactions: This layer allows transparent transactions, ensuring
transactions are secure, verified, and transparent.

Decentralized Governance: This layer provides decentralized governance, which

means it distributes ownership and control among the users, eliminating the need for
centralized authorities.
Privacy Protection: This layer ensures the privacy of users by providing many
privacy protection assumptions and eliminates the risk of data breaches.

Human Interface Layer

This layer in the metaverse includes some gadgets and devices that help users interact
with virtual worlds. This layer features tools like virtual reality (VR) headsets, augmented
reality (AR) glasses, wearables, biosensors, and many more.

Key Functionalities of Human Interface Layer

Immersive Experiences: Creates fully immersive environments with VR and adds

digital content to the real world using AR.

User Input and Control: Allows users interact using gestures, voice commands,
and regular controls for easy navigation.

User Experience Design: Focuses on creating easy-to-use and friendly interfaces to

make things simpler and more enjoyable for users.

Integration with Physical Devices: Connects with smartphones and wearables for
enhanced functionality.

Infrastructure Layer
The infrastructure layer of the metaverse allows users to build, run, and manage virtual
spaces. It includes the technologies and systems that allow smooth interactions and
experiences in the metaverse.

Key Functionalities of Infrastructure Layer

Scalability: This layer provides scalability, which means that the system can handle
more users and data without slowing down, even when a lot of people are using it at
the same time.

Low Latency: This layer reduces delays in sending data, which is important for real-
time interactions, especially in games with many players.

Data Storage and Management: This offers strong systems for storing, finding,
and handling a lot of user-created content and activities, making sure everything is
kept safe between sessions.

Content Delivery: This layer uses networks to quickly share digital content, making
sure users around the world can access it fast and have a smooth experience.
History of Metaverse
The first thing to know about the metaverse is that the word was coined by Neal
Stephenson in 1992. The word was primly mentioned in his science fiction novel 'Snow
Crash'. He imagined a 21st-century dystopian future ‫ هضتحبل بتئسش فت البتنى الحتئي والعشتنني‬as a
medium for people to escape from their reality just as displayed in 'The Matrix', though
with a dye of unwillingness ‫صلغة عدم النغلة‬.
In the last past decade, virtual reality has been the most popular and fascinating
technology, and now Metaverse is emerging in modern times Metaverse ‫ًشت فت العصتن الحتدن‬.
This technology is the next level of VR. It provides a 3D digital experience, and it
combines the physical world with the virtual world. Many businesses are adopting
Metaverse technology in their business.

What is the Metaverse Virtual Reality?

The Metaverse is an online, open, shared, persistent, three-dimensional virtual reality
that allows people to connect from all parts of their lives. It would link many platforms,
same as how the World Wide Web connects several websites using one browser.

Why Virtual Reality is called Metaverse?

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992). The term metaverse was coined in Neal
Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, where humans, as programmable
avatars, interact with each other and software agents in a three-dimensional virtual
space that uses the metaphor of the real world ‫حي نحفئع اللشتن ك فئجتئ قئبت لللنهجتة هت بعضتمن‬
‫اللعض وه وكالء اللنهجيئت ف هضئحة افحناضية ثالثية األبعئي جضحخدم اصحعئ ة العئلن الحبيب‬.

How do you explain the Metaverse?

The Metaverse is defined as a spatial computing platform ‫ هٌصة الحوصتلة الوكئًيتة‬that provides
digital experiences as an alternative to or a replica of the real world, along with key
civilizational aspects like social interactions, currency, trade, economy, and property
ownership – founded on bedrock of blockchain technology ‫ج صضث على أصئس جبٌية‬.

What's the difference between Metaverse and Virtual Reality?

Virtual Reality, or VR, is the technology for creating three-dimensional environments
with sight, touch, and sound elements. Contrary to the metaverse, which is a shared
virtual world owned by its users, with VR, a company or brand owns the VR system and
all of its related content.
What is Metaverse example?
The Sandbox is a metaverse example that lets users play and build virtual worlds with the
option to monetize their experiences ‫جحبيت التدل هتي ججتئ بمن‬, services, and products for sale or
trade. Sandbox allows users to own non-interchangeable in-game assets ‫األصتو غيتن البئبلتة‬
‫ للحلدن ف اللعلتة‬such as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ‫ النهتو غيتن البئبلتة لالصتحلدا‬and buy and sell
real estate ‫شناء وبي العبئ ات‬.

Figure 1 The way to Metaverse

Is the Metaverse real life?

The metaverse is an all-encompassing digital world ‫ عتئلن قوت شتئه‬that exists parallel to
the real world. But in 2022, experts still aren't sure whether the metaverse could evolve
into something similar ‫ال نزا الخلناء غين هح كدني هوئ إذا كئى الويحئفينس نوكي أى نحطو إلى ش ء هوئث‬.
In the case of the Facebook Metaverse, it is owned by the company founder and
CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

What is the main goal of the Metaverse?

The developers of the metaverse technology have the real goal to replace the digital
world (internet) by the virtual world. Internet users will be able to interact directly in
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How Metaverse will change the world?
The metaverse will increase teleworker camaraderie ‫ نتتئية وح النفئقيتتة بتتيي العتتئهليي عتتي بعتتد‬,
improve collaboration, speed up training, reduce the need for office space and make
work a happier place in general.

Do you need Virtual Reality for Metaverse?

Do You Need a VR Headset For the Metaverse?
No, by definition, the metaverse is any virtual space in which users interact within a
computer-generated environment. In this way, VR and the metaverse can come together for
an enhanced experience, but it is not a requirement to have both.
How to join the metaverse without a VR headset?
 Go to the Decentraland website and click Start Exploring in the top-right corner.
 You have two options: Play as a guest or Play using your wallet.
 If you play as a guest, the game will now load.
Users can join the metaverse freely at any time, from anywhere in the world and in doing
so there's always continuity to their experience. A metaverse will evolve over time based
on the shared contributions of its users, like the content and experiences designed by them.

Types of Metaverse
In traditional type of the metaverse, there are two forms – web2 & web3 metaverse. This
type of metaverse functions on a centralized system where a central organization controls
user data access. It means that there is no mechanism of blockchain integration in these
metaverse.

What do people do in the Metaverse?

Things you would do in the metaverse but not in real life worldwide 2021. Trying extreme
sports is the most popular thing that people would do in the metaverse but not in real life.
Other such activities include altering one's consciousness with VR instead of intoxicants, or
creating an alter ego.

Why Metaverse is the future?

As those worlds become more immersive as part of the metaverse, it's only natural
data usage is going to increase. The metaverse promises to bring new levels of social
connection, mobility and collaboration to a world and it is certainly something to keep a
keen pulse on.
Will the Metaverse replace reality?
While some of this may involve virtual reality, it can also include more readily accessible
modes like smartphone-enabled augmented reality. While it is an improvement on what
came before, the metaverse still will be insufficient to replace the fidelity of the
physical world.

Can anyone build Metaverse?

Anyone can create a metaverse for their community, common interest group, shared
cause or for any reason for people to come together. Metaverse economies are powered
by crypto assets and experiences. For instance, crypto assets may be used to purchase
items at stores run by other users.

How does Metaverse look like?

Metaverse is basically the internet. But instead of going to websites, you go to real places—
where mixed reality glasses reveal otherwise invisible digital layers. That means your
living room could have a layer for watching a giant virtual TV.

Can you touch people in the Metaverse?

The biggest question many new users have when they enter the metaverse is “how do I
touch things?” The answer is, you just have to will it. If you want to pick up an object or
touch someone, you have to “try” to do it—and only if the other person consents to
being touched will your avatar's hand actually move ‫فبط إذا واف الشخص اآللن على لوضه صتو‬
‫جححنك ند الصو ة النهزنة الخئصة بك‬.
Through digital twins, metaverse will allow for replication of buildings, cities, and even
the earth to better understand our impact on the environment and help advance climate
science.