For whom the Metaverse is already bringing orders

The avatar looks quite similar to Fabian Rücker. Brown hair, square glasses, three-day beard. The Rücker avatar makes the same movements as the real Rücker, pointing his fingers at the screen, nodding, tilting his head. However, unlike the real 30-year-old, the avatar has no legs. The Metaverse isn't very good at legs yet, explains Rücker. The sensors on the data glasses that he is wearing on his nose in real life at this moment can record everything and translate it into digital data except for his legs. They're just too far down, the sensors can't see them.

If you want to talk to Rücker, you can do so not only face to face, by phone or with the usual video call providers Zoom or Teams, but also in the Metaverse, more precisely: in Horizon Workrooms, the online software tool for virtual conference rooms from Facebook , which is now officially called Meta. "If everyone had glasses on, it feels like you're really in the same room," says Rücker. It's much better than the usual poorly lit video calls, where you keep interrupting each other or being strangely silent. If Rücker had his way, conferences would always be held in the Metaverse. Then the future of work would lie in the 3D Internet.

That's what Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dreams of. Probably the world's biggest fan of the Metaverse has now renamed his entire group to Meta. This Tuesday he invites the world to the big Meta Connect conference, where he wants to explain why the Metaverse is more than a bubble that is about to burst. If Zuckerberg is to be believed, the Metaverse is the next big thing, an evolution of the internet that will revolutionize how we all live and work. It's supposed to be a kind of three-dimensional internet that integrates with the real world. Each user then marches through the metaverse with special glasses on their nose and represented by an avatar and operates the websites, which will then no longer be boring sites, but their own interconnected worlds, by voice command or by waving their hands. If you want to talk to Rücker, you can do so not only face to face, by phone or with the usual video call providers Zoom or Teams, but also in the Metaverse, more precisely: in Horizon Workrooms, the online software tool for virtual conference rooms from Facebook , which is now officially called Meta. 
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