Stepping into the Metaverse

The rise of the metaverse represents a change in the way humans communicate and interact with each other. The metaverse is becoming increasingly popular and its technology stack is beginning to mature; while the gaming and entertainment industries are seen as major beneficiaries of the metaverse's development, for businesses the metaverse offers additional benefits beyond the communication technology that is so important in the new epidemic era. The Hong Kong Trade Development Council points out that participants in the traditional economy can enhance security through blockchain technology; conduct corporate marketing through virtual space; trade assets through the metaverse platform; and use the metaverse as an extension of social media to give users an "immersive" virtual social experience.

The metaverse is another new frontier for the creative industry. Practitioners will be challenged to adapt and create as they build virtual worlds, design digital avatars, create and deploy NFTs, and develop blockchains and smart contracts. The metaverse is a cross-disciplinary technological field, and its development involves the synthesis of many existing creative technologies, including computer graphics, 3D modeling, video editing and compositing, special effects and pre-visualization of films, 2D animation, professional 3D animation, etc.